Illya Chichkan (, born 29 August 1967 in
Kiev
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,
Ukraine
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) 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. He lives and works in
Berlin
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, and
Kyiv
Kyiv, also Kiev, is the capital and most populous List of cities in Ukraine, city of Ukraine. Located in the north-central part of the country, it straddles both sides of the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2022, its population was 2, ...
, as a painter, author of installations, and develops photo and video-projects.
Early life
Illya Chichkan is the grandson of , 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
Social realism is work produced by painters, printmakers, photographers, writers, filmmakers and some musicians that aims to draw attention to the real socio-political conditions of the working class as a means to critique the power structures ...
.
Personal life
In 2014, Chichkan along with his wife Masha Shubina, visited India. During winter, he paints there.
Chichkan has a daughter, Sasha. She is a co-author of ''Psychodarwinism''. In a dialogue with
Marat Gelman
Marat Aleksandrovich GelmanOfficial (in the passport) Latin-graphics spelling of his last name is Guelman as in French. (; born 24 December 1960) is a Russian collector, gallerist, and op-ed columnist. The former director of PERMM contemporar ...
with
Kostyantyn Doroshenko
Kostіantyn Doroshenko, ''Kostyantyn'' (; born 29 October 1972, in Kyiv, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian art critic, publicist, contemporary art curator, media manager, and radio host. Doroshenko is well known as a cultural and social journalist with wo ...
they discussed the exhibition New Psychodarwinism. The artist took it as a basis for famous paintings of the
Tretyakov Gallery
The State Tretyakov Gallery (; abbreviated ГТГ, ''GTG'') is an art gallery in Moscow, Russia, which is considered the foremost depository of Russian fine art in the world.
The gallery's history starts in 1856 when the Muscovite merchant Pavel ...
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.».
Conversation Marat Gelman with an art critic. New "Psychodarwinism" by Illya Chichkan. Zima magazine 17.02.2021
in Rus.) Chychkan's children, David and Oleksandra, are Ukrainian artists.
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
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], 2017. 46 p.
Conversation Marat Gelman
Marat Aleksandrovich GelmanOfficial (in the passport) Latin-graphics spelling of his last name is Guelman as in French. (; born 24 December 1960) is a Russian collector, gallerist, and op-ed columnist. The former director of PERMM contemporar ...
with an Kostyantyn Doroshenko, art critic. New "Psychodarwinism" by Ilya Chichkan.Zima magazine.17.02.2021
References
External links
werkstadt.mur.attaz.de
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1967 births
Living people
Artists from Kyiv