Exhibition
Nickita Tsoy. Antitheses to visible stories
Press release
“Nikita Tsoi. Antitheses to Visible Stories”
From October 23 to November 15, the Goldens auction house will present an exhibition of Nikita Tsoi’s new painting project, in which the author denies the established, stereotypical norms of collective mythmaking.
Working with the category of memory, Nikita Tsoi explores subconscious collective pain, trauma, and fears that are passed down from generation to generation. He carefully listens to the stories of witnesses of past events about what they once experienced, determining their influence on the formation of a stereotypical mythological consciousness, and deconstructs the worldview norms-stamps in which the real and complex human “EGO” is embedded.
“A typical example of mythological thinking,” the artist believes, “is people’s ideas and fantasies about the lives of their ancestors, where the past appears picturesquely idyllic: “once it was better”.” And, accordingly, in such fantasies there is an infantile mythologizing of certain historical events.
“In my new works, I try to use phantasmagoria and magical realism to knock myth and romanticization out of literal reality: I go to cynical realism under the guise of cheerful phantasmagoria, replacing everything with them and leaving a small path for the subjective memory of a person.”
The plots of the artist’s works on the border between reality and absurdity (“it is very difficult not to understand my pictorial fantasies — perhaps, in fact, it is easy,” the artist jokes) touch on the most secret and darkest corners of the human subconscious, its duality, where “each of us has his own double (doppelganger), for whom everything that we refuse in everyday life exists.”
The antithesis to the visible real life of a person with his complex of stereotypical ideas formed by the environment, according to the artist, is the possible existence of his deeply hidden second "self", inherited from the subconscious - "these are, first of all, reflexes that originate in our body and its experience, which are a counterweight to our "EGO", which originates in moral and ethical virtues".
In many of his paintings, Nikita Tsoi imitates the shadow from the camera flash, "feels the desire of this shadow" in order to give reality to his unpredictable images. This use of black shadows of the Caravaggios helps, in his opinion, "to assemble the human body from the remnants of the environment and phenomena that have been "built into" a person". But it also brings mystical, even eschatological moods to his works.
Dynamic, boldly and skillfully written characters of Nikita Tsoi balance between the worlds of realism, surrealism, expressionism, symbolism, where their distorted, deformed, sometimes hyperbolized flesh is surrounded by either bizarre symbols or ordinary objects, and inscribed in the attributes of either surreal situations or completely everyday events.
These images are certainly allegorical, but they embody concepts that are not so easy to reveal.
Analyzing archetypes, rethinking them in a new way, combining the absurd and incompatible, the artist seeks and destroys the threshold between acceptance-rejection, admiration-denial, sarcasm-compassion, terrible-ridiculous, sublime-down-to-earth, fantastic-real.
Nikita Tsoi's works evoke in the viewer a complex set of emotional states that are quite difficult to understand. And they encourage not only the expression of feelings, but also intellectual practice, in which the titles of the works often play an important role.
“Antitheses to Visible Stories” is a research project, the results of which can be completely unexpected. According to all the rules of the game of postmodernism, which require direct participation from the viewer. Like everything that happens in the strange, amazing and truly unique world of Nikita Tsoi.
The project is represented by 15 paintings. The exhibition is available for viewing from October 23 to November 15.
For questions about purchasing works included in the collection of the exhibition project “Nikita Tsoi. Antitheses to Visible Stories”, please contact the specialists of the Goldens auction house in the exhibition hall and in the online catalog by clicking the “Interesting” button.
Nikita Tsoi (born 1991) is a Ukrainian artist. Born in Kyiv. He grew up in a creative family where art was respected, so he developed his drawing skills in a creative environment and in conditions of freedom of expression. He began his artistic career at the age of five, and has been participating in exhibitions since the age of seven. He studied at the Kyiv Children's Academy of Arts (1997-2006); the T. Shevchenko State Art School (2006-2010); the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture (2010-2016), where he studied with M. Storozhenko; the Kyiv Academy of Media Arts (2018-2019). Member of the National Union of Young Artists of Ukraine (2016). Lives and works in Kyiv.
Opening hours:
October 23 – November 15, 2024
12:00 – 19:00
Monday - Saturday
Sunday - day off
Free admission
Address:
Kyiv, Leonid Pervomaisky St., 4
Goldens Auction House
+ 38 050 462 95 32
www.gs-art.com
From October 23 to November 15, the Goldens auction house will present an exhibition of Nikita Tsoi’s new painting project, in which the author denies the established, stereotypical norms of collective mythmaking.
