Vasyl Ryabchenko

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Wassyl Serhijowytsch Rjabtschenko ( Ukrainian Василь Сергійович Рябченко ; born July 23, 1954 , in Odessa , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union ) is a Ukrainian painter , graphic artist , photographer and author of objects and installations and is considered to be one of the central figures of the Ukrainian postmodern and the " New Ukrainian Wave ”.

Career

“Daphne”, 200 × 150 cm, oil on canvas, 1989

Vasyl Ryabchenko was born on July 23, 1954 in Odessa, the son of the Soviet-Ukrainian graphic artist Sergey Ryabchenko. His artistic training began in 1966 at the Art School on the site of the Odessa Fine Arts College. In 1969 he began studying painting at the Grekow University of Applied Sciences in Odessa. Between 1974 and 1976 he was a guest student at the Muchina Art and Industry Academy in Leningrad.

After his return to Odessa, Vasyl Ryabchenko became friends with Valentyn Khrushch and the group of Odessa “non-conformists”. From 1978 to 1983 he studied at the Ushinky South Ukrainian Pedagogical University at the Faculty of Fine Arts and Graphics, his mentors are Valerij Gegamyan and Sinaida Borysyuk. Since 1987 he has been a member of the USSR Artists 'Association and then of the National Artists' Association of Ukraine.

During this period, a group of painters was formed in Odessa - Sergei Lykov, Elena Nekrasova, Oleksandr Rojtburd, Vasyl Ryabchenko. The group is neither known in “official” circles of the Soviet artists' association, nor does it belong to non-official, “non-conformist” circles. At the end of the 1980s, the group held two very well received exhibitions - “After Modernism 1” and “After Modernism 2” - on the premises of a state institution, the Odessa Art Museum. The themes and motifs as well as the large formats of the exhibited works marked the beginning of a new direction in the visual arts in Odessa. Rjabchenko's paintings “Shores of Undiscovered Figures” (1989), “The Red Room” (1988), “Sacrifice” (1989) “The Death of Actaion” (1989), the diptych “The Catchers” (1989), “The seduction method” (1990) and others.

In the period between the two exhibitions mentioned above, the exhibition “New Figurations” will take place in the Odessa Literary Museum, in which young artists from Kiev will take part. The integration of the “Odessa Group” into the context of the then current Ukrainian art movement begins. The works of Wassyl Ryabtschenko “Dispensing with Blessings” (1988) and “Love - No Love” (1988) are connected to this exhibition.

Wassyl Ryabchenko is one of the pioneers of installation art. His first work in this medium, “Swing for Tree Stumps”, was created in 1993 for Yezhi Onukh's curatorial project “Steppes of Europe”. This was followed by the installations “The Great Bambi” (1994), “The Consecration of Mme Requamier” (1994), “Princess” (1996), “Cold Academy” (1998) and others. Wassyl Ryabchenko has been involved in experimental photography since the 1970s. The main motifs of his work were initially the non-arranged still lifes made from everyday objects. The artist later recorded improvised constellations of objects and human bodies, in whose composition he used the “emptiness” and asymmetry characteristic of the Eastern tradition. For these photographic works, combined in the series “Naked Dream” (1995), Vasyl Ryabchenko was awarded the “Best Artist in Ukraine” prize at the first all-Ukrainian art festival “Solotyj Peretyn” in 1996. In the same year he founded the artist association “Art-Labor”.

"Embrace", 110 × 110 сm, oil on canvas, 1986

art

“ Susanna and the Elders ”, 200 х 200 сm, oil on canvas, 1989

Vladimir Levashov combines several periods in the work of Ryabchenko. The artist's early works from the 1970s and early 80s are characterized by the synthesis of “Western” and “Eastern” approaches to visual art - almost “English” aristocratic asceticism that organically transforms the language into the Chinese “dance of one Brush “flows into it, the restraint is balanced by freedom and lightness.

