Linor Lens

Linor Linza (present. Name Elena Charnaya , 1964 , BSSR ) - Russian artist, conceptualist, book artist. Since 1982 he has been living and working in St. Petersburg. Creates books of the artist, objects of environment and consciousness. Book concepts are ahead of form. Working materials: cloth, cardboard, wood, copper wire, and also: temporality, chronality, holidays , symbols . Uses the ideological panorama from cosmism to conceptualism. Own world view calls t-cosmism. In art-concepts it comes into contact with the problem of time and futurology , it develops a planetary calendar project. He proposes to create a new state symbol of the Russian Federation with the emblems of the First Sputnik and the Vostok ship. Criticizes the lack of objectivity in the form of the official name of a citizen of the Russian Federation. Conducts ideological performances, presentations, exhibitions of copyrighted books and objects. Participates in public and academic conferences. Member of the Russian Philosophical Society. Member of the Professional Union of Artists of Russia.

Linor Lens
Birth name	Elena Charnaya
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Style	conceptual art
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Basic concepts

• February 29 , planetary feast (1996).
• Tempo / Cosmo / Psy / Info Era, art chronology (2002).
• Luxe (ongoing project) (2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016).

Some ideas

• Punk Asteroid Subtheory (sarcastic analogy) (1999)
• Von Nagarjuna (philosophical sketch based on Buddhism) (2006)
• Improve the Quality of Illusions (update of state symbols of the Russian Federation) (2013)

Luxe calendar and other works are in collections.

• Russian National Library (St. Petersburg, Russia)
• Museum of the Book of the RSL (Moscow, Russia)
• All-Russian State Library of Foreign Literature (Moscow, Russia)
• Novosibirsk University Library (Novosibirsk, Russia)
• National Academic Library (Astana, Kazakhstan)
• National Library of Belarus (Minsk, Belarus)
• Saxon State Library (Dresden, Germany)
• Stanford University Library (USA)
• Tokyo University Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology (Tokyo, Japan)
• State Library of Victoria (Melbourne, Australia)
• Kandinsky Library, Center Pompidou (Paris, France)
• National Library of Scotland (Edinburgh, Scotland)
• Library of the University of Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland)