My name is Gennadiy Ivanov. I am a Russian artist working in the Studio Art Gallery in Norwich, UK. (www.studioart.org.uk)
I am a UK-based artist. I graduated with MAFA from Norwich University in 2010. I am an artist with synthetic thinking and a technique artist. This allows me to work simultaneously in several directions and styles. My paintings demand from a spectator intellectual, visual and emotional effort.
As a Russian national from Belarus, I have experience of being a migrant artist. I still have very strong connections with my native country through family and through art.
I spent a year in planning my ideas for my first curatorial exhibition. I invited fellow artists both from Norwich, Norfolk and further afield to collaborate.
My work is large-scale and powerful with the whole space making a labyrinth of interwoven work: paintings, sculptures, structures and installations. My idea is to create the theatre where the spectator is a part of the DRAMA: my drama, your drama, our drama, and the world’s drama.
This exhibition has set the tone for following years: conflict, repression, asylum – all political and poignant subjects but also very personal and moving.
I have done three curatorial exhibitions so far. My past skills of work at the museums, galleries and a theatre inspired my dream to become an artist and curator in the UK.
First exhibition 2015 ‘War and Peace’ The Undercroft Gallery, Norwich (videos, and information at the web-site www.studioart.org.uk/ war and peace):
It is “one of the most exiting exhibition” in Norwich of last few years. The exhibition encompasses human life and activities of the past and present and looks to the future. It was disturbing, controversial, worrying even, an exhibition that asked questions. We had around 2000 spectators, a few publications in the media, newspapers and web-portals.
Second exhibition 2016 ‘Beneath the surface’ The Undercroft Gallery, Norwich (the info at the web-site www.studioart.org.uk/ exhibitions):
I was invited to curate this exhibition by ‘Stray’ group visual artists from Cambridge. They invited me to help them after my hugely successful War and Peace exhibition. It was great and not an easy task. It was very difficult to combine the varied work of very different and bright artists, to make it to work together. 1700 visitors and a lot of great comments!
Third exhibition 2016 ‘Asylum’, The Undercroft Gallery, Norwich:
28 artists, 2500 visitors, 175 great comments. The Asylum exhibition was a non-commercial exhibition, which brought together professional local and international fine artists, working in a variety of styles, directions, and media. It was absolutely GREAT success! Artists, philosophers, singers, dancers, poets and scientists have been invited to work together in large volume, scale, scope and topics. This exhibition took place in the dramatic and raw Undercroft space in the city center of Norwich.
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Paintings of famous Belorussian artist Yuriy Nikiforov (1937-2003) for the AOR project. Kindly will be given by his english friends form Yorkshire Mo Burrows and his daughter Elena Nikiforova.
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What: Exhibition “The Art of Revolution 1917-2017”
Where: The Undercroft Gallery, Norwich When: September 2017 Statement. ‘INTERROGATE’ - ‘QUESTION’ - ‘DISRUPT’ "The public has no idea what's going on behind the scenes. If it could see the authors and the scenery, and how prepared the historical tragedy is for the public, it would be an eye-opener." Diary note, Colonel House ''In many cultures Red means passion and love. In Tibetan philosophy it signifies connection with the Universe. In the Russian language ‘red’ often means 'beautiful’. ‘Beauty Will Save the World' (Dostoevsky). Artists are responsible for bringing creativity to the world, not only to bring Beauty – but to Save it'' Arina The third independent exhibition, organized and curated by the Russian artist Gennadiy Ivanov. The exhibition is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik October Revolution and explores its significance and cultural legacy. This will be expressed through industrial art, social art, fine art, music, film, theatre, fashion, performance, design, sex, and political activism. 