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Pavlo Kerestey
Pavlo Kerestey is a Ukrainian born German artist and painter. He often works with the artist Susanne Clausen under the name Szuper Gallery, creating multimedia pieces and performances. Participant of the Ukrainian New Wave. Life and work Kerestey was born in Uzhhorod, Ukraine, and graduated from The Lviv National Academy of Arts in 1984. After working in Moscow during the 80s and in the Parisian Commune; an infamous underground post-Soviet artist community in Kyiv in the early 90s, he represented the Ukrainian New Wave as a prolific artist. The commune was known as "a testing ground for a model of an unofficial artist run production - thinking and living space after the collapse of the Soviet-Union". In the late 1990s he left Kyiv to work in Munich and later in London. He is regarded as a significant contributor to contemporary Ukrainian art, described as one of the "Top 25 urrentUkrainian artists" having exhibited at the exhibition 'Contemporary Ukrainian Artists' at the Saa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukraine
Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian invasion, it was the eighth-most populous country in Europe, with a population of around 41 million people. It is also bordered by Belarus to the north; by Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; and by Romania and Moldova to the southwest; with a coastline along the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov to the south and southeast. Kyiv is the nation's capital and largest city. Ukraine's state language is Ukrainian; Russian is also widely spoken, especially in the east and south. During the Middle Ages, Ukraine was the site of early Slavic expansion and the area later became a key centre of East Slavic culture under the state of Kievan Rus', which emerged in the 9th century. The state eventually disintegrated into rival regional po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenny Scharf
Kenny Scharf (born November 23, 1958) is an American painter known for his participation in New York City's interdisciplinary East Village art scene during the 1980s, alongside Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring. Scharf's do-it-yourself practice spanned painting, sculpture, fashion, video, performance art, and street art. Growing up in post-World War II Southern California, Scharf was fascinated by television and the futuristic promise of modern design. His works often includes pop culture icons, such as the Flintstones and the Jetsons, or caricatures of middle-class Americans in an apocalyptic science fiction setting. Life and career Born in Los Angeles, Scharf moved to Manhattan, earning a BFA in painting at the School of Visual Arts in 1980. In the East Village of the 1980s, Scharf began his trademark Cosmic Caverns, immersive black light and Day-Glo paint installations that also function as ongoing disco parties. The first was known as the "Cosmic Closet" and was insta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Institute Of Contemporary Arts
The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is an artistic and cultural centre on The Mall in London, just off Trafalgar Square. Located within Nash House, part of Carlton House Terrace, near the Duke of York Steps and Admiralty Arch, the ICA contains galleries, a theatre, two cinemas, a bookshop and a bar. Bengi Unsal became the director in 2022. History The ICA was founded by Roland Penrose, Peter Watson, Herbert Read, Peter Gregory, Geoffrey Grigson and E. L. T. Mesens in 1946. The ICA's founders intended to establish a space where artists, writers and scientists could debate ideas outside the traditional confines of the Royal Academy. The model for establishing the ICA was the earlier Leeds Arts Club, founded in 1903 by Alfred Orage, of which Herbert Read had been a leading member. Like the ICA, this too was a centre for multi-disciplinary debate, combined with avant-garde art exhibition and performances, within a framework that emphasised a radical social outlook. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pavlo Makov
Pavlo Mykolaiovych Makov (born August 28, 1958, in Leningrad) is a Ukrainian artist. He is a Member of the Royal Society of Painters and Graphic Artists of Great Britain, a Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, and a Laureate of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine (2018). Biography He was born on August 28, 1958, in Leningrad in a family of doctors. When Makov was five years old, his parents moved to Ukraine, where he lived for some time in Rivne, Kyiv, and Simferopol.Маков Павло. Реальність завжди сильніша за будь-яку мистифікацію // ART Ukraine. — 2010. — 24 листопада. Процитовано 25-03-2012. He studied at an art school for three years. Until the eighth grade, he was mainly interested in biology and literature. In 1974, he entered the Crimean Art School named after MS Samokish in Simferopol, which he graduated in 1979. From 1977 to 1978 he studied at the S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oleksandr Rojtburd
Oleksandr Rojtburd ( uk, Олександр Анатолійович Ройтбурд; 14 October 1961, Odesa, USSR – 8 August 2021, Kyiv, Ukraine) was a participant of the Ukrainian New Wave and co-founder of the theory of the Ukrainian Transavantgard. He worked as a painter and installation artist, among other things with video and photo projects. He belongs to the first wave of post-independence, post-Soviet, and post-traditional Ukrainian artists. Biography Olexander Rojtburd was born in Odesa Odesa (also spelled Odessa) is the third most populous city and municipality in Ukraine and a major seaport and transport hub located in the south-west of the country, on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea. The city is also the administrative ... in 1961. He graduated from the art and graphic faculty of the Odesa Pedagogical Institute in 1983. With a strong presence at the Ukrainian cultural landscape, he was an Odesa-born, Ukrainian-Jewish contemporary artist. In the e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bonobo
