Alzek Misheff

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Alzek Misheff
Portrait of Alzek Misheff in one of his artworks.^[1]
Birth name	Alzek Misheff
Born	October 8, 1940
Nationality	Italy
Field	Performer, painter and musician.
Famous works	Swimming across the Atlantic^[2], Music From the Sky.

Alzek Misheff (October 8, 1940) is a popular Italian artist born in Dupniza, Bulgaria who moved to Italy fleeing Soviet communist persecution and is currently now 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, Italy and is regarded as one of the 30 most important European artists.^[3]

1 Career
2 Current Projects
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Career

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 traveling on the route between London and New York. In the book Europa-America - The different avant-gardes produced by Franco Maria Ricci in 1976, Achille Bonito Oliva inserts Misheff between the more 30 representative artists in Europe. Between his more meaningful performances 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 Venice Biennial 2000, where he realized Proliferating Truth of Sentiment (Proliferante verità del sentimento): dived in full transparent water cylinder he has played with Lightning II (an infrared controller) and he has directed his quintet "The Swimmers" (Maurizio Barbetti - viola, Rocco Parisi- bass clarinet, Riccardo Sinigaglia- piano, Maurizio Dehò- violin)^[4]. In May 2005, at the Pavilion of Contemporary Art of Milan, PAC, he directed his "Concert for Stradivari violin, pianoforte Disklavier and quartet of mobilephones-violins" with the violinist Eugene Sarbu, Paganini prize winner.