Kirill Chelushkin

chelushkin_kWas born in Moscow. In 1994 he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Architecture. He has participated in many international Art Fairs and exhibitions, including the 2nd and 3rd Moscow Biennales of Contemporary Art (2007, 2009) and the “Bodycheck” Triennial of Contemporary Sculpture, in Fellbach, Germany (2007). His works are held in the State Tretyakov Gallery, the Museum of Architecture ( Moscow), the “Ekaterina” Cultural Fund ( Moscow), the LudwigMuseum ( Köln, Germany), and also in large private collections in Russia and abroad, including the Bernard Arnaud Collection ( Paris, France). He lives in Moscow and Paris.

Was born in Moscow. In 1994 he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Architecture. He has participated in many international Art Fairs and exhibitions, including the 2nd and 3rd Moscow Biennales of Contemporary Art (2007, 2009) and the “Bodycheck” Triennial of Contemporary Sculpture, in Fellbach, Germany (2007). His works are held in the State Tretyakov Gallery, the Museum of Architecture ( Moscow), the “Ekaterina” Cultural Fund ( Moscow), the LudwigMuseum ( Köln, Germany), and also in large private collections in Russia and abroad, including the Bernard Arnaud Collection ( Paris, France). He lives in Moscow and Paris.

Adaptation

Kyrill Chelushkin’s new projectconsists of seven large scale works (up to five and a half metres in length), in which the artist’s favourite technique – the multilayered working with graphite – is used on a new medium, specially prepared canvases.It’s as if the artist has taken a step backwards, returning to the planar surface from video-sculpture. In his understanding, the word “adaptation”, taken as the title of the serie, is a complexconcept which relates both to the “transfer” of his video-objects to a more habitual, accessible format for the unprepared viewer’s perception, and with the reduction of their “mixed” meanings to a clear, expressive, concrete, like a single frame, message, attribute. The theme of the city here is paramount, but on the whole Chelushkin presents himself as an entertaining story-teller and an original interpreter of a host of ideas from all spheres of culture – from philosophy to cinematography. In any case, the canvases shown in the exhibition may be numbered amongst the most masterly and spectacular works of recent Russian art.