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Kurasov Sergei Vladimirovich

Kurasov S.V.

Kurasov Sergei Vladimirovich, Doctor of Arts, Professor, Rector, Stroganov Russian State University of Art and Industry.

Biography:

In 1989 he entered the Moscow Higher School of Applied Arts and studied at the Department of Art Design of the Industrial Art Faculty; in 1995 graduated from the Stroganov Moscow State Art and Applied Arts Institute with a degree in design. His mentors were A.S. Kvasov, K.A. Kondratieva, A.A. Dubrovin.

In 2000 S.V. Kurasov defended his thesis for the degree of PhD in Art Criticism called "Transport design of the 20-30s: Socio-cultural and artistic-imaginative features of shaping". In 2004, he got the academic title of Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Design, and in 2008 became a Professor in the same Department.

S.V. Kurasov has more than 24 years of work experience and 15 years of pedagogical career. In 1995, Sergei Vladimirovich began his career as a lecturer, and then as a senior lecturer in the Design Department. In 2002, he established and headed new Environmental Design Department at the university. He devoted more than 10 years of his professional life to leadership: since 2006 he has been Vice-Rector for Additional Education, since 2007 worked as Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs, from 2011 to the present he is the Rector of Moscow State Stroganov Academy of Design and Applied Arts. For many years Sergei Vladimirovich combined his leadership roles and pedagogical work with the positions of Academic Secretary of the Dissertation Council and Chairman of the Exhibition Committee of the university. From 2003 to 2007 he was the chairman of the State Attestation Commission of the Ulyanovsk State University, in 2004 he took the same position of the Krasnoyarsk Art Institute, and in Krasnodar University of Culture and Art in 2005.

As the head of "Primitive art of the peoples living in the cradles of civilizations" line of research at the Russian Geographical Society, S.V. Kurasov took part in many expeditions: to South America, to study the object environment of the ancient Mayan civilizations, the Inca Empire, and the biological world of the jungle and tributaries of the Amazon, Rio Negro, Orinoco, etc.; to Oceania, to collect the ethnographic material in the tribes of Papua New Guinea and other islands; to Africa, with the purpose of the archaeological search and anthropological research of ancient remains in volcanic deserts, and to study the origins of the creation of the form and decor of the dwellings of African tribes; to the countries of Southeast Asia, to study Chinese life and the wisdom of Tibetan philosophy, etc. As participant of the Neman research group, he made a research on the unexplained phenomena in places of anomalous activity of the planet.

The results of the expeditionary work of Sergei Vladimirovich affected his creative, scientific and pedagogical activities. Combined with the introduction of innovative educational technologies at the Department of Environmental Design, it expanded and enriched the scope of his project assignments. His art works were shown at personal exhibitions in Russia, Germany, Poland, France, etc., and were many times awarded in various competitions. S.V. Kurasov is a laureate of the "Victoria" – Russian national prize in design (2000); a diploma winner of the FIDexpo'2001 award (2001); a laureate of "Buyan-Ostrov", the VIII International Festival of Contemporary Art in Sochi (2004); a laureate of "Perspektiva", the International Competition of Design Projects; a laureate of "Young Palette of Russia" Exhibition (2008), etc.

S.V. Kurasov is the author and co-author of about 100 research and artistic works, including monographs on ethnographic design; the author of numerous publications in art history, design and ethnography; one of the authors of a manual on survival methods in extreme environments, and the video encyclopedia called "Unknown Planet" for the Foundation of Russian Geographical Society, etc.

Sergei Vladimirovich Kurasov is a member of the Union of Designers of Russia, a member of the Union of Artists of Russia, a member of the Union of Artists of Moscow, a full member of the Russian Geographical Society, Vice-President of the Foundation for Ethnographic Research ("On the Edge of the Worlds") at the Russian Geographical Society, a member of the Interdepartmental Commisson for the Settlement of Disagreements Arising from Transfer of Religious Property to Religious Organizations. His wide range of interests includes small aviation, skiing, and instruction in diving.

The awards of S.V. Kurasov include the gratitude of the President of the Russian Federation, diplomas, certificates, badges of honor "Rector of the Year 2012" and "Rector of the Year 2013", the title of Honorary Worker of the Higher Professional Education of the Russian Federation" of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation. He won a gold medal of Lev Nikolaev (2016) and a medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow".

Main Research Papers:

Main Art Works:

"Hot African Summer" (2007), "The Flavor of Almost Russian village. Africa" (2007, oil on canvas, 60x90), "The Island of No Return Anomaly" (2007, oil on canvas, 60x90), "Winter Sound of City Trees" (2006, oil on canvas, 80x60), "Messengers of Light" (1999, oil on canvas, 80x60), "Amazon Fashionista" (2003, oil on canvas, 48x70), "Former American POW Camp in the Tropical Paradise of Vietnam" (2000, oil on canvas, 60x80), "The Way to the Top" (canvas, acrylic, mixed media, 2010), "Snowy Pass" (canvas, acrylic, mixed media, 2010), "Winter Mountains Melody" (Canvas, acrylic, mixed media, 2010), "Another Reality" (canvas, acrylic, mixed technique, 2010), "Water of Life in the Sacred Lake" (canvas, acrylic, mixed media, 2010), etc.

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