Volyazlovsky and all his creative life
09.03-09.26
A large exhibition of Kherson artist Stas Volyazlovsky (1971-2018) is opening on September 3 at 18:00. "Volyazlovsky and all his creative life" is a large-scale retrospective exhibition that shows all the media with which the artist managed to work.
Curators: Victoria Bavykina, Alexander Solovyov and Elena Afanasieva.
The exhibition will guide the viewer through different stages of Stas Volyazlovsky's work - from his ceramic works, in which only the author's style was laid, through experiments with photography and graphics, embodied in friendly collaboration with "NASH" Dnepropetrovsk magazine, through writing household and erotic fairy tales and essays through work with textile material (which Volyazlovsky himself called "rags") to video experiments.
Stas Volyazlovsky called his art penis art, “her” art in different periods, but more often name is chanson art. "Chanson art is my reflection on the world I exist in, with its interests, problems, fears, religion, new cultural challenges, with its television and programs filled with stupid advertising, dismemberment, crime, pornography, TV series and politics, with its press and internet… ».
Curators note, that "his works are literal, straightforward, trickster and at the same time very close, and even folk: accessible art materials, widespread use of household items, understandable topics without the sometimes excessive conceptualization and intellectual pathos characteristic of modern art. Volyazlovsky's art is often tried to be assigned to one of the already established, "official" categories: the art of outsiders, art brut, primitivism, and so on. The national art tradition requires marking his practice, placing it in a certain niche, although it seems that such an approach, as well as the need for strict categorization in general, is already questionable and outdated”.
Stas Volyazlovsky is a member of the "Totem" association and hop-glam of the "Rapany" group. He was born in 1971 in Kherson, where he worked all his life, deliberately not changing his place of residence. Stas is laureate of the Kazimir Malevich Art Prize, Scholar of the Program of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland Gaude Polonia, permanent participant of the "Biryuchy" International Symposium of Contemporary Art. During his life he had exhibitions in France, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Poland, Germany and other countries. The works are stored in private collections and museums, including the Georges Pompidou Center of Contemporary Art (France) and the Arsenal Gallery (Poland).
Schedule of events of the parallel program
05.09
17.00 Curatorial tour by Victoria Bavikina
18.00 Presentation of the book "Volyazlovsky. Stereoscopically"
09.09
18.00 Artist-talk Alevtina Kakhidze "As an artist about artist"
17.09
18.00 Kherson fables by Elena and Maxim Afanasyev
18.09
18.00 Curatorial tour by Elena Afanasieva
26.09
17.00 Curatorial tour by Victoria Bavikina
Video about the exhibition from Grynyov Art Collection
Video interview with the curators of the project from the MITEC portal
The project is supported by Grynyov Art Collection.
Project partners - Totem Cultural Development Center, Open Archive of Ukrainian Media Art, Karas Gallery, Ya Gallery Art Center, Kogutiak Foundation, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, Poland.
"Volyazlovsky and all his creative life" exhibition will last until September 26.
Free admission 18+
03.09 - 26.09
A large exhibition of Kherson artist Stas Volyazlovsky (1971-2018) is opening on September 3 at 18:00. "Volyazlovsky and all his creative life" is a large-scale retrospective exhibition that shows all the media with which the artist managed to work.
Curators: Victoria Bavykina, Alexander Solovyov and Elena Afanasieva.
The exhibition will guide the viewer through different stages of Stas Volyazlovsky's work - from his ceramic works, in which only the author's style was laid, through experiments with photography and graphics, embodied in friendly collaboration with "NASH" Dnepropetrovsk magazine, through writing household and erotic fairy tales and essays through work with textile material (which Volyazlovsky himself called "rags") to video experiments.
Stas Volyazlovsky called his art penis art, “her” art in different periods, but more often name is chanson art. "Chanson art is my reflection on the world I exist in, with its interests, problems, fears, religion, new cultural challenges, with its television and programs filled with stupid advertising, dismemberment, crime, pornography, TV series and politics, with its press and internet… ».
Curators note, that "his works are literal, straightforward, trickster and at the same time very close, and even folk: accessible art materials, widespread use of household items, understandable topics without the sometimes excessive conceptualization and intellectual pathos characteristic of modern art. Volyazlovsky's art is often tried to be assigned to one of the already established, "official" categories: the art of outsiders, art brut, primitivism, and so on. The national art tradition requires marking his practice, placing it in a certain niche, although it seems that such an approach, as well as the need for strict categorization in general, is already questionable and outdated”.