Working with the category of memory, Nikita Tsoi explores subconscious collective pain, trauma, and fears that are passed down from generation to generation. He carefully listens to the stories of witnesses of past events about what they once experienced, determining their influence on the formation of a stereotypical mythological consciousness, and deconstructs the worldview norms-stamps in which the real and complex human “EGO” is embedded.
“A typical example of mythological thinking,” the artist believes, “is people’s ideas and fantasies about the lives of their ancestors, where the past appears picturesquely idyllic: “once it was better”.” And, accordingly, in such fantasies there is an infantile mythologizing of certain historical events.
“In my new works, I try to use phantasmagoria and magical realism to knock myth and romanticization out of literal reality: I go to cynical realism under the guise of cheerful phantasmagoria, replacing everything with them and leaving a small path for the subjective memory of a person.”
The plots of the artist’s works on the border between reality and absurdity (“it is very difficult not to understand my pictorial fantasies — perhaps, in fact, it is easy,” the artist jokes) touch on the most secret and darkest corners of the human subconscious, its duality, where “each of us has his own double (doppelganger), for whom everything that we refuse in everyday life exists.”
The antithesis to the visible real life of a person with his complex of stereotypical ideas formed by the environment, according to the artist, is the possible existence of his deeply hidden second "self", inherited from the subconscious - "these are, first of all, reflexes that originate in our body and its experience, which are a counterweight to our "EGO", which originates in moral and ethical virtues".
In many of his paintings, Nikita Tsoi imitates the shadow from the camera flash, "feels the desire of this shadow" in order to give reality to his unpredictable images. This use of black shadows of the Caravaggios helps, in his opinion, "to assemble the human body from the remnants of the environment and phenomena that have been "built into" a person". But it also brings mystical, even eschatological moods to his works.
Dynamic, boldly and skillfully written characters of Nikita Tsoi balance between the worlds of realism, surrealism, expressionism, symbolism, where their distorted, deformed, sometimes hyperbolized flesh is surrounded by either bizarre symbols or ordinary objects, and inscribed in the attributes of either surreal situations or completely everyday events.
These images are certainly allegorical, but they embody concepts that are not so easy to reveal.
Analyzing archetypes, rethinking them in a new way, combining the absurd and incompatible, the artist seeks and destroys the threshold between acceptance-rejection, admiration-denial, sarcasm-compassion, terrible-ridiculous, sublime-down-to-earth, fantastic-real.
Nikita Tsoi's works evoke in the viewer a complex set of emotional states that are quite difficult to understand. And they encourage not only the expression of feelings, but also intellectual practice, in which the titles of the works often play an important role.
“Antitheses to Visible Stories” is a research project, the results of which can be completely unexpected. According to all the rules of the game of postmodernism, which require direct participation from the viewer. Like everything that happens in the strange, amazing and truly unique world of Nikita Tsoi.
The project is represented by 15 paintings. The exhibition is available for viewing from October 23 to November 15.
For questions about purchasing works included in the collection of the exhibition project “Nikita Tsoi. Antitheses to Visible Stories”, please contact the specialists of the Goldens auction house in the exhibition hall and in the online catalog by clicking the “Interesting” button.
Nikita Tsoi (born 1991) is a Ukrainian artist. Born in Kyiv. He grew up in a creative family where art was respected, so he developed his drawing skills in a creative environment and in conditions of freedom of expression. He began his artistic career at the age of five, and has been participating in exhibitions since the age of seven. He studied at the Kyiv Children's Academy of Arts (1997-2006); the T. Shevchenko State Art School (2006-2010); the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture (2010-2016), where he studied with M. Storozhenko; the Kyiv Academy of Media Arts (2018-2019). Member of the National Union of Young Artists of Ukraine (2016). Lives and works in Kyiv.
Opening hours:
October 23 – November 15, 2024
12:00 – 19:00
Monday - Saturday
Sunday - day off
Free admission
Address:
Kyiv, Leonid Pervomaisky St., 4
Goldens Auction House
+ 38 050 462 95 32
www.gs-art.com
Press release
“Nikita Tsoi. Antitheses to Visible Stories”
From October 23 to November 15, the Goldens auction house will present an exhibition of Nikita Tsoi’s new painting project, in which the author denies the established, stereotypical norms of collective mythmaking.
Working with the category of memory, Nikita Tsoi explores subconscious collective pain, trauma, and fears that are passed down from generation to generation. He carefully listens to the stories of witnesses of past events about what they once experienced, determining their influence on the formation of a stereotypical mythological consciousness, and deconstructs the worldview norms-stamps in which the real and complex human “EGO” is embedded.
