Illya Chichkan (Ukrainian: Ілля Аркадійович Чичкан, born 29 August 1967 in Kiev, Ukraine) is a representative of the art movement "Ukrainian New Wave", which developed in the 1990s. He is a third generation artist.[1] He lives and works in Berlin, Germany, and Kyiv, Ukraine, as a painter, author of installations, photo and video-projects.[2][3][4]
In 2014, Chichkan along with his wife Masha Shubina, had visited India, a trip of which he was dreaming since childhood. There, during winter season, he paints his paintings.[5]
Ilya Chichkan have a daughter, Sasha, a co-author of Psychodarwinism.[6] In a dialogue Marat Gelman with Kostyantyn Doroshenko they expressed interesting thoughts about the exhibition New «Psychodarwinism». The Ukrainian artist took it as a basis famous paintings of the Tretyakov Gallery grotesquely depicting the main characters in the form of 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.».[7]
Family
Illya Chichkan is the grandson of Leonid Chichkan, a Ukrainian socialist realist painter and professor at the Kyiv Art Institute. Illya Chichkan's father, Arkadii Chychkan, was a Ukrainian nonconformist artist, he participated in "The exhibition of 13" (1979), a prominent manifestation of Ukrainian painters' passive resistance against social realism. Illya Chychkan's children, David and Oleksandra, are also known as young contemporary Ukrainian artists.[8]
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. (in Ukrainian and English)
- [1] Conversation Marat Gelman with an art critic. New "Psychodarwinism" by Ilya Chichkan.Zima magazine.17.02.2021
References
- ^ Tatiana Kicenko (August 29, 2014). "Художник Илья Чичкан рассказал о спекуляциях на арт-рынке и портрете Путина" [Artist Ilya Chichkan spoke about speculations in the art market and Putin's portrait]. Capital. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
- ^ Aksinia Kurin (April 7, 2009). "Илья Чичкан: "Моя задача не шокировать публику, а разобраться в самом себе"". Ukrayinska Pravda (in Russian). Retrieved 22 May 2019.
- ^ Victoria Kim (July 11, 2014). "№9 Илья Чичкан". Forbes Ukraine (in Russian). Retrieved 22 May 2019.
- ^ Yanina Kud (July 4, 2011). "12 апостолов современного искусства". Forbes Ukraine (in Russian). Retrieved 22 May 2019.
- ^ "Inspiring places: путешествие в Индию Ильи Чичкана". Retrieved 22 May 2019.
- ^ Ul'yana Kupnovickaya (September 11, 2017). "С нарисованой иконы на людей глядят гиббоны" [With drawn icons gibbons look at people]. Komsomolskaya Pravda. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
- ^ Conversation Marat Gelman with an art critic. New "Psychodarwinism" by Illya Chichkan. Zima magazine 17.02.2021(in Rus.)
- ^ "Чичкан Илья". liga.net. Retrieved January 23, 2023.
External links
Media related to Illya Chichkan at Wikimedia Commons
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