Sh.V.A. Painting

PARTICIPANTS OF THE EXHIBITION: KIRILL AGRANOVSKY, ELENA BOCHAROVA, Ksenia BURLANKOVA, EVGENIA GLADKAYA, YAROSLAVA DANILYUK, OLEG DUN, IRINA ZAKHAROVA, DARYA LAVROVA

Alexander Kondratiev, artist, founder of the group “Sh.V.A”

The unofficial art life of Leningrad in the early eighties was as follows: the older generation of artists came out of the "underground" (my teacher ventured into a number of exhibitions in the Baltic states), young people stuck together in groups around various authorities. The elders instructed, the youth absorbed. But there were schools where, literally, classes were taught. For example, Yu.A. Nashivochnikov with a group of students developed the ideas of O.A. Sidlin. I continued the traditions of the Dugugach-Zaitsevskaya school, strongly flattering it with cube-futuristic ideas and non-standard spatial-perspective constructions. The result of these studies were several generations of artists, united in the group "Nomad", "Sh.V.A. ”, Some of them worked independently, some worked together with artists close to us. For example, with the group "Balance".

If “Nomad” has a monolithic character inherent in their ideology in the artistic language and figuratively-plot plan, then the group “Sh.V.A.”More free in the interpretation of forms, the choice of subjects and genres. In contrast to the archetypal images of the nomad group, the painting Sh.V.A. ”Turned to the personal qualities of their heroes. Experiments with a picturesque surface, texture, brought representatives of "Sh.V.A.”To the use of non-traditional materials: corrugated cardboard (E. Gladkaya, K. Burlankova), geotextiles (E. Bocharova), or even to electromechanical systems using wires, bulbs, etc. (K. Agranovsky). Game shocking and provocative, along with hidden geometric constructions (the legacy of the Zaitsevskaya analytical school) makes the viewer experience conflicting emotions. The portrait genre turns into irony and even grotesque. The sizes of the formats also play an important role: suddenly a portrait grows to the ceiling, forcing itself to be respected, if only for that. Such a noble, and, one might say, sublime genre, like a nude, is also subjected to ironic barbs and even feminine evil barbs. Nude, in fact, is the order of the male half of humanity, so admire what we are viper-vipers in all its glory! This also applies to that series of works “Naked Sh.V.A. "Where they depict themselves, or each other. Here passions, irony and self-irony boil. The philosophical subtext is not obvious to the viewer, but if it weren’t for him, all this might seem ridiculous. A forest of power transmission towers, burning light bulbs, blue proletarians running to some place, or a nude in a bra and panties in a pinched pose, pasted over with pictures of beautiful life, self-satisfied, well-fed handsome men and full-bodied beauties torn into two horizontal parts, drenched with paint and skukenenye geotextile panels with pierced in them with chipped chips of boards, representing trees, going branches to the upper canvas, and down to the dark red panel - the earth, and there, under the roots, what ultimately remains after us is the skeleton. You can be ironic on this subject as much as you like, but the chill of eternity slightly touches your soul.

The difficult years of the perestroika and post-perestroika periods left their mark on the art of St. Petersburg, and the group “Sh.V.A” was no exception.

KIRILL AGRANOVSKY. Born in 1970 in Leningrad. In 1989 he graduated from the Leningrad State Industrial College of Building Materials and Parts. In 1998-2000 he studied video production at the St. Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts. Member of the IFA Union of Artists, graphics section since 2004. Since 2007, the artist-animator of the studio "Working Group". Member of the group Sh.V.A. He has been conducting exhibition activities since 1980.

ELENA BOCHAROVA. Born in Togliatti in 1972. Since 1997, lives and works in St. Petersburg. In 2003 she graduated from the St. Petersburg State Art and Industry Academy named after Stieglitz, faculty of monumental art. Member of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia. She studied analytical composition in the studio of Alexander Kondratiev. One of the initiators and members of the group Sh.V.A. He has been conducting exhibition activities since 1999.

Ksenia Burlankova. Born in Leningrad in 1973. Since 1994, she studied painting and drawing in a private workshop of A.V. Kondratiev. Since 2001, a member of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia IFA, since 2012, a member of the Union of Artists of Russia. The main artist of the experimental stage of the theater-festival "Baltic House" under the guidance of A. Praudin. Winner of the Golden Spotlights 2003 Award. Member of the group Sh.V.A. He has been conducting exhibition activities since 1998.

EVGENIA IS SMOOTH. Born in 1976 in Leningrad. In 2001 she graduated from the St. Petersburg State Art and Industry Academy named after Stieglitz, department of ceramics. Since 2000, a member of the IFA International Creative Artists Union; since 2006, a member of the Russian Artists Union. Included in the creative associations of Sh.V.A, Shuvalovo-Ozerki. Village of Artists. Winner of the Golden Spotlight Award and the competition "Artists of the Treasured Dream". Member of the group Sh.V.A. He has been conducting exhibition activities since 1991.

YAROSLAVA DANILYUK. Born in Leningrad in 1977. In 2004 she graduated from the St. Petersburg State Art and Industry Academy named after Stieglitz, Department of Art Ceramics and Glass. Winner of the Golden Spotlights 2003 Award. Member of the group Sh.V.A. He has been conducting exhibition activities since 1999.

IRINA ZAKHAROVA. Born in Leningrad. Studied at art school number 12. Since 1992, she was engaged in painting in the workshop of Alexander Kondratiev. In 2000 she graduated from the St. Petersburg State Art and Industry Academy named after Stieglitz, Department of Information Design. Member of the group Sh.V.A. Works as a graphic designer. He has been conducting exhibition activities since 1999.

DARIA LAVROVA. Graduated from the Faculty of Law, St. Petersburg State University. Since 1999, she studied in the workshop of Alexander Kondratiev. Member of the group Sh.V.A. Member of the IFA Union of Artists, painting section. He has been conducting exhibition activities since 2009.

OLEG DUNG. Born in Leningrad in 1976. He graduated from SPbGMTU with a degree in Technology of artistic processing of materials. He studied painting in the studio with Alexander Kondratiev. Member of the group Sh.V.A. Also engaged in the design of jewelry.