Alzek Misheff

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Alzek Misheff (Dupniza, Bulgaria November 8, 1940) is a popular Bulgarian artist who is currently an Italian citizen. Misheff graduated in 1966 with a degree in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Sofia. In 1971 he left Bulgaria for Italy, where he currently lives and works in Milan.

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He is well known in the international art world for the project Swimming Across The Atlantic, which was executed in the swimming pool of the ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 in 1982 while travelling on the route between London and New York.^[1] In the book Europa-America - The different avant-gardes producted by Franco Maria Ricci in 1976, Achille Bonito Oliva inserts Misheff between the more 30 representative artists in Europe.^[2] Between its more meaningful performances it sure detaches Music of the sky, concert-installation of 1979 in the Public square of the Dome of Milan. Replicated in 1979 in Mills College of San Francisco and University of California Irvine (near Los Angeles).

He was invited to the Biennial of Venice of 2000, where he realized Proliferante truth of the feeling (Proliferante verità del sentimento): dipped in full transparent water cylinder he has played with Lightning II (one controller with infrared) and has directed quintetto "The Swimmers" (Maurizio Barbetti to viola, Rocco Parisi to the clarinetto basso, Riccardo Sinigaglia to the pianoforte, Maurizio Dehò to violino). In May 2005, at the Pavilion of Contemporary Art of Milan, PAC, he directed the "Concert for Stradivari violin, pianoforte Disklavier and quartet of cellular-phones-violins" with the violinist Eugene Sarbu, winner of the Paganini prize and Emiliano Bucci, sound engineer, pianist, electronic composer.