Sanya Kantarovsky
dal 15/4/2015 al 6/6/2015
Segnalato da
15/4/2015
Sanya Kantarovsky
Studio Voltaire, London
Apricot Juice. The artist whose practice encompasses painting, drawing, sculpture and the occasional film, has brought together his own work with that of Ieva Miseviciute. part of the project "How to work together".
Sanya Kantarovsky (b.1982, Moscow, Russia) whose practice encompasses painting, drawing, sculpture and the occasional film, has brought together his own work with that of Lithuanian-born artist Ieva Misevičiūtė.
Kantarovsky has taken Michael Bulgakov’s seminal novel The Master and Margarita as a point of departure. Written between 1928 and 1940, but unpublished in book form until 1967, The Master and Margarita is woven around a visit by the Devil to the fervently atheistic Soviet Union. The novel has been central to Kantarovsky’s work and thinking since childhood and this commission serves as his first opportunity to explore it in-depth as subject matter.
Kantarovsky has collaborated with Misevičiūte whose performances combine action theatre, dance and spoken word. Misevičiūte has choreographed a movement and language-based performance incorporating characters in the novel. Kantarovsky’s gesture studies of Ieva’s movements formed the basis of five large paintings.
In addition, Kantarovsky has assembled a transparent collage, reminiscent of stained glass, fitted to the gallery’s windows.
During two live performances Misevičiūtė will interact with the paintings and audience on a cat shaped stage, built to evoke Bulgakov’s character Behemoth and placed in the nave of the former chapel, a space customarily occupied by a priest or religious leader.
These expansive paintings of theatrical scale evoke both the sumptuous backdrops of the Ballets Russes and religious Mannerist painting. Responding directly to the scale of the gallery’s chapel architecture, Kantarovsky has produced his largest paintings to date.
Kantarovsky will collaborate with Stuart Bailey on an extensive monograph due to be released in autumn 2015. Published by Studio Voltaire and generously supported by Casey Kaplan, New York; Marc Foxx, Los Angeles; Tanya Leighton, Berlin; and Modern Art, London.
This commission has received additional support from Yana and Stephen Peel.
Kantarovsky lives and works in New York. He received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2004 and MFA from UCLA in 2011. Recent solo and two person exhibitions include: Gushers, MARC FOXX, Los Angeles, 2015; Allergies, Casey Kaplan, New York, 2014; Little Vera with Ella Kruglyanskaya, KIM?, Riga, 2014 and You Are not an Evening, GAK, Bremen, 2013. Kantarovsky participated in the group exhibition Notes and Neo Camp at Studio Voltaire, London in 2013. Recent special projects include Research and Reporting at KW, Berlin 2014 and LAX façade, Los Angeles, 2013.
Three of London’s leading public galleries—Chisenhale Gallery, The Showroom and Studio Voltaire—launch three major new artist commissions by international artists for their shared project How to work together. Together, over three years, the organizations are producing a thematic commissioning and research programme around the subject of "how to work together," comprising a series of exhibitions, events and an online Think Tank.
www.howtoworktogether.org
Image: Sanya Kantarovsky Kolobok, 2014. Oil, watercolor, pastel and charcoal on linen. 86.4 x 66cm. Credit Dawn Blackman. Courtesy of the artist and Casey Kaplan, New York.
Preview: Thursday 16 April 2015, 6.30–8.30pm
Performances: Thursday 16 April 2015, 7.30pm & Saturday 18 April 2015, 7.30pm
Studio Voltaire
1a Nelsons Row London SW4 7JR
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Wednesday – Saturday, 12 – 6pm