Lena Hades

Lena Hades (Russian Лена Хейдиз / Lena Cheidis; born October 2, 1959 in Kemerovo, Siberia) is a Russian painter and photographer.

Work

The most important work of Hades is the cycle of paintings Thus Spoke Zarathustra, dedicated to the poetic and philosophical masterpiece of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra. It consists of 40 oil paintings and watercolors, which are distributed over different museums, including the Tretyakov Gallery Moscow, the Pushkin Museum Moscow and the Moscow Museum of Modern Art. The cycle was also presented at the first Biennial of Moscow. Lena Hades has exhibited in more than 60 group and solo exhibitions in Russia and abroad and participated in major international exhibitions such as at the Triennial of Graphics in 2003 in Cracow and at the sixth International Month of Photography in Moscow Photo Biennale 2006.

The book Thus Spoke Zarathustra in German and Russian with 20 reproductions from the series of paintings was published in 2004 by the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences. This scholarly edition also contains chapters that are written by Jean -Christophe Ammann, Alexander and Olga Jakimowitsch Juschkowa. The oil paintings of the cycle are visual metaphors, they are not illustrations. You put the text on the language continues to plastically. Hades tries to interpret the Nietzsche text using the painting.

Quotes

• " Lena Hades imagery very often aware of striking because it her to " go boards, " the shake up, want to evoke. In this respect, nothing has changed on the task of the artist: He is the dervish who evokes less the collective memory as set in motion, but always from a consciousness and thinking of the present. Lena Hades is a dervish. " (Jean -Christophe Ammann ).

News

In June 2010 she was summoned to the Moscow court for a class action wg. alleged hate propaganda against the Russians in two of your works. The class action lawsuit was filed in 2008 and soon it will be possible to a process. (Sources: http://www.civicus.org/pg/world-democracy-day/1126-to-protect-freedom-of-expression-in-russia, http://www.kasparov.ru/material.php id = 4C17C25184737 )

• Friedrich Nietzsche: Thus Spake Zarathustra. Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 2004, ISBN 5-9540-0019-0.
• Giametta Sossio: Commento allo Zarathustra. Bruno Mondadori, Milan 2006, ISBN 88-424-9804-1.
• Friedrich Nietzsche: Dawn. Academic Project Publisher, Moscow 2007, ISBN 978-5-8291-0942-4.