Illya Chichkan

Illya Chichkan (Ukrainian: Ілля Аркадійович Чичкан, born 29 August 1967 in Kiev, Ukraine) is a representative of the art movement "Ukrainian New Wave", which developed in the 1990s. He is a third generation artist.[1] He lives and works in Berlin, Germany, and Kyiv, Ukraine, as a painter, author of installations, photo and video-projects.[2][3][4]

In 2014, Chichkan along with his wife Masha Shubina, had visited India, a trip of which he was dreaming since childhood. There, during winter season, he paints his paintings.[5]

Ilya Chichkan have a daughter, Sasha, a co-author of Psychodarwinism.[6] In a dialogue Marat Gelman with Kostyantyn Doroshenko they expressed interesting thoughts about the exhibition New «Psychodarwinism». The Ukrainian artist took it as a basis famous paintings of the Tretyakov Gallery grotesquely depicting the main characters in the form of monkeys. Analyzing the artist's blasphemous gesture Doroshenko remarked: "Imperial totalitarian society puts art on a pedestal as something that rises above life and directs it… « Psychodarwinism» - a proposal to abandon elitism and hierarchies.».[7]

Family

Illya Chichkan is the grandson of Leonid Chichkan, a Ukrainian socialist realist painter and professor at the Kyiv Art Institute. Illya Chichkan's father, Arkadii Chychkan, was a Ukrainian nonconformist artist, he participated in "The exhibition of 13" (1979), a prominent manifestation of Ukrainian painters' passive resistance against social realism. Illya Chychkan's children, David and Oleksandra, are also known as young contemporary Ukrainian artists.[8]

Literature

References
  1. Tatiana Kicenko (August 29, 2014). "Художник Илья Чичкан рассказал о спекуляциях на арт-рынке и портрете Путина" [Artist Ilya Chichkan spoke about speculations in the art market and Putin's portrait]. Capital. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  2. Aksinia Kurin (April 7, 2009). "Илья Чичкан: "Моя задача не шокировать публику, а разобраться в самом себе"". Ukrayinska Pravda (in Russian). Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  3. Victoria Kim (July 11, 2014). "№9 Илья Чичкан". Forbes Ukraine (in Russian). Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  4. Yanina Kud (July 4, 2011). "12 апостолов современного искусства". Forbes Ukraine (in Russian). Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  5. "Inspiring places: путешествие в Индию Ильи Чичкана". Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  6. Ul'yana Kupnovickaya (September 11, 2017). "С нарисованой иконы на людей глядят гиббоны" [With drawn icons gibbons look at people]. Komsomolskaya Pravda. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  7. Conversation Marat Gelman with an art critic. New "Psychodarwinism" by Illya Chichkan. Zima magazine 17.02.2021(in Rus.)
  8. "Чичкан Илья". liga.net. Retrieved January 23, 2023.

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