Illya Chichkan (Ukrainian: Ілля Аркадійович Чичкан, born 29 August 1967 in Kiev, Ukraine) 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.[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

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Illya Chichkan is the grandson of Leonid Chichkan [uk], 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

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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

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References

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  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. ^ a b "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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