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			The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MCA) will hold the "Antoine Vidocle: Immortality for Everyone" from April 27 to July 21 at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art's Seoul Exhibition Hall. 

Anton Vidokle (65~) is a Moscow-based writer and filmmaker who focuses on New York and Berlin. He is also the founder and editor of e-flux, a global online art information platform. The exhibition introduces the third installment of the "Russian Cosmism" series he produced from 2014 to 2017 under the theme of Russian cosmology.

The second installment of the series, <The Communist Revolution was caused by the Sun> (2015), was presented at the Gwangju Biennale in 2016 and won the "No Snow" Award for its experimental spirit in terms of visual beauty, sound and cosmology. The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art will collect all three works, including the works, and present them in one place at the exhibition.

Russian cosmology was developed by Nikolai Fedorov (1829-1903), a 19th century Russian thinker, and philosophers, scientists and revolutionaries. Russian cosmologists have argued that humans and the universe are inseparable and saw that humans can evolve with the universe and overcome death and move on to an immortal world. Russian cosmology was banned after the Soviet Revolution in 1917 and resumed before and after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Until recently, Russian cosmology has been actively discussed as a philosophical alternative to capitalism and Western rationalism, individualism and materialism. 

Anton Vidocle's first film, "This Is the Universe (2014), traces what Utopia he has pursued based on his writings and papers written by Nikolai Fedorov, the founder of Russian cosmology. The second book, <The Communist Revolution was caused by the Sun> (2015), introduces Alexander Chizhevsky's cosmology, in which great changes occur periodically in humans as the sun changes its surface. The last book, Resurrection and Immortality for All (2017) examines the museum as a place of revival, a key concept in cosmology. Anton Vidocle's Part III on Russian cosmology suggests that their views and attitudes in pursuing Utopia are not reckless but are the points we need today. 

The exhibition hall will be accompanied by a chronology of Russian cosmology's history to help visitors understand it. At the end of June, Anton Vidocle will hold a meeting with Kim Soo-hwan, a professor of Russian studies at Korea Foreign University, in Seoul.

The exhibition, which offers a three-dimensional view of Anton Vidocle's experimental works and related materials based on Russian philosophy, literature and space science in the early 20th century, will provide an opportunity to access the latest discourse of contemporary art along with the museum's collection, said Yoon Beom-mo, director of the National Museum of Contemporary Art.