Boris Mitavskiy
Russian federation
(birth name Boris Nikolayevich Ivanov)
(born 1948)
Born in Leningrad.
Co-founder of the art group "Inaki" (1973), one of the founders of the Experimental Art Society (TEAS), one of the organizers of the "Island" group (1985), member of the "New Romantics" group of artists (1991).
He is also a member of the Free Culture Art Society.
He moved to Germany in 1996 and lives and works in Hannover.
We are not subject to any canon in our work. We are not governed by any generally accepted rules. We often base our research on the opposite. The main thing is to achieve a higher inner harmony in the work, without betraying our inner state in any way. Complex as it may be, it must be put on canvas so that everyone, from the artist to the spectator encountering our art for the first time, can find themselves in it". "Our paintings must above all provoke the viewer, provoke his imagination. This is why some of our paintings have no titles. Everyone can find something just their own in such a painting and even give it a title without being intimidated by the fact that another viewer will call the painting differently
Education:
1975 -1979 - Leningrad Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, evening drawing classes
Two-year course in art history at the State Hermitage Museum
Stylistic trends:
Abstractionism
Expressionism
Constructivism
Surrealism
Non-conformism
Mystical Realism
Graphics
Volumetric painting
Exhibitions:
1973 - First unofficial flat exhibition at "Inaki" group, Leningrad
1973 - the first official exhibition, 10-th anniversary of October House, Leningrad
1973 - 1981 - Participant of flat exhibitions in Leningrad
1981 - Apartment Exhibition on Bronnitskaya St., Leningrad
1987 - First exhibition of "Ostrov" group, Concert Hall named after Tsuryupa, Leningrad
1987 - Exhibition at Elagin Palace, Leningrad
1988 - Exhibition of "Ostrov" group, Tsuryupa Culture Centre, Leningrad.
1988 - Guernsey Auctioneer, New York, USA.
1988 - Exhibition "The World of Light", Moscow
1989 - Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Manezh, Leningrad
1989 - Formation of the Club of Artists "Five Corners" and exhibition of the group "Island" in Pravda street, House of Pischeviks, Leningrad
1989 - Exhibition of Religious Art, Göttingen, Germany.
1990 - Participant of the Druo auction "Reconstruction of Leningrad Art".
1991 - Exhibitions with the group "New Romantics".
1999 - Exhibition organised by the Tolstoy Foundation dedicated to A. С. Pushkin, Hannover, Germany.
2003 - Exhibition of the Year of Russian Culture in Germany, Berlin, Germany.
2004 - Participation in the Second Biennial of Contemporary Art (BIN-2004), Manezh, St.Petersburg.
2008 - Exhibition "Island" 20 years later, Exhibition Centre of the Union of Artists, Saint Petersburg
2013 - Anniversary exhibition of Inaki Group, Pushkinskaya-10 Art Centre, Saint Petersburg.
Personal exhibitions:
1997 - First solo exhibition, Stadthagen, Germany.
1998 - Second solo exhibition, Hannover, Germany.
The Museum of Non-Conformist Art in St.Petersburg, as well as in private collections in the USA, Israel, Germany, France, Denmark, Sweden, England, Poland, Austria, Finland and Japan.
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