a-s-t-r-a open vol.2
15.12.2022 — 22.01.2023
Vinzavod Contemporary Art Center, 4 Syromyatnichesky Lane, 1/8, building 9, entrance 22
a—s—t—r—a continues the main line of the gallery's activity - discovering new names, experimenting and testing hypotheses.
December 15 opens the second part of the annual project a—s—t—r—a open - a series of group exhibitions (two group exhibitions per year: winter and summer) of Russian artists, for the duration of which the gallery space becomes a place for the institutional debut of the artists, the testing of new ideas and a platform for artistic dialogue.
The exhibition includes works by: Maria Gruzdeva, Vasilisa Lebedeva, Alexey Ryabov, Polina Koval, Oksana Afanasieva, Grigory Gonkov, Georgy Chaushba, Kirill Doeshvili, Masha Shishova, Ilya Atom, Irina Murashova and Maria Molyanova.
Doeshvili Kirill
Kirill Doeshvili is an artist, poet and musician. He studied art, philosophy, poetry and literature, and attended courses at the Repin Academy as a free student. Repin. Studied at the Dnepropetrovsk Art School.
Born on June 29, 1988 in St. Petersburg.
Studied art, philosophy, poetry and literature, as a free-lance student attended courses at the Repin Academy. Repin. Studied at the Yalta Art School. Participant of Russian and international exhibitions and residencies. Doeshvili's works are in private collections in Russia, Ukraine, USA, Australia, England, Germany, Czech Republic. Since 2022 he has been living and working in Moscow.
Kirill sees his art through the eye, which does not obey the man-made laws of perspective, striving to cognize each object through the adventure of perception. Drawing itself turns for him into an interlocutor or a stranger, with whom he begins to juggle images. Each work is a new situation in which events unfold dynamically, but all of them are simultaneously connected by a common logic and characters: Treschak the Unpunished, the Friendly Pirate, the Strolling Apollo, the Unscientific Chatterbox. There is no bad or good among them. They are all embraced by the flame of love, but don't know how to express it properly. Just like us.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
- 2023 — Fair |catalog|, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
- 2023 — Blazar, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
- 2022 — Juice from stone and earth, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Winzavod, Moscow
- 2022 — a—s—t—r—a open.vol. 2, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Winzavod, Moscow
- 2020 — Art Residence “Yuzhny Bereg” theme: “Mystery”.
- 2020 — Participant of the project NEW REALITY. FOR THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF UNOVIS
- 2020 — Art Forum Berlin Art
- 2020 — Exhibition of Expressionism, Gostiny Dvor
- 2020 — Creating psychedelic objects at the Sunburn art festival Goa, India
- 2019 — South Coast Art Residence
- 2018 — Art festival “Colors of the World” Koktebel
- 2017 — Creation and art design, “Extreme festival”
- 2016 — “Tavrida”
"An instinctive Faith in the art form, a symbiosis of inner and outer journeys, signs on the way to advancement in art. Without thinking that death is near, I am constantly trying to comprehend the emptiness of all forms that distort and reshape, have their own magnitude and even a formal notion of time. When one painstakingly draws or writes, one has two types of signs of progress along the path - definite and indefinite - which show that the result will soon be achieved. The indefinite signs, called basic signs, appear due to previous connections, even if the person has never practiced art at all . Since they cannot be relied upon, I will not describe them here. Definite marks appear as a result of drawing and are of two kinds: transitory and immutable. Transient signs may appear either in reality or in mood. As for the first kind, when you are making preliminary sketches, you may feel as if your body is about to collapse like the walls of a cracking house. Your voice may weaken, as in a state of extreme exhaustion. You may begin to convulse like you are possessed by spirits. These are indicators that you have separated reality and the world of images. Frustration with your own body, speech, and mind may appear in the mood. This demonstrates that you have purified yourself . If these states do not appear, it means that you have not gained enough experience, so you must continue to immerse yourself in the form."
