Georgy
Litichevsky: Hypothetical Dances
State
Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
NOVEMBER
09, 2016-FEBRUARY 12, 2017
Georgy
Litichevsky (Dnepropetrovsk, 1956) is a creator who, through his artistic
practice, reveals the unlimited possibilities of comics. Subversive and quirky,
lively and playful, innovative and imaginative, revealing and sarcastic, his
works are characterized by bright colors and flat surfaces. Both the
childishness and superficial naivety, as well as the swift gestural writing
intrinsic to the comics aiesthetics amalgamate with human situations and
behaviors, with references to ideological and existential issues indicating the
artist’s deep humanism.
Hypothetical
Dances comprises a series of large scale wall-mounted art works on fabric and
smaller comics on paper, old and new, where surreal scenes and their enigmatic
dialogues spring from various historical incidents and express indirectly the
modern ideological hysteria, social imbalance and political and cultural
dysfunctions. This approach and negotiation of issues provides a surprising
scenography of human civilization where Baron Munchausen, dancer Isadora
Duncan, poet Sergei Giesenin, politician Anatoly Lunacharsky etc. are
"dancing" with hybrid and bizarre forms in which the human element is
combined with the animal one and reality with dream.
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Georgy
Litichevsky
21 Kolokotroni
, Thessaloniki, Greece
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