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Semchenko Pavel
Semchenko Pavel Olegovich (15/06/1967) changed many locations in his childhood. His school years were spent in Leningrad, Kirishi, Prague, Baku, in the village Kadui, Cherepovets District, Vologda region. Pavel studied in Leningrad Intermediate Art School, finished the courses of The Mukhina Leningrad Higher Arts and Crafts College, The Serov Art School and The Russian Academy of Art. Also Pavel got a speciality of the mason and the decorator in a “well-known” Art Restoration Professional School №61 in Leningrad. Pavel always was fond of reading of the Soviet magazines such as “The Science and Technics”, “The Young Technician”, “Technics of Youth”, “Model-designer”, “Technics Horizons”, visited lessons of plane modeling and karting in the of pioneers palaces and admired Perelman`s books. The innate impressionability and natural ability to keep in mind big figures would push the young man to all sort of adventures. In 1988 Pavel got to know Boris J.Ponizovsky, the brightest mystificator and the theatre theorist in the 70th – 80th. A couple of years Pavel O. Semchenko was an actor of the theater “YES-NO”, but nevertheles continued his painting practice. Than together with V.Vasiliev and M.Isaev he created a theatre group “AKHE” on the territory of the first art squat “Pushkinskaya 10”. At this moment Pavel is still a member of the ART CENTRE. From this point all creative realizations has been connected with AKHE theatre. The spectrum of these realizations is wide: installations, sculptures, mural paintings on walls in public institutions, films, performances, exhibitions, illustrations and even dance. The activity of AKHE since 1996 has shifted towards theatre and Pavel O.Semchenko as a part of the group has visited practically all large festivals of the country in Russia and Europe, both in America and Asia.
Arts, general
Applied arts •
Visual arts
Graphic Arts • Painting • Graphic design • Video Art • Fiction film • Performance art • Installation • Other visual arts •
Performing arts
Acting • Directing • Light design • Set design • Costume design • Performance art • Puppetry •
Music
Sound art •
Special groups
Youth • Multicultural / diversity • Other •
Other culture
Environmental art • Net Art •
Photo by Akhe Theatre (2015)
Region
Helsinki • Other capital city area •
Communication language
English • Russian •
Website
akhe.ru