“A typical example of mythological thinking,” the artist believes, “is people’s ideas and fantasies about the lives of their ancestors, where the past appears picturesquely idyllic: “once it was better”.” And, accordingly, in such fantasies there is an infantile mythologizing of certain historical events.
“In my new works, I try to use phantasmagoria and magical realism to knock myth and romanticization out of literal reality: I go to cynical realism under the guise of cheerful phantasmagoria, replacing everything with them and leaving a small path for the subjective memory of a person.”
The plots of the artist’s works on the border between reality and absurdity (“it is very difficult not to understand my pictorial fantasies — perhaps, in fact, it is easy,” the artist jokes) touch on the most secret and darkest corners of the human subconscious, its duality, where “each of us has his own double (doppelganger), for whom everything that we refuse in everyday life exists.”
The antithesis to the visible real life of a person with his complex of stereotypical ideas formed by the environment, according to the artist, is the possible existence of his deeply hidden second "self", inherited from the subconscious - "these are, first of all, reflexes that originate in our body and its experience, which are a counterweight to our "EGO", which originates in moral and ethical virtues".
In many of his paintings, Nikita Tsoi imitates the shadow from the camera flash, "feels the desire of this shadow" in order to give reality to his unpredictable images. This use of black shadows of the Caravaggios helps, in his opinion, "to assemble the human body from the remnants of the environment and phenomena that have been "built into" a person". But it also brings mystical, even eschatological moods to his works.
Dynamic, boldly and skillfully written characters of Nikita Tsoi balance between the worlds of realism, surrealism, expressionism, symbolism, where their distorted, deformed, sometimes hyperbolized flesh is surrounded by either bizarre symbols or ordinary objects, and inscribed in the attributes of either surreal situations or completely everyday events.
These images are certainly allegorical, but they embody concepts that are not so easy to reveal.
Analyzing archetypes, rethinking them in a new way, combining the absurd and incompatible, the artist seeks and destroys the threshold between acceptance-rejection, admiration-denial, sarcasm-compassion, terrible-ridiculous, sublime-down-to-earth, fantastic-real.
Nikita Tsoi's works evoke in the viewer a complex set of emotional states that are quite difficult to understand. And they encourage not only the expression of feelings, but also intellectual practice, in which the titles of the works often play an important role.
“Antitheses to Visible Stories” is a research project, the results of which can be completely unexpected. According to all the rules of the game of postmodernism, which require direct participation from the viewer. Like everything that happens in the strange, amazing and truly unique world of Nikita Tsoi.
The project is represented by 15 paintings. The exhibition is available for viewing from October 23 to November 15.
For questions about purchasing works included in the collection of the exhibition project “Nikita Tsoi. Antitheses to Visible Stories”, please contact the specialists of the Goldens auction house in the exhibition hall and in the online catalog by clicking the “Interesting” button.
Nikita Tsoi (born 1991) is a Ukrainian artist. Born in Kyiv. He grew up in a creative family where art was respected, so he developed his drawing skills in a creative environment and in conditions of freedom of expression. He began his artistic career at the age of five, and has been participating in exhibitions since the age of seven. He studied at the Kyiv Children's Academy of Arts (1997-2006); the T. Shevchenko State Art School (2006-2010); the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture (2010-2016), where he studied with M. Storozhenko; the Kyiv Academy of Media Arts (2018-2019). Member of the National Union of Young Artists of Ukraine (2016). Lives and works in Kyiv.
Opening hours:
October 23 – November 15, 2024
12:00 – 19:00
Monday - Saturday
Sunday - day off
Free admission
Address:
Kyiv, Leonid Pervomaisky St., 4
Goldens Auction House
+ 38 050 462 95 32
www.gs-art.com
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From October 23 to November 15, the Goldens auction house will present an exhibition of Nikita Tsoi’s new painting project, in which the author denies the established, stereotypical norms of collective mythmaking.
Working with the category of memory, Nikita Tsoi explores subconscious collective pain, trauma, and fears that are passed down from generation to generation. He carefully listens to the stories of witnesses of past events about what they once experienced, determining their influence on the formation of a stereotypical mythological consciousness, and deconstructs the worldview norms-stamps in which the real and complex human “EGO” is embedded.
“A typical example of mythological thinking,” the artist believes, “is people’s ideas and fantasies about the lives of their ancestors, where the past appears picturesquely idyllic: “once it was better”.” And, accordingly, in such fantasies there is an infantile mythologizing of certain historical events.
