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Bathers

2022
Materials: photogravure, paper
35 см x 50 см
Category: editions
Item Number: 092799
95 000
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About the Work
About the Artist

Editions of 6

The landscape of the Moskva River, like other spaces for the development of Olga Chernysheva’s “social geometry,” brings together a multitude of recognizable, archetypal figures. Their postures, behavior, and rhythm of movement are at once self-contained and interchangeable—a quality the artist explores in her series of multi-figure paintings (later transformed into silkscreen compositions). Working in silkscreen, as in her pencil drawings, Chernysheva extracts individual figures from the “urban score,” highlighting the poetic quality of their selfhood.

The prints are part of a limited-edition series of photogravures published by PiranesiLAB, a printmaking studio, in 2022. An enhanced intaglio process made it possible to reproduce the tremulous forms so intrinsic to Chernysheva’s art. Each bather’s silhouette was created specifically for the edition, first drawn in ink on a transparent film from which the printing plate was subsequently made.

Artist

In 1986, she graduated from the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography in Moscow, and in 1996 — from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam.

Selected solo exhibitions in recent years:

2025: Street of Sleep, GES-2, Moscow

2024: Re-animations, Iragui Gallery, Paris

2024: Houseplant is leaving, DIEHL, Berlin

2024: Unpacking Things, LANG, Amsterdam

2024: Being Daphne, Foxy Production, New York

2020: Grids & Rips, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw

2019: Public Feeding, DIEHL, Berlin

2019: Autoradio, Foxy Production, New York

2018: Ordered Equivocations, Kohta, Helsinki

2017: Chandeliers in the Forest, Secession, Vienna

2017: Settings, Iragui Gallery, Moscow

2017: Cactus Seller and others, DIEHL, Berlin

Her works are held in the collections of:

The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow;

The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg;

Moscow Museum of Modern Art;

National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow;

The Collection of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, Moscow;

Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, USA;

Library of MoMA, New York, USA.