Ilya Grishaev. Ilya Grishaev I was also pushed to write by our Voronezh artist Sergey Gorshkov, who on social networks really admired the work of Ilya Grishaev

At the end of November I read the message of my colleagues from the online edition "Culture VRN":

“On November 28, the Voronezh Center for Contemporary Art hosted the opening of a personal exhibition Ilya Grishaeva "Her slogan goes on." About ten people came to the opening. However, not everyone managed to understand the author's intention.

The discovery began with the artist's story that he was located between two cities ( Perm and St. Petersburg), and about his work.

“I call it graphics, for me it’s writing and language that somehow correlate with modernity,” Ilya Grishaev shared.

The exhibition itself includes three rooms with abstract fresco patterns on the walls of the author. As the artist himself notes, he is inspired by everything in the world - from mathematics to field notes, anthropological research. The highlight of the exhibition is that the author draws “ in place».

- I try to select the murals for the situation, this is not what I prepared at home. This is all done here, and for me this is a key moment, - the artist comments.

After a short introduction by the author, everyone could walk through the halls and take a closer look at his work.

- Extremely strange exposure. An art object should have either a powerful message and meaning, or it should catch the eye with its beauty, and ideally, both together. Well, this exhibition would not have one of the points, there would be none. Even the author himself does not really know why and what he is doing, shared his impressions student of the Faculty of Journalism Alexander Nikiforov.

Yes, this exposition is not suitable for everyone, but anyone can visit it from November 29 to December 10 and personally try to understand the author's intention. Success to you. "

What I saw in this report made me want to immediately answer, but then, in addition to the nine present at the opening of the exhibition, unwittingly, thanks to my subjective opinion, there would be more people who wanted to gaze at this eccentricity Ilya Grishaeva... Any scandal in the media is already a guarantee of success. Perhaps the organizers of the exhibition were counting on this. Now it ends and I will write a few words after this performance, so be it.

And also our Voronezh artist Sergei Gorshkov pushed me to write, who on social networks really admired Ilya Grishaev's work:

Sergey Gorshkov

I watched the exhibition with great pleasure Ilya Grishaeva at the Voronezh Center for Contemporary Art. Ilya, thanks for the art, very impressed! It’s a pity that we didn’t see each other, but I hope that you will come to us in Voronezh.

And also Alexander Shilov, which being 2015 with its wonderful exhibition in VOKHM them. I.N. Kramskoy,literally explained that:

"An artist who cannot draw a horse is not an artist for me!"

Judging by the messy scribbles (I did not find another definition - ed.), painted on the snow-white walls of the exhibition space Ilya Grishaev,there the horse did not lie ...

I decided to study the biography of this "artist". Found extremely scarce information:

Ilya Grishaev

Year and place of birth: 1984, Permian.
Education: Perm Humanitarian and Technological Institute; department of Iconography of the Theological School in Perm; School of a young artist Pro Arte.

In his work Ilya Grishaev analyzes the visual language of the surrounding reality, creates symbols that are born as plastic "traces":

“I try to create plastic bodies, recruited from forms that tend to the sign, and composed according to some motives, systems, rules, more obeying poetic laws than logic.”

Winner of the V Competition for Young Artists "New Projects for Anna Nova Gallery".
Lives and works in Petersburg.

From biography Ilya Grishaeva I don't understand they hit him on the pens in the art school-studio for scribbles and spoiled sheets of Whatman paper? But the youth of his "artistic" growing up surprisingly coincided with the prosperity at that time of vigorous activity in Perm Marat Gelman.This lover of performance in all manifestations of culture Perm the region is long gone, as well as millions of state money, and their governor, fleeing criminal prosecution. But something tells me that Gelman during his stormy activity in Perm, managed to put something into my mind Ilya Grishaeva... And this plague Gelmanovshchina began, like a cancerous malignant tumor, to spread throughout the country. You can still hear "artistic" echoes from Perm region.

