Vassily Tsagolov
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Vassily Tsagolov (* 1957 in Dihora), Nord Ossetien, Russland.
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[edit] Vita
In 1977 he starts his artistic education at the North Ossetian Art School in Vladikavkas and three years later attends the Ukrainian State Academy of Arts, at the Painting Department in Kiev from 1980-1986. He was a member of the Commune Paris Art Association and an important representative of Contemporary ukrainian Art. His paintings draw attention to their detached manner and combination of everyday and fantastic themes a specific "Gogol Spirit". In these works the artist meintains the doctrine that in modernization of figurative painting, serious changs are necessary not in form, but in the subject and charcter of the narration. His paintings are intentionally similar to the strict academic approach, since academism is neutral fro the point of view of formal experiments, which makes it possible for the artist to concentrate on the primary plot and narration. The field of concentrated view embraces the hypertrophied religiosity, the deepened eschatological moods, as well as the obsessions with the idea of existence of extraterrestrial civilizations, UFO´s, aliens. Those elements are interweaved into an ironic, fascinating symbiosis, which might be defined as specific paranormal realism. His works Love and Criminal Week are from the early expressive period of the artist, based on the "life" photographs constructed in a toy-reality. The main instruments are improvisational staging, optical illusions, which are shocking and mixed with documented reality. Aesthetization of violence is a sign of our time, which stimulates through its fatalism the erasing of boundaries within the moral "positive-negative".
[edit] Exhibitions
- 2006: Ukrainian X-Files - Optics of Orange Revolution, Guelman Gallery, Moscow, Russia
- 2004: Wandering Bullets, Guelman Gallery, Moscow, Russia
- 2000: Musefication, Soviart Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine
[edit] Group Exhibitions
- 2006: Russia2. Bad News from Russia, White Box, NY, USA
- 2004: FIAC. International Contemporary Art Fair, Paris, Frankreich
- 2001: Media Forum, International Film Festival, Moscow, Russia
- 2001: Iskusstwo 2000, Stadt Galerie, Rosenheim, Germany
- 2000: After the Wall, Ludwig Museum, Budapest and Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
- 1999: Pinacotheque, International Art Festival, Kiev, Ukraine
- 1999: Future is now Museum of Contemporary Art, Thagreb, Kroatien
- 1997: 3rd Cetinije Biennale, Art Museuem, Cetinije, Yugoslavia
[edit] Literature
- From Red to Yellow and Blue, Ludmila Bereznitsky, Kiev, 2004
- Perschaja Konnektija, Kiev, 2003