Babi Badalov born 18 June is an Azerbaijani visual artist. Since he lives and works in Paris , France. After serving two years in the Soviet Army, he moved to Leningrad now Saint Petersburg in , where he quickly became a leading underground artist and a member of the unofficial artists group the Association of Experimental Visual Arts [ ru ] TEII. Badalov participated in numerous art shows with the group in Russia and abroad.
In the late s, he met artists Vadim Ovchinnikov and Timur Novikov, members of the New Artists Group, and became involved in a variety of their projects and art campaigns. Badalov always found different ways of expressing his ideas through art objects , paintings , installations and live performances. He also tested himself on the movie set of avant-garde Russian film director Evgeniy Kondratiev.
Even though Russian is not his first language, [ 3 ] he won the Pushkinskaya 10 [ ru ] poetry contest. In , Badalov mysteriously disappeared from the Leningrad art scene and became a legendary figure, and an inspiration and a role model for younger generations of Russian artists. Today, Badalov continues to exhibit around the world and develop his new ideas. His latest concept was a series of ecological art objects called Dolls for Adults , where he isolated the plastic of nature inside his own clothes.
In , world-renowned Moscow -based art critic and curator Victor Misiano [ 4 ] invited Badalov to take part in a number of exhibitions, where he displayed his audio-visual projects. In , Badalov was granted asylum in France due to threats of an honor killing in Azerbaijan because of his homosexuality.
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