100 years ago the Socialist Revolution in Russia brought radical approaches in art to the world. Why don't we stop for a moment, take a look back and risk plunging into the world of revolutionary art? We will see its relevance for today but through the lens of new technologies and media. History is coloured by artists marking the turning points of epochs for generations to come. Revolutions can be silent, stormy or invisible. When we mention the word revolution we immediately think of the destruction of old orders and beliefs but artists are in the avant garde, leading cultural change and establishing new principles. This is the power of visual art. The Art of Revolution. And the 21st century? Do we have complete freedom? Revolution with no canons and blurred ideologies? Have we been misled by modernism and post modernism? Can art surprise and create something radical now? I don't think so. Art is becoming more elusive, unreal, virtual, immaterial. No-one can be shocked by formaldehyde animals anymore. But it can be shocking if you take a brush and go back to traditions, back to the origins and to past revolutions. Pictures reveal the inner world, even if they are of an external reality. Artists strive to encompass human nature therefore we cannot exclude the dark, the gruesome and the tragic depicted with terrifying frankness. Now is an era of revolutionary change and global transformation. The Art of Revolution: The Art of Revolution uses art to transform public opinion and to inspire creative action towards social change. The art works will be provocative, and use the power of visual language and revolutionary words to elicit profound reactions. These projects will include hands-on art making, outreach and/or public installation and projects relevant to the educational curriculum. Our goals include:
We work to engage and educate the public, nurture artists and activists, and strengthen social justice movements. Our projects will live on in the community, beyond our initial involvement. Participating professional artists: Alfie Carpenter - painting Andrew Jay - painting Andy Hornett – installation Andrew Schumann – pictures Chedgey - paintings Deanna Tyson - textile Gennadiy Ivanov – artist, curator Frances Martin – drawings Helen Wells – performance Heather Tilley - sculptures John Rance - sculpture Julia Cameron – photographs Jon Page - sculpture Linda Johnson – drawings Martin Swan – assemblage Miroslav Brandejs - sculpture Monika Wesselmann – sculpture Peter Offord – sculpture Peter Williams - paintings Richard Cleland - paintings Robert Nairn – paintings Ro Seekings – graphics Simon Marshall - posters Sophia Shuvalova - paintings Sue law – sculpture, paintings Tanya Goddard - sculpture Viv Castleton - installation Yriy Nikiforov – paintings |
PAINTINGS BY GENNADIY IVANOV 2010-2016
New artworks for the revolution project. Dancing happy Red Sailor. 2016-2017
2017-09-18 Professor Lynda Morris lecture. Norwich, City Council chamber.
'WOMEN : EMPIRE AND REVOLUTION: Frederick Antal, the great Hungarian Art Historian wrote in 1949 in the august Burlington Magazine: The problem with Britain is that it only had one revolution and that was in the 1640s. Lynda Morris will argue that Britain used the wealth of Empire as a means to avoid further revolutions but that has left us with profound problems, the biggest of which is DUPLICITY. The colonial classes continue to dominate Britain, even when their experience of empire is three or more generations ago: Inherited wealth, Public Boarding Schools, Oxford and Cambridge, the Civil Service, the administration of the Public Sector and Politics continue to dominate every aspect of our lives. I have been writing and talking about the idea of POST-LONDON and the profound damage being caused by the economic division between London and the rest of the Country in every facet of life, culture and art. As a working class woman of 70, duplicity angers me profoundly. At its root is the separation of the sexes caused by Empire. Up until 1918, women and children mostly stayed at home while the men were on 18 month tours of duty around the world. POSH means Portside Out Starboard Home Figures now appearing claim that through the use of famine, rather than wars, between 1890 and 1914, 30 million died in India and 20 million in China. Figures have not been released for Africa, although 30 million are also believed to have been worked to death in the Belgium Congo. Great thanks to professor Lynda Morris for the interesting lecture yesterday at the City Hall chamber. She said: 'Thank you for organizing everything and the interest of the audience I enjoyed giving the talk in the grand surrounding of the Council Chamber. I was thinking all evening how little we celebrate the radical history of Norwich. Norwich stands for a peaceful history of Revolution - not a violent one: Ketts Rebellion, wool trade with Europe and take in Flemish and Italian paintings, links to Rembrandt and Mennonites in Amsterdam and Germany, Cromwell and the Parliamentarians, Thomas Paine, Quakers and pacifism, French refugees- Viscount Chateaubriand taught in a local school, Elizabeth Fry and Prison Reform, Edith Cavell and the man who designed the CND symbol etc etc It is a very great history that our schools should teach and the Castle Museum and Cathedral should represent.' |