In the second half of the 1980s, Ryabchenko was enthusiastic about transavant-garde ideas. But if in general the Ukrainian transavant-garde appealed to the aesthetics of the baroque , Ryabchenko's works at this point could more simply be described as the “new rococo ”. For "transavant-garde" Wassyl Ryabchenko, strange through programmatic emptiness and adjusted aesthetics, frivolous playfulness and mechanistic combinatorics. For example, the works of the second half of the 1980s - "Cats", a story about two feline rivals. In the ensuing version, made during the period of the final deterioration in relations between the two superpowers that led to the collapse of the USSR, the plot changed its semantic context due to a change in size, color, spelling and title - "deterrence" .

The “ rococo line” is also followed in the later works of Ryabchenko, right up to those that were made recently. The artist is still committed to the passions of the nineties. It seems that the "inspirationally irrational" recomposition of "the motifs of his own creativity yesterday" takes on the character of an illusion. However, there are obvious changes within the narrative. It becomes more emotional and easily confused. There are notes of irrationalism and fear. Pastoral carelessness sometimes gives way to reflection and growing drama.

Selected exhibitions

“Big Bembi”, barrels, linear lamps, deer horns, 1994 The exhibition “Room of the Cultural Revolution”, Ukrainian House , Kiev, Ukraine, 1994
“Swing for the tree stumps”, installation, 200 cm, wooden structure, stump, chain, 1993,
“Random Exhibition”, Center for Contemporary Art “Tirs”, Odessa, Ukraine, 1993

