.mw-parser-output .hidden-begin{box-sizing:border-box;width:100%;padding:5px;border:none;font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .hidden-title{font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .hidden-content{text-align:left}@media all and (max-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .hidden-begin{width:auto!important;clear:none!important;float:none!important))You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Ukrainian. (May 2019) Click [show] for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the Ukrainian article. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Ukrainian Wikipedia article at [[:uk:Чичкан Ілля Аркадійович]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template ((Translated|uk|Чичкан Ілля Аркадійович)) to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

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

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

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

References

  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.)

Media related to Illya Chichkan at Wikimedia Commons