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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, musician. He studied art, philosophy, poetry, literature. Attended courses at the Academy of Repin. Studied at Dnepropetrovsk Art School. Participated in Russian and international exhibitions and residencies.

"I dig deep to find the clearest water, and this is my way to go."

Born June 29, 1988 in St. Petersburg.

Since 2022 he has been living and working in Moscow.

Kirill Doeshvili is an artist, poet and musician. He studied art, philosophy, poetry and literature. Attended courses for free students at the Academy of Repin. Studied at Dnepropetrovsk Art School. Participated in Russian and international exhibitions and residencies. 

Kirill sees his art through an eye that does not obey the man-made laws of perspective, an eye that is not corrupted by compositional logic, an eye that does not respond to the names of everything, but which must learn every object encountered in life through the adventure of perception.

"I dig deep to find the clearest water, and that's my way to go."

Doeshvili tries on a plane of paper subjective and metaphysical time, taking the position of an artist working with reality. Drawing itself turns into an interlocutor and a stranger with whom he begins to juggle images. In the process, they change, as does their relationship to space and to each other. New layers of interactions with the force that governs this dimension emerge. "As the universe flows, so do we transpire, because we are its stardust," says the artist.

The artist is the architect of worlds. Symbolically, to create his characters Doeshvili uses exactly archival architectural paper. Fictional characters suddenly come to life on the sheets: Treschak the Unpunished, Friendly Pirate the Rascal, Wandering Apollo, Unscientific Chatterbox, Neptune's Unspent Client, Romeo the Sad Man, Lunatic Pierrot and others.

The characters are constantly communicating telepathically and are in the same field, in the process of exchanging something for which the stars give them their blessing. Each work is a new situation in which events unfold dynamically, but they are all simultaneously linked by a common logic and characters. There is no good or bad among them. They are all embraced by the flame of love, but they don't know how to express it properly. Just like us.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

  • 2022 - Juice from Stone and Earth, a-s-t-r-a gallery, Winzavod Contemporary Art Center, Moscow
  • 2022 - a-s-t-r-a open.vol. 2, gallery a-s-t-r-a, CCCI Vinzavod, Moscow
  • 2020 - art residence "South Coast" theme: "Secret".
  • 2020 - participant of the project NEW REALITY. TO THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF UNOVIS.
  • 2020 - art forum Berlin Art.
  • 2020 - exhibition of expressionism, Gostiny Dvor
  • 2020 - creation of psychedelic objects at Sunburn art festival Goa, India.
  • 2019 - art residence "South Beach".
  • 2018 - art festival "Colors of the World" Koktebel.
  • 2017 - creation and art design, "Extreme festival".
  • 2016 - "Tavrida".

Doeshvili's works are in private collections in Russia, Ukraine, the United States, Australia, England, Germany and the Czech Republic.

THE WORLD OF DOESHVILI

An instinctive Belief in the artistic form, a symbiosis of internal and external journeys, signs on the way forward in art.

Without thinking that death is near, I am constantly trying to comprehend the emptiness of all forms, which are distorted and modified, have their own magnitude and even a formal notion of time. When one paints or writes diligently, one has two types of signs of progress along the path, definite and indefinite, which indicate that the result will soon be reached. 

Uncertain signs, called basic signs, appear because of previous connections, even if one has never practiced art at all. Since they cannot be relied upon, I will not describe them here.

Certain signs appear as a result of drawing and are of two kinds: transient and unchangeable.

Transient signs can appear in reality as well as in mood. As for the first kind, when you are making preliminary sketches, you may feel as if your body is about to fall apart like the walls of a cracking house. Your voice may weaken, as in a state of extreme exhaustion. You may start convulsing like you are possessed by spirits. These are indicators that you have separated reality from 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, then you have not had enough experience, so you need to dive further into the form.

As a result of fatigue, the actual signs show up in the bliss of the physical body, in the fact that you want to speak out, and in the mind everything is experienced as space. You can feel, "Nothing exists!" Along with that comes a joy pure as the sky. You may get the feeling that you have forgotten that there is a body, you don't notice your breath, and you don't want to leave the state of no thought, thinking, "This is it!" These are signs of mastering the stability of one's natural state, which is inherent in us. 

This understanding can also manifest itself in sensation: wherever your attention moves, you realize and comprehend that it is your own mind, you see the projections and returns of your thoughts as your own manifestation and realize that they are absolutely unobstantial, like space. These are signs that you have determined through seeing that the phenomena are your mind.



Works


I was told to measure my life by my pulse
Doeshvili Kirill

I was told to measure my life by my pulse, 2023

Бумага, акварель, смешанная техника
60 х 80 см
55 000 ₽
Cycle Form
Doeshvili Kirill

Cycle Form, 2023

Watercolor, mixed technique
80 х 120 см
135 000 ₽

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." 

Chaushba Giorgi

Georgi Chaushba - an artist who creates abstract and figurative paintings. Works in different techniques - acrylic, oil.

Born on March 16, 1973 in Batumi, Adjara Autonomous Republic, Georgia.

In 1995 he graduated from the Tbilisi Academy of Arts, Faculty of Monumental Painting.

In 2000. graduated from the American Academic School of Art in Paris, Department of Interior Design and then returned to Georgia.

In 2003. Moved to Moscow, in 2020 returned to Georgia.

Georgi Chaushba - an artist who creates abstract and figurative paintings. Works in different techniques - acrylic, oil. 

He lives and works in Batumi.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

  • 2022: Gallery Factory Tbilisi. Tbilisi 
  • 2010: Batumi State Museum 
  • 2008 : Gallery "we art". Moscow
  • 2000 : Comité de Salut Artistique. Paris
  • 1998 : Tbilisi State Museum
  • 1997 : Sardapi Gallery. Tbilisi
  • 1995 : Batumi State Museum
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