“In my new works, I try to use phantasmagoria and magical realism to knock myth and romanticization out of literal reality: I go to cynical realism under the guise of cheerful phantasmagoria, replacing everything with them and leaving a small path for the subjective memory of a person.”
The plots of the artist’s works on the border between reality and absurdity (“it is very difficult not to understand my pictorial fantasies — perhaps, in fact, it is easy,” the artist jokes) touch on the most secret and darkest corners of the human subconscious, its duality, where “each of us has his own double (doppelganger), for whom everything that we refuse in everyday life exists.”
The antithesis to the visible real life of a person with his complex of stereotypical ideas formed by the environment, according to the artist, is the possible existence of his deeply hidden second "self", inherited from the subconscious - "these are, first of all, reflexes that originate in our body and its experience, which are a counterweight to our "EGO", which originates in moral and ethical virtues".
In many of his paintings, Nikita Tsoi imitates the shadow from the camera flash, "feels the desire of this shadow" in order to give reality to his unpredictable images. This use of black shadows of the Caravaggios helps, in his opinion, "to assemble the human body from the remnants of the environment and phenomena that have been "built into" a person". But it also brings mystical, even eschatological moods to his works.
Dynamic, boldly and skillfully written characters of Nikita Tsoi balance between the worlds of realism, surrealism, expressionism, symbolism, where their distorted, deformed, sometimes hyperbolized flesh is surrounded by either bizarre symbols or ordinary objects, and inscribed in the attributes of either surreal situations or completely everyday events.
These images are certainly allegorical, but they embody concepts that are not so easy to reveal.
Analyzing archetypes, rethinking them in a new way, combining the absurd and incompatible, the artist seeks and destroys the threshold between acceptance-rejection, admiration-denial, sarcasm-compassion, terrible-ridiculous, sublime-down-to-earth, fantastic-real.
Nikita Tsoi's works evoke in the viewer a complex set of emotional states that are quite difficult to understand. And they encourage not only the expression of feelings, but also intellectual practice, in which the titles of the works often play an important role.
“Antitheses to Visible Stories” is a research project, the results of which can be completely unexpected. According to all the rules of the game of postmodernism, which require direct participation from the viewer. Like everything that happens in the strange, amazing and truly unique world of Nikita Tsoi.
The project is represented by 15 paintings. The exhibition is available for viewing from October 23 to November 15.
For questions about purchasing works included in the collection of the exhibition project “Nikita Tsoi. Antitheses to Visible Stories”, please contact the specialists of the Goldens auction house in the exhibition hall and in the online catalog by clicking the “Interesting” button.
Nikita Tsoi (born 1991) is a Ukrainian artist. Born in Kyiv. He grew up in a creative family where art was respected, so he developed his drawing skills in a creative environment and in conditions of freedom of expression. He began his artistic career at the age of five, and has been participating in exhibitions since the age of seven. He studied at the Kyiv Children's Academy of Arts (1997-2006); the T. Shevchenko State Art School (2006-2010); the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture (2010-2016), where he studied with M. Storozhenko; the Kyiv Academy of Media Arts (2018-2019). Member of the National Union of Young Artists of Ukraine (2016). Lives and works in Kyiv.
Opening hours:
October 23 – November 15, 2024
12:00 – 19:00
Monday - Saturday
Sunday - day off
Free admission
Address:
Kyiv, Leonid Pervomaisky St., 4
Goldens Auction House
+ 38 050 462 95 32
www.gs-art.com
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Curators
Mykhailo Vasylenko
Director of the auction house «Goldens», art expert, curator
Julia Chernysh
Specialist of the "Goldens" auction house, art critic, curator
Kateryna Shcherbakova
Specialist of the "Goldens" auction house, art critic, curator
Curators
Mykhailo Vasylenko
Director of the auction house «Goldens», art expert, curator
Julia Chernysh
Specialist of the "Goldens" auction house, art critic, curator
Kateryna Shcherbakova
Specialist of the "Goldens" auction house, art critic, curator
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Lot 8
Nikita Tsoi (1991)
"Old tradition in wrong direction #2", 2024
canvas, oil, mixed media, 200 x 150 cm
Lot 11
Nikita Tsoi (1991)
"Paper aloe for a paper wound", 2024
canvas, oil, mixed media, 200 x 150 cm
Lot 13
Nikita Tsoi (1991)
"Knitting a sweater in the mouth", 2024
canvas, oil, mixed media, 90 x 75 cm
Lot 14
Nikita Tsoi (1991)
"Under the protection of patterns", 2024
canvas, oil, mixed media, 170 x 150 cm