Kirill Doeshvili
Kirill Doeshvili, cover of RBC Style, March 2024
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
- RBC Style - “I'm Telling You About Love”: the new issue of RBC Style has been released
- BURO. - Mythology, ceramics and SEALs: what to see at a-s-t-r-a gallery
- Cabinet de l'Art - Art review 19.01-26.01.23
- mydecor - “Juice from Stone and Earth” exhibition at a-s-t-r-a gallery
- Playbill Daily - “I create my works at night”: artist Kirill Doeshvili about his fictional world
- Snob - 5 works by artist Kirill Doeshvili in the “Art.Act” project
- Playbill - What to see at the new contemporary art fair |catalog|
Works
Doeshvili Kirill
I was told to measure my life by my pulse, 2023
Бумага, акварель, смешанная техника
60 х 80 см
Doeshvili Kirill
The sense of necessity is inseparable from the sense of feeling, 2024
Watercolor, mixed technique
32 х 39,5 см
Doeshvili Kirill
The sense of necessity is inseparable from the sense of feeling, 2024
Watercolor, mixed technique
60 х 80 см
Murashova Irina
Education:
- Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Journalism
- Surikov Moscow State Academic Institute, Department of Monumental Painting, studio of I. Lubennikov
- Free workshops at the Moscow State Academy of Fine Arts
EDUCATION:
- Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Journalism
- Surikov Moscow State Academic Institute, Department of Monumental Painting, studio of I. Lubennikov
- Free workshops at the Moscow State Academy of Fine Arts
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
- 2022 - a-s-t-r-a open.vol. 2, gallery a-s-t-r-a, CCCI Vinzavod, Moscow
- Tin Club personal exhibition "Somebody in the City
- ZIL Industrial Art Residence
- CTI factory, "Coordinates" exhibition
- CTI factory, "Free Off" exhibition
- Leo Tolstoy Park exhibition "New Still Life"
- Gallery "Park" exhibition "About walks in the fresh air"
Ilya Atom
"Nizhny Novgorod, the outskirts of the city, I lived in an artists' house, the top floor of which was the Goverment Artist Association workshops and the second floor a drug den, which seemed to define my topography in the art world."
Born in Nizhny Novgorod in 1996.
EDUCATION:
2015 - 2020г. - NNGASU (industrial design)
2020 - 2022г. - Master's Degree NNGASU (Industrial Design)
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2022г. - a-s-t-r-a open.vol. 2, gallery a-s-t-r-a, CCCI Vinzavod, Moscow- 2022г. - BACKDOOR, gallery 9B. - Nizhny Novgorod,
- 2022г. - "Concrete" concrete exhibition, Gallery "1221". - Nizhny Novgorod.
- 2022г. - "Agart" charity exhibition and auction, HSE Center of Cultures. - Moscow.
- 2022г. - "Cultural Layer". Gallery "Bogorodskoe" / Moscow exhibition halls. - Moscow, 2022. - "Compatibility" , gallery "9B". - Nizhny Novgorod,
- 2022г. - "Wild wild world", Lazy Mike Gallery. - Moscow,
- 2022г. - "Mesto 6" Street Art Project. - Nizhny Novgorod,
- 2022г. - "Top 50 people of Nizhny Novgorod", Milo Concert Hall. - Nizhny Novgorod,
- 2021г. - "Mesto x Zaryadye", northern tunnel of Zaryadye Park. - Moscow,
- 2021г. - "Mesto 5" street art project. - Nizhny Novgorod,
- 2021г. - "Richter. Regions", Richter Art Hotel. - Moscow,
- 2021г. - "AU!", Museum of Street Art. - St. Petersburg,
- 2021г. - "Art Market", TSI Terminal. - Nizhny Novgorod,
- 2020г. - "BOMS vs COPS", ALCATRAZ concert venue. - Nizhny Novgorod,
- 2019г. - "GRAFFITY HERE!", art cafe Sovok. - Nizhny Novgorod,
- 2019г. - The first exhibition in the team's tattoo studio. - Nizhny Novgorod,
- 2018г. - Exhibition of student works from the methodical fund in the exhibition hall of NNGASU
Works are in the Mikhail Astakhov Foundation, the funds of the galleries "Lazy Mike" and "9B", Contemporary Art Center "Termimal A", private collections.
"My interest in art came through a passion for graffiti in 2009, which at a certain point in my life captured all of my attention. Up to that point I had developed as an athlete, was a member of the Russian national team, but had to leave despite my high results and victories in international tournaments. Graffiti turned out to be a kind of sport too; an exploration of the city through risk, competition, the capture of space.
The peak of my graffiti career came in 2012-2013: spraying city surfaces and public transportation on a daily basis, an article in the famous graffiti magazine Vltramarine, several episodes of graffiti intervention on city TV, and the release of "The Ferrum" movie.
In 2012 I joined graffiti team Boms Crew, from that moment my creative way is connected with the team. Since 2020 the team in the established composition of 5 people begins to position itself as an artistic association, stating this by the first collective exhibition "Bomse Crew" in the tattoo studio of one of the participants.
The rejection of academism: the search for myself in photography, video art, performance, interventions, street art led also to studio practice.
My goal in art is to achieve maximum expression with minimal means.
In graphics I mostly use only charcoal, in street works I use black."