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Circles and Wave

2024
Materials: canvas, acrylic, plush toys
5 см x 100 см
Category: painting
Item Number: 019740
350 000
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About the Work
About the Artist

Rostan Tavasiev rethinks the history of art by launching soft toys, which, innocently and cheerfully playing, create works and interact with them. The method of playful abstract expressionism invented by the artist in the 2000s is best known as "hippopart", where toys are co-authors, leaving their color and shape on canvases.

Rostan Tavasiev was born in Moscow in 1976. Graduated from the Carl Faberge Professional Lyceum of Decorative and Applied Arts No. 332 as a generalist jeweler (1998). Entered the Stroganov Moscow State University of Art and Industry, the Department of Graphic Design (2000). Studied "New Art Strategies" at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Moscow (2002). Entered the shortlist in the category “Work of visual art” within state prize in contemporary art “Innovation” (2006, 2013, Moscow). Personal exhibition “It's complicated…” was held in Multimedia Art Museum (2013, Moscow) and “Wall” was held in State Tretyakov Gallery (2006, Moscow). The works are in the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the Multimedia Art Museum, the Ekaterina Cultural Foundation in Moscow, as well as in private collections in Great Britain, Spain, Italy, France, the USA and others.

Rostan Tavasiev rethinks the history of art by launching soft toys, which, innocently and cheerfully playing, create works and interact with them. The method of playful abstract expressionism invented by the artist in the 2000s is best known as "hippopart", where toys are co-authors, leaving their color and shape on canvases. Since the 2020s Rostan Tavasiev has been developing the concept of creating works of art from astronomical objects in outer space. The artist works with such media as painting, graphics, objects and installation.