Dasha S.Kandinsky

03/10/2019

KIEV SHOW

FASHION. ICON / LAVRA GALLERY

Fashion icons of freak style Anna Piaggi, Vivienne Westwood, Iris Apfel, Lady GAGA, Isabella Blow and others are depicted using iconography canon of orthodox religion.  They are freak saints.  They are showen in effect of photo negatives, that displays essence of cleric in religion. At the same time, "cold" color of flesh appeals to spirituality as the blue - the color of another eternal peace in iconography.

17/10/2018

New York show

Body language / One Art Space Gallery

Consuming is our new religion. We have new gods and goddess, we pray to new icons, so fashionable icons, so heavenlybodies, so bring and shiny and decorated with beckoning brands and logos. We pray to bodies, new temples, consuming and inanimating them, but animating things instead. We want new bodies just as much as we want new things. Wishing is our new prayer. When you stop wishing you dead.

21/06/2015

Paris show

Form / Gallery Diamand

The concept of form in this case is an appeal to the “form” of Aristotel We are only a “form”. This project is about the transience of life and the fragility of the human body. Visual range is the rank of plaster heads (painting) each of which is encrusted with bloody rubies  (they are also arranged in a lines). Blood-born. It is our code and memory.  Precious stones as the most durable material and symbolizes the soul. The fragile plaster symbolizes flesh ( human body). Any plaster sculpture will be broken, the gems will remain forever.

20/03/2015

Moskow Show

Piece of materia / K35

Materia again being the physical essence of the universe. What is a "Piece of Materia" in this context? Human flesh, a piece of cloth, a piece of art as the material embodiment of the idea, or the canvas itself?

08/02/2013

Paris show

Androgyne / CICEUF

Neither male, nor female. Identity of oppositions in a single harmony. The world of new people excluding sex. A total unisex eliminates sex. Entire reluctance to breed. Growing children no longer see each other as boys and girls. They no longer look like them. Closed cycle of humanity, going back to its ideal state-Androgyne. Male nudity in female plastic. Vulgarity of poses vies with an idea, that this Deity (new Adam), uttery not excepting it.

10/12/2012

Kiev show

Silk way / M17

I would call it academicism. I don’t mean the painting tradition, as learnt in school, even though it is important. (This is what Kabakov was talking about). An academic school of painting teaches us the craft. The artist should be able to paint “inside” the canvas, but not just on its surface.

In my case we are talking about academic manner as the principle of building the project. A work of art should be syncretic. It is full only when it when it doesn't lack both the myth (non-verbal philosophy), and aesthetics. It is not necessary for art object to appeal to the "perfect" as an aesthetic category. "Sublime" and "disgusting" are no less valuable for art.