Maybe at Ilya Grishaeva not all right with the psyche? Maybe he was released during the opening of the exhibition in Voronezhfrom the clinic? No, I have not seen anything like that about this fact. But then I accidentally saw the announcement of his exhibition

Detailed information:

Ilya Grishaev was born in 1984 in Perm. Graduated from the Perm Institute of Humanities and Technology in 2007 (Department of Design). Studied at the Art-S studio with M. G. Pavlyukevich and V. V. Selivanov. Studied at the Department of Iconography of the Perm Theological School (2009-2010). Graduated from the "School for Young Artists" of the Pro Arte Foundation (2012-2013). Since 2011 he has been living and working in St. Petersburg. Ilya Grishaev is engaged in the study of artistic and imaginative representations in the visual arts related to the ideas of Modernism at the beginning of the 20th century, when the writers and artists of the Surrealism movement (Andre Breton, Guillaume Apollinaire, Max Ernst, Rene Magritte) became interested in the problems of the “irrational” and “unconscious” in creativity , which marked the beginning of the ideas of abstraction art Abstractionism. In the early works of Grishaev there are still recognizable symbols - letters and numbers, but gradually he moves to the creation of "emotional spots" and "plastic traces", in which the accidentally obtained abstract graphic drawing is endowed with subjective significance and is read as an element of an independent artistic text (which the artist does not decrypts). The interpretation of a drawing as a conventional "letter" or "text" allows the artist to use the entire existing arsenal of work with traditional letter signs: from graphic writing (using it both in chamber and monumental fresco format) to a three-dimensional object (where each "letter" turns into a volumetric sculpture). A clearly defined topic related to the history of art and the sequence of its development secured for the artist the interest of viewers and specialists who attract his work for various projects and exhibitions of contemporary art: "Actual drawing" in the State Russian Museum, "Nothing of the kind" in the Museum of Moscow, in parallel program of the international festival of contemporary art Manifesta 10 Manifesto

Personal exhibitions:

2013 - "Condition", Platform for Young Art Start, Center for Contemporary Art Winzavod, Moscow

2013 - "Primet", Navicula Artis gallery, St. Petersburg

2014 - "GUYOM", exhibition space Nepokorennye, 17, St. Petersburg

2015 - "not everything / pas tout", Anna Nova contemporary art gallery, St. Petersburg

Group exhibitions:

2010 - Festival "Live Perm 2010" (Museum of Contemporary Art PERMM)

2012 - Biennale of Graphics "Boomerang" (Museum of Contemporary Art PERMM)

2014 - Exhibition "Transit Zone" (Museum of Contemporary Art PERMM)

2014 - Exhibition "Actual Drawing" (State Russian Museum)

2014 - “Not a museum. * Laboratory of aesthetic suspicions ", parallel program Manifesta10

2014 - Exhibition “Another capital. Contemporary art of St. Petersburg today ", Museum of Moscow

2014 - Exhibition project "Signal 2014", KB "Signal", St. Petersburg

2015 - Project "Probability", Luda Gallery, Museum of Soviet Naive, St. Petersburg / Perm 2015 "Kon", Burakova 27, Moscow

2015 - Performance based on "The Snark Hunt" by Lewis Carroll. Group "North-7" (Night of St. Petersburg Museums)

Was born in Perm. Graduated from the Perm Institute of Humanities and Technology; Icon-painting department of the Perm Theological School, School of Young Artist Pro Arte.
In his work, he analyzes the visual language of the surrounding reality, creates symbols that are born as plastic "traces". Winner of the V Competition for Young Artists "New Projects for Anna Nova Gallery".

Pas tout / Not all
The presented project is an event, the process of formation of the artist's visual language: graphic writing, relations with space and the viewer. In this situation, the gallery is transformed into a cartographic plane that records the artist's observations, becomes his plastic diary, where works play the role of documents registering the process of creating a work. The exhibition as a system for the existence of knowledge and experience of an artist forms a space for conversation about the possibility of freedom and the possibility of personal - about the necessary conditions for the existence of education.

 

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