The list of exhibitions is based on the artist's website, 2017

  • 2017: Salon of the Outcasts / Naval Museum, Odessa, Ukraine
  • 2017: Cold Faith / Invogue Gallery, Odessa, Ukraine
  • 2016: Zeitgeist / Zenko Art Foundation, Tatariv, Ukraine
  • 2016: Recipe for Utopia / Modern Art Research Institute, Kiev, Ukraine
  • 2016: Dashing 90s / The Museum of Odessa Modern Art, Odessa, Ukraine
  • 2016: Ergo sum. Self-Portraits Exhibition / Dukat Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine
  • 2016: Three generations of Ukrainian artists in the Tatyana and Boris Grinev Collection / Yermilov Center, Kharkiv, Ukraine
  • 2015: Enfant terrible. Odessa Conceptualism / National Museum of Art of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine
  • 2015: Museum collection. Ukrainian Contemporary Art 1985–2015 / Art Arsenal, Kiev, Ukraine
  • 2014: Ukrainian landscape / Art Arsenal, Kiev, Ukraine
  • 2013: Odessa School. Tradition and Currency / Art Arsenal, Kiev, Ukraine
  • 2012: The Myth. Ukrainian Baroque / National Museum of Art of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine
  • 2012: Contemporary Ukrainian Artists / Yermilov Center, Kharkiv, Ukraine
  • 2011: Independent / Art Arsenal, Kiev, Ukraine
  • 2010: TOP-10 contemporary artists from Odessa / Hudpromo Gallery, Odessa, Ukraine
  • 2010: Star Wars / Korobchinsky Art Center, Odessa, Ukraine
  • 2009: Restart / Marine Art Terminal, Odessa, Ukraine
  • 2009: Ukrainian New Wave / National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine
  • 2008: Odessa Contemporary Art / The Museum of Odessa Modern Art, Odessa, Ukraine
  • 2008: Exhibition on the 70th anniversary of the National Artists Union of Ukraine / Central Artist's House, Kiev, Ukraine
  • 2004: Farewell with weapons / Art Arsenal, Kiev, Ukraine
  • 2003: First Collection / Central Artists House, Kiev, Ukraine
  • 2000: Partial solar eclipse / French Cultural Center, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
  • 2000: Positive Response / Odessa Museum of Western and Eastern Art, Odessa, Ukraine
  • 1999: Art Gallery / Ukrainian House, Kiev, Ukraine
  • 1998: Month of Photography / Bratislava, Slovakia
  • 1998: Out-of-Graphics / Odessa Art Museum, Odessa, Ukraine
  • 1998: Cold Academy / Odessa Art Museum, Odessa, Ukraine
  • 1998: Pages / Karas Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine
  • 1998: Two days and two nights / Contemporary Music Festival, Odessa, Ukraine
  • 1998: All-Ukrainian Youth Exhibition / Central Artists House, Kiev, Ukraine
  • 1997: Photosynthesis / Exhibitions Directorate of the National Artists Union of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine
  • 1996: Phantom Opera / Young Audience Theater, Odessa, Ukraine
  • 1996: Jam look / Contemporary Art Center, Kiev-Mohyla Academy, Kiev, Ukraine
  • 1996: Golden section / Applicants' exhibition for the title “The best Ukrainian artist from 1996”, Ukrainian House, Kiev, Ukraine
  • 1996: Commodity Fetishism / Ukrainian House, Kiev, Ukraine
  • 1996: Naked Dream / Blanc Art Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine
  • 1996: Family Album / Contemporary Art Center, Kiev-Mohyla Academy, Kiev, Ukraine
  • 1996: Synthetic Art Advertisement / Karas Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine
  • 1996: Batiscaf-1 / International Symposium / Seaman's Palace, Odessa, Ukraine
  • 1996: ART Festival participant / Odessa Museum of Western and Eastern Art, Odessa, Ukraine
  • 1996: Two days and two nights / Contemporary Music Festival, Odessa, Ukraine
  • 1995: Dr. Frankenstein's Study / Scientists House, Odessa, Ukraine
  • 1995: Blood test / exhibitions Directorate of the National Artists Union of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine
  • 1995: Kandinsky Syndrome / Museum of Local History, Odessa, Ukraine
  • 1995: Two days and two nights / Tirs Contemporary Art Center, Odessa, Ukraine
  • 1994: Free Zone / Odessa Art Museum, Odessa, Ukraine
  • 1994: Cultural Revolution Space / Ukrainian House, Kiev, Ukraine
  • 1994: Terrible - amorous / Tirs Contemporary Art Center, Odessa, Ukraine
  • 1994: Traditions Continuation / Odessa Art Museum, Odessa, Ukraine
  • 1994: Lux ex tenebris / Tirs Contemporary Art Center, Odessa, Ukraine
  • 1993: Graphics from Odessa / Städtische Galerie, Rosenheim, Germany
  • 1993: Random Exhibition / Tirs Contemporary Art Center, Odessa, Ukraine
  • 1993: Europa Steppen / Ujazdowski Castle Contemporary Art Center, Warsaw, Poland
  • 1993: Diaspora / Central Artists House, Moscow, Russia
  • 1991: Art from Odessa / Gallery in the Old Town Hall, Prien am Chiemsee, Germany
  • 1991: The Glory and Modernity of Odessa / Yokohama, Japan
  • 1991: Ukrainian visual art of the ХХ century / National Museum of Art of Ukraine, Kiev, USSR
  • 1990: Babylon / Central Youth Palace, Moscow, USSR
  • 1990: After Modernism - 2 / Odessa Art Museum, Odessa, USSR
  • 1990: Avec Cezanne, avec Van Gogh pour la montagne Sant Victore… / Marseille, France
  • 1990: Soviart. Three generations of Ukrainian visual art from the 1960s to 1980s / Odense, Denmark
  • 1990: Soviart. Three generations of Ukrainian visual art from the 1960s to 1980s / Chamber of Industry, Kiev, USSR
  • 1989: After Modernism / Odessa Art Museum, Odessa, USSR
  • 1989: New Figurations / Museum of Literature, Odessa, USSR
  • 1988: All-Union Young Artists Exhibition / Manezh, Moscow, USSR
  • 1973–1989: Participant in regional, Ukrainian, Soviet and foreign exhibitions

Museums and collections

  • Zimmerli Art Museum ( New Jersey , USA)
  • Republican Art Museum Udmurt ( Izhevsk , Russia)
  • Museum of Modern Art of Ukraine (Kiev)
  • Odessa Art Museum
  • The Odessa Museum of Modern Art (Odessa)
  • Nikanor Onatsky Regional Art Museum ( Sumy )
  • Chernihiv Regional Museum
  • Ministry of Culture (Kiev)
  • Exhibitions Directorate of the National Artists Union of Ukraine (Kiev)
  • Zaporizhia Regional Art Museum
  • Voronov Art Foundation
  • Grynyov Art Foundation

