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Soil Art Work Series 2

2022
Materials: mixed media, soil, red sand, found objects
70 см x 100 см
Category: painting
Item Number: 019656
120 000
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About the Work
About the Artist

Yan Tikhonenko rethinks nature. His contemplation on the passage of time made him to forge an artistic language where nature and time intertwine as integral elements of his work. Natural pigments and soil challenge notion of traditional painting, making three-dimensional works that are not supressed by canvas but rather intertwine with outside environment due to the nature of the material used.

Born in 1986, Yan received a Masters degree in architecture. He has been making art since 2017. The artist works with two techniques: oil painting and mixed media (represented by works with soil, sand, clay and rust).

Currently Yan works on two series - RUST and REFRACTION/REFLECTION.

The RUST series comprises works made with rusted iron with similarities to the artist’s works with soil devoted to aesthetics of everyday life.

REFRACTION/REFLECTION explores the change of composition of the painting depending on the position of the viewer.

SOLO SHOWS

2021 — “REFRACTION/REFLECTION”, ART&BRUT Gallery, Moscow

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2023 — “Anthology of Chthoni” Terminal A, Nizhny Novgorod

2022 — Fair of contemporary art Cosmoscow, in Gostiny Dvor, Moscow Fair of young contemporary art BLAZAR, in the Museum of Moscow, Moscow “Wildness” in The 3-rd floor gallery, Moscow

2022 — “SECRET GARDEN 'VIVAIO'” art design human gallery, Moscow

2022 — “The first names of the 19th-21st centuries and Russian contemporary art” Altmans gallery, CUBE, Moscow

2021 — Fair of young contemporary art BLAZAR, at the Museum of Moscow, Moscow Fair WINWIN2 at Winzavod, Moscow

2021 — “Workspace: untitled” in CUBE from Azot gallery, Moscow

2020 — MOST, ART&BRUT Galler, Moscow

2020 — the rooms 2.0 Moscow

2019 — supermarket fair in Tsvetnoy, Moscow