LITICHEVSKY, Georgy Semyonovich
Born 1956 Dnepropetrovsk
1979 graduated from Moscow University (History Dept.)
1990 worked as part of the BOLI group
(F.Bogdalov — G.Litichevsky)
since 1993 on the editorial board of «OJ» («Art Journal»)
since 1993 member of Moscow Artists` Union
Collections featuring the works
State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Exhibitions and auctions
Solo (Duo) exhibitions (selected):
2008 "Georgy Litichevsky’s Agents of Vision", Galerie Iragui, Moscow
2003 «Yoga — party», mural at State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
«Pinocchios Wahlverwannschaften»,
KGB-gallerie, Nuremberg
2001 Pinzel-Fabric Gallery, Nuremberg
1998 «A Hero of Our Time», Spider & Mouse Gallery, Moscow
1996 «Diligence» (joint with K. Zvezdochotov), Spider & Mouse Gallery, Moscow
«Inappropriateness», XL Gallery, Moscow
1995 «The Greatest Comic Strips». Art 5III Gallery, Berlin
Group Shows (selected):
2003 «ArtKlyazma», Second Festival of Open-Air Art, Klyazma Reservoir hotel, Moscow Region
1997 Moscow Forum of Arts Initiatives.
New Manege, Moscow (catalogue)
1996 «A Visit to the Fairy Tale». NCCA, Moscow (catalogue)
1995 «Moscow—Yerevan. The Problem of the Ark». Museum of Contemporary Art, Yerevan, Armenia
1995 «Kunst im verborgenen. Nonkonformisten Russland 1957-1995». Contemporary Art collection at Tsaritsino Museum; Wilhelm-Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen-am-Rhein; Document-Halle, Kassel; Staatliches Lindenau Museum, Altenburg, Germany
1994 «Multi-Faced Pinocchio». CIRC workshops,
Amsterdam, Netherlands
1994 «Identity». State NCCA, Moscow
19923rd International Biennale of Contemporary Art. Istanbul, Turkey
1991 «Holy Week». Aidan Gallery, Moscow
1989 «Transformation: The Legacy of Authority». Middlesbrough and London
1989 «Dialogue. Avant-Garde Russe l’Art Contemporain Sovietique». Centre Boris Vian,
Ville des Ulis, France
1988 «Labyrinth». Palace of Youth, Moscow
1988 ASSA Art-Rock-Parade. Moscow Electrical
Engineering Works Club, Moscow
Critique
In his illustrated stories and brightly colored panels, Georgi Litichevsky displays the vivid influence of graffiti art, comics, art brut, and the Russian lubok (Russian picture book). As he explains, “I feel that the sphere of art is not a zone for the solution of serious problems, but a field for escaping them. Art is as necessary as sleep and recreation.” Subscribing to this as a kind of pop cultural voyeurism, his work has a great variety if heroes, which he treats ironically.
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