Source:

bibliography

  • Museum collection "Ukrainian Contemporary Art 1985-2015 from private collections". Art Arsenal, Kiev, 2015, pp. 52–53.
  • Contemporary Ukrainian artist. Rodovid, 2012, pp. 136-143.
  • Myth. Ukrainian baroque. National Art Museum of Ukraine. Kiev, 2012, pp. 39, 161.
  • All-Ukrainian Painting Triennial, Kiev - 2010. National Union of Artists of Ukraine, 2010, p. 37.
  • Ukrainian New Wave / National Museum of Art of Ukraine. Kiev, 2009, pp. 164–171.
  • Visual art. From avant-garde shifts to the latest directions. The development of visual art of Ukraine of the XX – XXI centuries. Modern Art Research Institute, Kiev, 2008, p. 119.
  • Modern art of the times of independence of Ukraine: 100 names. Mysl, 2008, pp. 536-539, 640.
  • Odessa regional organization of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine. Grafikplus, 2006. p. 117.
  • Farewell with weapons. Art Arsenal, Kiev, 2004, pp. 67, 121 ( online ).
  • Portfolio. The art of Odessa in the 1990s. Collection of texts. Soros Center for Contemporary Art-Odessa. Odessa 1999, pp. 13, 15, 22, 24–26, 36, 52–53, 60–65, 164–167, 294–301, 312.
  • Ukrainian art from the 1960s – 1980s. Soviart. Mammen Bogtrykkeri A, pp. 9-20, pp. 88-89.

Web links

Commons : Wassyl Ryabchenko  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vasiliy Ryabchenko. In: Strange Time. Retrieved May 28, 2020 (American English).
  2. ↑ a b Odessa artist: Virtuosity as an ideology. In: odessa-journal.com. May 23, 2020, accessed June 26, 2020 (American English).
  3. ↑ Vera Savchenko: Одесский художник Сергей Рябченко: настоящее искусство не стареет: Одесса: Новости: Видкеса: Одкеса Retrieved August 7, 2020 (Russian).
  4. ↑ a b c Galyna Sklyarenko: 25 Years of Presence: CONTEMPORARY UKRAINIAN ARTISTS 1991-2016 . Ed .: Igor Abramovych. ArtHuss, Kiev 2017, ISBN 978-966-18-7123-5 , pp. 252-255 (English).
  5. ↑ Валерий Гегамян: ГЕНИАЛЬНЫЙ РИСОВАЛЬЩИК I | ХУДКОМБИНАТ. Retrieved August 7, 2020 (Russian).
  6. ↑ a b c d ВАСИЛИЙ РЯБЧЕНКО О ВАСИЛИИ РЯБЧЕНКО. In: МіТЄЦ. October 10, 2019, accessed August 7, 2020 (Russian).
  7. ↑ После модернизма - 2. Accessed August 7, 2020 (in Russian).
  8. ↑ Евгений Голубовский «ОТРИЦАНИЕ ОТРИЦАНИЯ». Retrieved August 7, 2020 (Russian).
  9. ↑ Новые фигурации. Retrieved in 1989 (Russian).
  10. ↑ Galyna Sklyarenko: Сучасне мистецтво України. Портрети художників . Kiev 2018, ISBN 978-6-17711017-9 , pp. 354-371 (Ukrainian).
  11. ↑ Vasiliy Ryabchenko. In: vasiliyryabchenko.com. Retrieved August 18, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Vasiliy Ryabchenko, "Молитва" 1993. In: modern-museum.org.ua. Museum of Contemporary Art of Ukraine, archived from the original on August 17, 2017 ; Retrieved August 10, 2018 (Ukrainian, “Prayer”).
  13. ↑ Vasiliy Ryabchenko In: msio.com.ua/en, accessed on August 10, 2018.
  14. ↑ biography on own website. In: vasiliyryabchenko.com, accessed December 19, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Ryabchenko, Wassyl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ryabchenko, Vasyl Serhijowytsch (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian painter, graphic artist, photographer and author of objects and installations and is considered a representative of Ukrainian postmodernism and the "New Ukrainian Wave"
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Odessa , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union