solo show Kirill Doeshvili

a—s—t—r—a gallery х Kirill Doeshvili
Exhibition: "JUICE FROM STONE AND EARTH"

24.01 — 20.02

Winzavod Art Center, 4 Syromyatnichesky Lane, 1/8, building 9, entrance 22

"Juice from Stone and Earth" - Kirill Doeshvili's first solo exhibition in Moscow. An exhibition-process, an exhibition-play, an exhibition-ticket to an adventure through the world, which the artist has created and populated with amazing characters.

Have you ever been presented with a comet? Or maybe you can use your voice to move through space?

Doeshvili's world is populated by strange guys. They play an intricate game with each other. Pogo is a burnt-out old bear, always smoking and coughing all over the forest. He stumbles and loses his handkerchiefs. Galileo the paean studies the stars and their influences, often noticing strange phenomena. Oborva bullfighter is a wandering poet, often telling stories that he is the son of Walt Whitman himself, and baboon Boy is a dancer and lover of dancing, especially Andalusian cantos.

There is no good or bad among them.

They are all engulfed in the flame of love, but they don't know how to express it properly.

Just like us.

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