Igor Ganikovsky

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Igor Ganikowskij ( Russian Игорь Семёнович Ганиковский , transcribed Igor Semjonowitsch Ganikowski , born March 2, 1950 in Moscow ) is a Russian-German painter and writer.

Life

Ganikowskij comes from a family of teachers. In 1967 he graduated from the special mathematical school in Moscow. In 1972 he graduated from the Moscow Steel Institute with honors. From 1974 he worked as a hobby artist with his first drawings and pictures. From 1976 to 1978 he visited the art studios of Isaj Braslawski and Michail Kasanski in Moscow. In 1983 he was accepted into the youth department of the artists' association and he took part in a professional exhibition for the first time. In 1985 he was accepted by the artist association. In 1989 Ganikowskij had the first exhibition abroad in the Pelin Gallery in Helsinki. In 1990 he received a scholarship from the Gorge Soros Foundation and spent six months working in the USA. In 1991 he was elected Vice-President of the International Association of Creative Intelligence "World of Culture" with Alfred Schnittke , Sofia Gubajdulina , Andrej Bitov and Alberto Moravia .

In 1993 he moved to Germany; since then he has lived and worked in Germany.

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Igor Ganikowskij deals with three-dimensional works and uses materials such as wood or iron. According to his own statements, he “strives to show how reality gradually reveals itself on different levels of reality; (...) to experience the multi-dimensionality of the world and to see it as a whole from all possible perspectives. ”For this purpose, he designs“ veiled rooms ”, for example in the series“ T-constructions ”and“ Gates ”.

Ganikowskij's works can be found in numerous national and international public museums and private collections.

Light, transforming to words

reception

Marc Scheps, former director of the Museum Ludwig , Cologne, wrote: “The art of Igor Ganikowskij is laden with hidden symbols and has to be deciphered if one wants to recognize its deeper meaning. Ganikowskij has developed a language of visual symbols and his apparently strictly reduced works only reveal their content to us when we have learned to solve their riddles. It is therefore worth taking a trip to this 'terra artis incognita' in order to try to sketch an initial topography of the work in a series of stations. "

In 2006 the Prestel publishing house included his colored work “Composition 1” and an article on the work in the encyclopedia “History of Fine Arts in Germany”, Vol. 8, “From Expressionism to Today”.

Awards

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions
Group exhibitions
  • 1984 Spring Exhibition of Moscow Artists, House of Artists, Moscow
  • 1986 "Moscow and Leningrad Artists", House of Artists, Leningrad;
  • 1997–2007 Art Cologne , Cologne
  • 1998–2006 Art Basel
  • 2000-2006 ARCO-Madrid
  • 2006 Art-Moscow
  • 2010 “Germany of all places”, Jewish Museum Frankfurt
  • 2009 Review, Outlook, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund
  • 2015 Peter Ludwig Collection, MAMM, Moscow

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Igor Ganikowskij in the catalog Städtische Galerie Villa Zanders
  2. ↑ The Symbols of Light - Catalog Igor Ganikowskij, Liberation of Light, 2004.


personal data
SURNAME Ganikovsky, Igor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ганиковский, Игорь Семёнович (Russian); Ganikowski, Igor Semjonowitsch (Russian, transcribed)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-German painter and author
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow