Solomukha, Anton Pavlovich

Born in the family of the Soviet party intelligentsia. His father, Pavel Davydovich Solomukha - a participant in the Great Patriotic War , in 1943 became the inspector of pedagogical personnel of Ukraine in the secretariat of N. S. Khrushchev . His mother, Galina Von Krigin, is a teacher.

After graduating from high school and compulsory military service, Anton entered the Kiev Art Institute at the faculty of the Icon Restoration, where he became closely acquainted with the philosophy of religion. He was admitted to the workshop of academician Tatyana Yablonskaya . Graduated as a monumental artist in 1973.

The artist’s worldview is formed under the influence of such masters as theater decorator Mikhail Frenkel, film director Sergei Parajanov , writer V.P. Nekrasov and others.

In 1971, his daughter Christina was born. From 1975 to 1978, his work and disagreement with political censorship attracted the attention of the authorities. Repeatedly called in the KGB of the USSR .

In 1978, Solomukha immigrated to France .

He died in Paris on October 21, 2015.

Painting

1978-1980 became a period of experimentation in various techniques, systems and aesthetic formulas. The turning point in the work was a nine-month trip to the United States , where Solomukha exhibited in New York , Boston , Cleveland , Washington , Philadelphia .

In 1981, 1982, 1983, as a stage designer, she participated in the Chamber Music Festival ( Lockenhaus Kammermusikfest), where he was invited by violinist Gidon Kremer .

The influence of classical music , acquaintances with great musicians can be traced in the paintings of this period.

In 1985, the Les Grands Mythes project attracted the attention of Thomas Krings-Ernst, whose gallery in Cologne held regular solo exhibitions until 1989.

In 1988, two paintings by Anton Solomukha were acquired by the Ludwig Museum .

Until 2002, important projects in the painting were the series “Boxers”, “Intime corruption”, “Mechanical Toys”, “Les mythes et les limites”, “Jazz”. These series are characterized by a search for formal expressive means to contrast the various structures of thinking, and close attention to everything paradoxical . His ideological, aesthetic and ethical positions were formed under the influence of French critics Bernard Lamarche-Wadel and Michelle Anrisi.

A series of paintings " Allegories " 1979-2002. much more figurative and picturesque. Quoting works of the Baroque era, the search for heroes and antiheroes, based on serious compositional structures, undergoes constant changes, often under the influence of a photo image.

Photography

In search of new expressive means, a new pictorial language, the Solomukha painter more and more often turns to photography . In 1990, close acquaintance with Robert Duano . In 1995, he has been drawing for a long time with Henri Cartier-Bresson . Both acquaintances strongly influence the decision to devote oneself to photography. Since 2002, photography has become the main field of creativity.

The first episodes of “La fille au bilboque”, “Les sexes des anges”, “I fuck your TV” are characterized by the choice of a confined space, dark backgrounds, the presence of a mirror as a “character” to build an ironic or poetic plot that takes its toll roots in historical myths, bible plots. The idea of ​​fixing these projects is the rejection of social, temporary, "reporting". The connection with painting is becoming more apparent and becoming the main theme in the series of monumental photo compositions “ Little Red Riding Hood visited the Louvre ”.

Large square and “panoramic” compositions are only technically photographs, but I decide, they are built as paintings, like paintings. This lays the foundation for a new genre in contemporary art, "photo-painting."

Photo-paintings of this series represent a stage space with a dark background, filled with actors-characters, as if they had just come from modern Parisian streets, mixed with naked models, animals, still life elements and an infinite number of small details covering the floors and walls of the stage space.

The mental theater mise-en-scene system allows the artist to break away from the usual photographic image, create a paradoxical metaphysical space in which each of the characters, as in the opera action, plays its part, while remaining an independent element connected with the others only by the will of the artist.

Anton Solomukha continues citing painting classics in 2009 in the series “Little Red Riding Hood visited Chernobyl ”. The method of ironic allegory allows us to build reminiscences of the Louvre paintings in the morbid scenery of the Chernobyl disaster .

• Musée des Beaux-Arts de Mons (Belgique) (French)
• Peintures Françaises du Musée Ludwig (Allemagne) (French)
• Leopold Hoesch Museum , Germany
• Musée d'Art moderne (Sarajevo, Bosnie)
• Musée Cosmo Hôtel (Hong-Kong, China)
• New-York Academy of Art (NYC, USA )
• Fondation Dosne -Thiers (France)
• Rally Museum (Israël)
• Musée Norton Dodge (Maryland USA)
• NCCA National Center for Contemporary Arts, (Moscow, Russia)
• UIMA Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art (Chicago, USA )
• Musée d 'Art Modern d'Ukraine (Kiev, Ulraine)

• Une reussite Douteuse. Paris Art Conseil. Paris 1983-1984
• Anton Solomoukha peitures 87-89. Paris Edition Philippe Gravier. 1989.
• Anton Solomoukha travaux sur papier. 88-89. Paris Edition Philippe Gravier. 1989.
• Orangerie de Bagatelle. Paris La Mairie de Paris. 1990.
• Intime corruption. Paris Galerie du Genie. 1990.
• Kunst Heute in Frank-Reich. Colonne Musée Ludwig. 1990.
• Anton Solomoukha peitures 82-92. Neuchatel. JF Jobbi. 1992.
• Les mythes et les limites. Périgueux. Center Culturel de la Visitation. 2002.
• Arearevue) s (# 3. Paris. SARL area corp. 2003.
• Généalogie du fantasme. Paris Artvalue.com. 2006.
• Miroir De Vénus. Paris AS EditProd. 2007.
• Le Petit Chaperon Rouge visite Le Grand Louvre. Paris IFS 2007.
• Ukrainian Art Today Kiev-Paris. Kiev. Oranta. 2008.
• Art emigrants. Kiev. Jeweler-pres. 2008.

• Artmajeur (Fr.)
• Fine Art TV (French )
• Internet Diary About Culture (Ukrainian)
• Photography Magazine Eyemazing
• Festival Européen de la Photo de Nu (French)
• Galerie Art 208 (fr.)
• Photosapiens (Fr.)
• MonsieurPhoto (Fr.)
• Uno de los Nuestros (Spanish)
• Saatchi on-line Gallery
• Eyemazing editions