Contemporary Ukrainian artists

[Евгений]

Yuri Solomko

Born in 1962 in Crimea
Lives and works in Kiev

EDUCATION:
1986 - Krasnodar Art College
1992 - Kiev State Art Institute

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2002 Офис, галерея "Алипий", Киев, Украина
2001 Motherland, Gallery "Triptych", Kiev, Ukraine
2000 Yalta 2000 (Conference) State Museum "Livadia Palace, Crimea, Ukraine
1998 Scale of depths and heights, gallery "Tadzio", Kiev, Ukraine
1996 Borders, gallery "Space LAB", Cleveland, USA
Parts of the World 1996, Gelman Gallery, Moscow, Russia
1996 Cartography, RA Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine
1994 hot-cold orientation, Shupera Gallery, Munich, Germany
1994 Transit, gallery "Decima", Lvov, POLAND
1992 Gelman Gallery, Moscow, Russia

GROUP EXHIBITIONS: (Selected)

2002 ArtMoscow, 6-th International Trade Fair, Moscow
International Festival of flags, Seoul, Korea

2001 First Ukrainian project, 49 Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Art against Geography, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

2000 Result - 2000, Palais Wittgenstein, Vienna, Austria
Intervals, the National Art Museum, Kiev, Ukraine;
Художественный центр Хенни-Онстанд, Ховикоден, Осло, Норвегия

1999 Preventive measures, Days of Ukrainian Culture in France, Passage de Rets, Paris, France

1998 Crimean Project-2, the State Museum "Livadia Palace, Crimea, Center for Contemporary Art, Kiev
Cartographers, Art Gallery, Maribor, Slovenia;
Mucsarnok, Budapest, Hungary; Uezdovskogo Castle, Warsaw, Poland

1997 Cartographers, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
- Peer Gynt, Art Museum, Trondheim, Norway
- Photosynthesis, Gallery Artists' Union of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine
- History of Love, Gallery "Lavra", Kyiv, Ukraine

1996 Visual Arts, National Art Museum, Kiev, Ukraine

1995 5 years Gelman Gallery, endure. Facilities at the Kuznetsk bridge, Moscow, Russia
- Top Secret, Gallery "Art Form", Kiev, Ukraine
- Black and white, tion Center for Contemporary Art "Brama", Kyiv, Ukraine

1994 Artistic Impressions, Gallery Alipy ", Kiev, Ukraine

1993 Conversion, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
- Group-90, Palais Palffy, Vienna, Austria
- Impreza-93, Biennial, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine

Beginning in 1992, the National Art Museum, Kiev, Ukraine
Calm, Gallery, Kiev, Kiev, Ukraine

1991 Artists of the Paris Commune, the Gallery of Artists' Union of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine

1990 rds. Ukr. Artists, Cultural Center Marvinholm, Isted, Sweden,
Three generations of Ukrainian Art 1960-80, Kiev, Ukraine, and
Municipal Gallery, Odense, Denmark
Babylon, Youth Palace, Moscow, Russia

1988 International Exhibition of Young Artists of the socialist countries, Manege, Moscow
Love-88, Museum of History of Kiev, Kiev, Ukraine.
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The first thing I see making their way in the morning my eyes - blue ocean with the altitude of the spacecraft and drifting on his multi-colored continents - yellow, pink, light green. I recognize the contours of America and Africa, but why Africa buried its sharp end, like a nose, America's side? And why Australia two and one zalazim to another, like the hedgehog on the hedgehog? But all together these funny shape in the territory of confectionery pieces overdressed ladies and gentleman kneeling. Which only quaintness, we will not see in a dream ...

But a pair of pink Australia I see in reality - on the wall in front of the sofa. There hangs a picture of Yuri Solomko. Solomko draws on maps. Against the background of the Eurasian blurred his talk with Plato, Aristotle, and Laocoon, made up of infinitely proliferating Holland, torn sluggishly resisting France - rightly so, it serves frog country ...

Maps, in general, the most beautiful thing on earth - pretending to be a model of the land itself, they only see - already in its place delirium - how to lead us astray, obmishurit tree under which the buried treasure, to distract from the guiding path for deaf beauty watercolor stains. Map - a riot of imagination, legitimized hundred percent alibi parallel meridians, it is frightening, devastating credibility, which should kill fable. People at work Solomko hundred times stronger and more continents. I see it every morning. But just as I see clouds in the shape of elephants and antelopes ...
Vyacheslav Kuritsyn