Sanya Kantarovsky
Subtitle: no joke
By: Sanya Kantarovsky ; edited & designed by Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey
Contributors: Misevičiūtė, Ieva; Bertolotti-Bailey, Stuart; Studio Voltaire (London, England)
Publisher: Koenig Books; Studio Voltaire
Published: 2016
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9783863359560
Subjects: Exhibitions; Russian Painting
Other titles: No joke; Apricot juice
Description: Kantarovsky's practice encompasses painting, drawing, sculpture and occasionally film. His signature works often have thinly applied, wiped, or scraped layers of paint, and feature narrative scenes populated by isolated, sinewy figures. His paintings frequently include indirect sociopolitical commentary and a critical look at the idea of the suffering artistic genius. The publication will feature a selection of recent works alongside his Studio Voltaire commission, 'Apricot Juice'. A collaboration between Kantarovsky and Lithuanian-born performance artist Ieva Miseviciute, 'Apricot Juice' was devised around two distinct parts - a language and movement based performance by Miseviciute and a group of five large scale paintings by Kantarovsky. The point of departure for the collaborative project was Mikhail Bulgakov's enigmatic masterpiece novel 'The Master and Margarita', a narrative woven around a visit by the Devil to the aggressively atheist Soviet Union.
Notes: Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Apricot Juice", Sanya Kantarovsky in collaboration with Ieva Misčeviūtė, 17 April - 7 June 2015 at Studio Voltaire, London.
Table of contents: title: Dummy text  -- Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey; title: The doctor and the telescope  -- Eli Diner; title: Teeps and gutters  -- Sanya Kantarovsky in conversation with Allison Katz; title: Blind in one egg  -- Angie Keefer; title: See also --; title: References --; title: Details.