Oleksandr Anatolijowytsch Hnylyzkyj

Background

Hnylyzkyj was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on July 17, 1961.

Education

Oleksandr Hnylyzkyj graduated from the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts in 1980. From 1981 till 1987 he attended the National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture in Kiev, where he studied under Chekanyuk and Storozhenka.

Career

During Hnylyzkyj's creative career, he created his artworks in a variety of styles, genres and techniques. Oleksandr Hnylyzkyj was among the first Ukrainian artists who turned to the video. In the early 1990s, he filmed his own poem-action "Sleeping Beauty in a Glass Coffin".

Hnylyzkyj exhibited his artworks for the first time in According to the Plan, held at 1.0 Gallery, Moscow, in 1991. Later on, he also had shows at Fine Art Museum, Odessa, in 1994; International Art Festival, Kiev, in 1999; City Gallery, Rosenheim, Germany, in 2001; Age of romantism, organized at Ukrainian Artists’ Union Gallery, in 2004; New Space at PinchukArtCenter in 2006.

Starting from the 2000s, the artist turned to irrational painting and preferred to postmodernly depict the myths of characters of cult cartoons, television series, fairy tales as well as legends (Cheburashka and Gena the Crocodile, Stirlitz and Mueller, Fantomas, Koshchei, Mermaid).

Last years of his life Oleksandr Hnylyzkyj spent in Munich, where he worked as a designer for television and cinema, as well as a concept artist for live action. During his creative period in Munich, Hnylyzkyj left behind the consideration of the interrelation between paintings, photographs and objects, and dedicated himself to realistic painting.

Achievements

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  Oleksandr Hnylyzkyj was a prominent artist of his time. He is well-known for such his artworks as Call of Laodicea, Papalama, To Kill a Critic, Stereo Ksyu, Ulysses, etc.
  
  Today, his artworks can be found at the State Russian Museum, the National Art Museum of Ukraine, PinchukArtCentre, Nikanor Onatsky Regional Art Museum in Sumy, among others.

Works

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• installation

  • Louis Witton

• painting

  • Adidas

  • Müller

  • Frankenstein

  • Kyrgyz Ambassador

  • Chinese Lamp

  • To Kill a Chinese

  • Call of Laodicea

  • Papa, the Helmet is Pressing

  • Srairs

  • Emergency exit

  • Bed table

  • Space soop

  • Plumbing (Self-portrait)

  • Mermaid

  • Visual Vinyl

  • Dacha. Thermos

  • Bell

  • Zinc

  • Door To The World

  • In the Dome

  • Funeral of General Galliani

  • Vinyl Moon

  • Davos

  • Hospital Doors

  • A Wave and a Boy

  • Bath

  • Orchids

  • Drops

  • Sakura

  • Dacha

  • Chemoonashka

  • Window of a Housing Office

  • Banana

  • Gena the Crocodile

  • Orchids

  • To Feed a Cat

  • Snails

  • Golden Rain

  • Stereo Ksyu

  • Bookshelf

  • Stairs

  • Koschei

  • Soda

  • Cheburashka In The Train

  • Zephyr

  • Glass

  • Golden Rain

  • Shirts

  • Thin ice

  • Robin Island

  • French Blinds

  • Self Portrait

  • Striker For Rent

  • 3 D Fish

  • Heil

  • Boxes

  • Mailbox

  • Bad Flora

  • Heart

  • Lukyanovskaya

  • Dacha

  • Bedside table

  • When I was little, I was Mahatma

  • Orchids

  • Blue-feet Galapagos Ducks

  • Ceremonial Portrait

  • Chocolate Factory

  • Recreation Base 'Impulse'

  • French Blind

  • Wave

  • Stierlitz

  • Self Portrait in a Toilete (Parcomune)

  • Stierlitz

  • Chicken Soul

  • First Self-portrait

  • Take out the trash

  • Papalama

  • Blue Tape

  • Me Spiral

  • Pin Up

  • To Kill a Critic

  • Dacha

  • Manometer

  • Cocktail

  • Embryotopia

  • Cats

  • Danse Macabre

  • Untitled

  • Vinyl

  • Orchids

  • Hark!

  • Java

  • Сompartment

  • Ulysses

  • Borscht

  • Absinthe

  • Dome

  • Discussion about the mystery (Adam and Eve)

  • The Birth of Buratino

  • Shiv Guggenheim

  • Stairs

  • Papa Playing the Harp

  • Orchids

  • Aqua Minerale

  • Sky

  • Submarine

  • Submarine

  • Fantômas

  • Untitled

  • Center of the world

  • Untitled

  • Cheburashka In The Train

  • Pepper Salt Self-portrait

  • Agent Smith

  • Rain

• sculpture

  • Show Yours

  • Sculpture made of Crisps

  • Mechanical Skeleton Making Soap Bubbles

Membership

Hnylyzkyj was one of the active members of the Kiev artistic group Paris Commune from 1994. In 1996, together with Lesya Zayats, he founded a public organization Institution of unstable thoughts.

• Paris Commune , Ukraine

  1994

• Institution of unstable thoughts , Ukraine

  1996

Connections

Oleksandr Hnylyzkyj was married to Lesya Zayats, who was also an artist.

Wife:

Lesya Zayats

Friend:

Alexander Roitburd

Alexander Roitburd (born in 1961) is a Soviet and Ukrainian artist and director of the Odessa Art Museum. He is associated with the styles of Contemporary and Transavantgarde.

References

• From Red to Yellow and Blue Album-catalogue of the Soviet, Russian and Ukrainian fine arts "From red to yellow and blue."
  2004