Illya Chichkan
Illya Chichkan (Template:Langx, born 29 August 1967 in Kiev, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian artist. He is a representative of the art Ukrainian New Wave movement, which emerged in the 1990s. He is a third generation artist.[1] He lives and works in Berlin, and Kyiv, as a painter, author of installations, and develops photo and video-projects.[2][3][4]
Early life
Illya Chichkan is the grandson of Template:Interlanguage link, a Ukrainian socialist realist painter and professor at the Kyiv Art Institute. His father, Arkadii Chychkan, was a Ukrainian nonconformist artist. He participated in "The exhibition of 13" (1979), a manifestation of Ukrainian painters' resistance to social realism.[5]
Personal life
In 2014, Chichkan along with his wife Masha Shubina, visited India. During winter, he paints there.[6]
Chichkan has a daughter, Sasha. She is a co-author of Psychodarwinism.[7] In a dialogue with Marat Gelman with Kostyantyn Doroshenko they discussed the exhibition New Psychodarwinism. The artist took it as a basis for famous paintings of the Tretyakov Gallery depicting the main characters as monkeys. Analyzing the artist's blasphemous gesture Doroshenko remarked: "Imperial totalitarian society puts art on a pedestal as something that rises above life and directs it… « Psychodarwinism» - a proposal to abandon elitism and hierarchies.».[8] Chychkan's children, David and Oleksandra, are Ukrainian artists.[5]
Literature
- Perscha Kollektija Exhibition Catalogue, Kyiv, 2003
- From Red to Yellow to Blue, Ludmila Bereznitsky, Kyiv, 2004
- Illya & Sasha Chichkan. PsychoDarwinism. Back to the Roods : exhibition catalogue 23.11–14.12.2017. Kyiv : [Golden Section], 2017. 46 p. Template:In lang
- [1] Conversation Marat Gelman with an art critic. New "Psychodarwinism" by Ilya Chichkan.Zima magazine.17.02.2021
References
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