Stas Volyazlovsky is a member of the "Totem" association and hop-glam of the "Rapany" group. He was born in 1971 in Kherson, where he worked all his life, deliberately not changing his place of residence. Stas is laureate of the Kazimir Malevich Art Prize, Scholar of the Program of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland Gaude Polonia, permanent participant of the "Biryuchy" International Symposium of Contemporary Art. During his life he had exhibitions in France, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Poland, Germany and other countries. The works are stored in private collections and museums, including the Georges Pompidou Center of Contemporary Art (France) and the Arsenal Gallery (Poland).
Schedule of events of the parallel program
05.09
17.00 Curatorial tour by Victoria Bavikina
18.00 Presentation of the book "Volyazlovsky. Stereoscopically"
09.09
18.00 Artist-talk Alevtina Kakhidze "As an artist about artist"
17.09
18.00 Kherson fables by Elena and Maxim Afanasyev
18.09
18.00 Curatorial tour by Elena Afanasieva
26.09
17.00 Curatorial tour by Victoria Bavikina
Video about the exhibition from Grynyov Art Collection
Video interview with the curators of the project from the MITEC portal
The project is supported by Grynyov Art Collection.
Project partners - Totem Cultural Development Center, Open Archive of Ukrainian Media Art, Karas Gallery, Ya Gallery Art Center, Kogutiak Foundation, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, Poland.
"Volyazlovsky and all his creative life" exhibition will last until September 26.
Free admission 18+
03.09 - 26.09
A large exhibition of Kherson artist Stas Volyazlovsky (1971-2018) is opening on September 3 at 18:00. "Volyazlovsky and all his creative life" is a large-scale retrospective exhibition that shows all the media with which the artist managed to work.
Curators: Victoria Bavykina, Alexander Solovyov and Elena Afanasieva.
The exhibition will guide the viewer through different stages of Stas Volyazlovsky's work - from his ceramic works, in which only the author's style was laid, through experiments with photography and graphics, embodied in friendly collaboration with "NASH" Dnepropetrovsk magazine, through writing household and erotic fairy tales and essays through work with textile material (which Volyazlovsky himself called "rags") to video experiments.
Stas Volyazlovsky called his art penis art, “her” art in different periods, but more often name is chanson art. "Chanson art is my reflection on the world I exist in, with its interests, problems, fears, religion, new cultural challenges, with its television and programs filled with stupid advertising, dismemberment, crime, pornography, TV series and politics, with its press and internet… ».
Curators note, that "his works are literal, straightforward, trickster and at the same time very close, and even folk: accessible art materials, widespread use of household items, understandable topics without the sometimes excessive conceptualization and intellectual pathos characteristic of modern art. Volyazlovsky's art is often tried to be assigned to one of the already established, "official" categories: the art of outsiders, art brut, primitivism, and so on. The national art tradition requires marking his practice, placing it in a certain niche, although it seems that such an approach, as well as the need for strict categorization in general, is already questionable and outdated”.
Stas Volyazlovsky is a member of the "Totem" association and hop-glam of the "Rapany" group. He was born in 1971 in Kherson, where he worked all his life, deliberately not changing his place of residence. Stas is laureate of the Kazimir Malevich Art Prize, Scholar of the Program of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland Gaude Polonia, permanent participant of the "Biryuchy" International Symposium of Contemporary Art. During his life he had exhibitions in France, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Poland, Germany and other countries. The works are stored in private collections and museums, including the Georges Pompidou Center of Contemporary Art (France) and the Arsenal Gallery (Poland).
Schedule of events of the parallel program
05.09
17.00 Curatorial tour by Victoria Bavikina
18.00 Presentation of the book "Volyazlovsky. Stereoscopically"
09.09
18.00 Artist-talk Alevtina Kakhidze "As an artist about artist"
17.09
18.00 Kherson fables by Elena and Maxim Afanasyev
18.09
18.00 Curatorial tour by Elena Afanasieva
26.09
17.00 Curatorial tour by Victoria Bavikina
Video about the exhibition from Grynyov Art Collection
Video interview with the curators of the project from the MITEC portal
The project is supported by Grynyov Art Collection.
Project partners - Totem Cultural Development Center, Open Archive of Ukrainian Media Art, Karas Gallery, Ya Gallery Art Center, Kogutiak Foundation, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, Poland.
"Volyazlovsky and all his creative life" exhibition will last until September 26.
Free admission 18+
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