Vasily Tsagolov

Wassili Tsagolow (* 1957 in Dihora , North Ossetia , Soviet Union) is a representative of the New Wave , an art movement of the Ukrainian Transavantgard of the 1990s. He is also a performance artist and author of numerous video and photo projects and other installations.

biography

In 1977 he began his artistic training at the North Ossetia Art School in Vladikavkas, which he completed in 1986 at the Ukrainian State Art Academy in Kiev . He was a member of the "Commune Paris" Art Association and is one of the most important representatives of contemporary Ukrainian art. His style is characterized above all by the detached way of combining the everyday and the fantastic, through to the absurd and grotesque. The work shows that serious changes are necessary in modern figure painting. However, not related to the form, but rather to the content of the representations - regarding the subject and the character of the artistic narrative. The style is intentionally designed according to a strictly academic mode in order to avoid the distractions of formal experiments and to concentrate the attention on the plot and the narrative. The concentrated "gaze" encompasses an oversized religiosity, deep eschatological states of mind, as well as the obsession with the idea that extraterrestrial civilizations, UFOs or aliens exist. The combination of these elements takes place in such an ironic and skilful symbiosis that one can easily speak of a "paranormal realism". In the works Liebe and Criminal Week , which come from the most recent, expressive period of the works, the main instruments of which are improvised, artificially arranged scenes and optical illusions, some of which are shocking and mixed with real documents. The aestheticization of violence, which is a sign of the modern way of dealing with the issue of violence, leads through its fatalism to the dissolution of the moral boundaries between "positive and negative".

Exhibitions

2000: Musefication , Soviart Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine
2004: Wandering Bullet , Guelman Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2006: Ukrainian X-Files-2 , Guelman Gallery, Moscow, Russia

Group exhibitions

1997: 3rd Cetinje Biennale, Art Museum, Cetinje, Yugoslavia
1999: Pinacotheque , International Art Festival, UA
1999: Future Is Now , ukrainian Art of the 90s, Museum for Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
2000: After the Wall , Ludwig Museum, Budapest and Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
2001: Media Forum, International Film Festival, Moscow, Russia
2001: Iskusstwo 2000 - New Art from Russia , Rosenheim, Stadt Galerie
2004: FIAC International Contemporary Art Fair, Paris, France
2006: Russia2.Bad News From Russia. White Box, NY, USA

literature

From Red to Yellow and Blue , Ludmila Bereznitsky, Kiev, 2004
Perschaya Konnektija , Kiev, 2003

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personal data
SURNAME	Tsagolow, Vasily
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Tsagolov, Vasily
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Ukrainian artist
DATE OF BIRTH	1957
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dihora , North Ossetia, Soviet Union