Illya Chichkan

Illya Chichkan (Ukrainian: Ілля Аркадійович Чичкан, born 29 August 1967 in Kiev, Ukraine) is a Ukrainain 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 Leonid Chichkan, 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 Marat Gelman with Kostyantyn Doroshenko they discussed the exhibition New Psychodarwinism. The artist took it as a basis 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

References
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Victoria Kim (July 11, 2014). "№9 Илья Чичкан". Forbes Ukraine (in Russian). Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  4. Yanina Kud (July 4, 2011). "12 апостолов современного искусства". Forbes Ukraine (in Russian). Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  5. "Чичкан Илья". liga.net. Retrieved January 23, 2023.
  6. "Inspiring places: путешествие в Индию Ильи Чичкана". Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  7. 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.
  8. Conversation Marat Gelman with an art critic. New "Psychodarwinism" by Illya Chichkan. Zima magazine 17.02.2021(in Rus.)

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