The bonobo (; ''Pan paniscus''), also historically called the pygmy chimpanzee and less often the dwarf chimpanzee or gracile chimpanzee, is an endangered great ape and one of the two species making up the genus '' Pan,'' the other being the common chimpanzee (''Pan troglodytes''). While bonobos are now recognized as a distinct species in their own right, they were initially thought to be a subspecies of chimpanzee (''Pan troglodytes)'' due to the physical similarities between the two species. Taxonomically, the members of the chimpanzee/bonobo subtribe Panina (composed entirely by the genus '' Pan'') are collectively termed ''panins''. The bonobo is distinguished by relatively long legs, pink lips, dark face, tail-tuft through adulthood, and parted long hair on its head. The bonobo is found in a area of the Congo Basin in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central Africa. The species is frugivorous and inhabits primary and secondary forests, including seasonally inundated sw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Budapest
Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population of 1,752,286 over a land area of about . Budapest, which is both a city and county, forms the centre of the Budapest metropolitan area, which has an area of and a population of 3,303,786; it is a primate city, constituting 33% of the population of Hungary. The history of Budapest began when an early Celtic settlement transformed into the Roman town of Aquincum, the capital of Lower Pannonia. The Hungarians arrived in the territory in the late 9th century, but the area was pillaged by the Mongols in 1241–42. Re-established Buda became one of the centres of Renaissance humanist culture by the 15th century. The Battle of Mohács, in 1526, was followed by nearly 150 years of Ottoman rule. After the reconquest of Buda in 1686, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felix Schramm
Felix Schramm (born 1970 in Hamburg) is a German artist who lives and works in Düsseldorf. Schramm's artwork revolves around displacement, which the sculptor addresses in different visual forms within his work. His understanding of sculpture takes the dialectics thereof as a point of departure, from which he generates his modes of spatially oriented work (installation / spatial intervention, sculpture, collage). Career After studying sculpture at the Academie Di Belle Arti Di Firenze in Italy and at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under Jannis Kounellis and Walther Nikkels, study visits abroad in Tokyo and the Villa Massimo in Rome followed. Engaging with the relations of space and body has led to different approaches in Felix Schramm's sculptural work. The artist works in groups of works, which he arranges systematically through a conceptual allocation. The group "Intersection" is composed of his sculptural, three-dimensional work, with which he undertakes positings in space. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oleg Tistol
Oleh Mykhaylovych Tistol ( uk, Олег Михайлович Тiстол, born on 25 August 1960) is a Ukrainian artist, a representative of Ukrainian neo-baroque and one of the leaders of the Ukrainian New Wave. Biography Oleh Tistol was born in the urban-type settlement of Vradiivka, Mykolaiv Oblast to scientist-agriculturist Mykhaylo Fedorovych Tistol. In 1970 his mother, Bolharina (Tistol) Valentyna Serhiivna obtains a position of the regional management Head of culture. Oleh moves with his parents to Mykolaiv. He starts his art education in 1972 at the children's art school which has founded in Mykolaiv on his mother's initiative. In 1974 he enters Kiev Republican Art School, the Department of Painting, and moves to Kiev. In 1978-79 he works as a designer in Mykolaiv's Khudfond (Art Foundation). Between 1979–1984 Tistol studies at the Lviv State Institute of Decorative and Applied arts. In 1984 - 1986 he serves in the Army in military unit Makarov-1 where he gets acquainte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Czupryn
David (; , "beloved one") (traditional spelling), , ''Dāwūd''; grc-koi, Δαυΐδ, Dauíd; la, Davidus, David; gez , ዳዊት, ''Dawit''; xcl, Դաւիթ, ''Dawitʿ''; cu, Давíдъ, ''Davidŭ''; possibly meaning "beloved one". was, according to the Hebrew Bible, the third king of the United Kingdom of Israel. In the Books of Samuel, he is described as a young shepherd and harpist who gains fame by slaying Goliath, a champion of the Philistines, in southern Canaan. David becomes a favourite of Saul, the first king of Israel; he also forges a notably close friendship with Jonathan, a son of Saul. However, under the paranoia that David is seeking to usurp the throne, Saul attempts to kill David, forcing the latter to go into hiding and effectively operate as a fugitive for several years. After Saul and Jonathan are both killed in battle against the Philistines, a 30-year-old David is anointed king over all of Israel and Judah. Following his rise to power, Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erik Sommer
Erik Sommer (born February 25, 1978) is an American contemporary artist and curator based in New York City. Best known for his weathered paintings and cement installations, his work is often compared to abandoned buildings, eroding stone or forgotten structures. The layers of his paintings peel off the supports, while his cement installations recreate scenes that feel to have been recently abandoned. Career Sommer has been exhibiting in both solo and group shows since 2010. ''Pray To Fallen Skies,'' his first solo UK show, opened at Rook & Raven in London in November 2012. Consisting of large all-white canvases, the work was exhibited in separate viewing rooms; access to these rooms was limited so that viewers could privately immerse themselves with the work. ''And Riding Clouds'', which opened in New York City in April 2013, featured Sommer's first cement installation. ''Apt. 4B'' consisted of found objects collected throughout the city, which were then cemented and arrang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aljoscha (artist)
Aljoscha (; 1974 in Hlukhiv, USSR, now Ukraine), born Oleksii Potupin (), is a Ukrainian visual artist known for conceptual installations and sculptures based on ideas of bioism, biofuturism and bioethical abolitionism. Prizes * 2008 1. Prize in sculpture, XXXV Premio Bancaja Valencia, Spain. * 2009 Art prize "Schlosspark 2009", Cologne, Germany. Selected solo exhibitions * 2021 :"Vivimos el mejor de los tiempos. Estamos comenzando a construir el Paraíso" (Madrid, Spain) :"Puedo-alimentar-a-los-monos-de-gibraltar"(Madrid, Spain) :"Bioethische Abweichung als Grundprinzip der Paradiesgestaltung“, Johanneskirche, Düsseldorf, Germany * 2020 :"Paradise Engineering Is an Epiphany of New Bioethics", MZKM at LAGA 2020, Kamp-Lintfort, Germany :"Miraculous Draught", St. John the Divine, New York, USA :"Durchbruch des Seins in den unbegrenzten Freiraum der Möglichkeiten", Galerie Martina Kaiser, Cologne, Germany * 2019 :"Bioethische Funktionslust", Galerie von Braunbehren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
