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		BATYNKOV Konstantin

Biographical information: 1959 - was born in Sevastopol, Krymskya reg., Ukrainian SSR
1959 – Crossing to Moscow
Since 1980 – Participation in exhibitions
Since 1983 – Member of the Union of artists of the USSR (since 1992 - the Union of artists of Russia)
Since 1985 - member of the group "Mit′ky"
1995 - Member of the International Federation of Artists
1997 - 2001 - works together with N. Polissky and S. Lobanov
2003 - 2nd premium, Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale
2003 – Laureate of professional prize for creative achievements of Moscow artists «Master 2003»
2005 – 1st premium, 6th Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale
2007 – 2nd premium, 7th Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale
Lives and works in Moscow
Collections where works are held: State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow, Russia)
Irkutsk Regional Art Museum n. a. V.P. Sukachev (Irkutsk, Russia)
Krasnoyarsk Museum of Art n. a. V.I. Surikov (Krasnoyarsk, Russia)
National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA, Mosocw, Russia)
Moscow Museum of Modern Art (Moscow, Russia)
Novosibirsk State Art Museum (Novosibirsk, Russia)
Penza Regional Art Gallery n. a. K. Savitsky (Penza, Russia)
Perm State Art Gallery (Perm, Russia)
Saratov State Art Museum n. a. A.N. Radishchev (Saratov, Russia)
Contemporary Art Museun «ART4.RU», (Moscow, Russia)
Collection of Victor Bondarenko (Moscow, Russia)
Collection of Alexandr Smuzikov (Moscow, Russia)
Collection of the family of Jaques Dubi (Parish, France)
Participation in exhibitions and auctions: SOLO EXIBITIONS:

2009 - «The Other Life», Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia

2008 – «The Other Life», Dmitriy Semenov Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia

2007 – «Russia – Homeland of Elephants», pop/off/art gallery, Moscow, Russia
2007 – «Wood», Krokin Gallery, Moscow, Russia

2006 – «Parade of Planets», VP-studio Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2006 – «The Other Life», Krasnoyarsk Museum Center, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2006 – «Allegories/Knight a Romance», pop/off/art Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2006 – Galerie Farideh Cadot, Paris, France
2006 – «Hydrolysis», Krasnoyarsk Museum Center, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2006 – «Goal», Moscow House of Photography, Central House of Artist, Moscow, Russia
2006 – «Children», Krokin Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2006 – «The Other Life», Karenina Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2006 – «Ships», One Work Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2006 – «Small town», VP-studio Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2006 – «Robots», S`Art Gallery, Moscow, Russia

2005 - "Waves Runners". Krokin gallery. Moscow. Russia
2005 - "About War". Krokin gallery. Moscow. Russia

2004 - "Project - Cul`t - Prosvet". Krokin gallery. Krokus Expo. Moscow. Russia
2004 - "Bulldozers". Krokin gallery. Moscow. Russia
2004 - "UFO". Sam Brook gallery. Moscow. Russia
2004 - "Other Life". Krokin gallery. Moscow Russia

2003 - "Ally - Alien". Krokin gallery. Moscow. Russia

2002 - "Euro". A. Sakharov museum. Moscow. Russia
2002 - "Sea fight". S`Art gallery. Moscow. Creative Center "Mit`ki - Vhutemas". St. Petersburg. Russia
2002 - "Press-format". Sam Brook gallery. Moscow. Russia
2002 - "Melioration". Art-Festival. Moscow. Russia
2002 - "Outward Tibet". Krokin gallery. Moscow. Russia

GROUP EXIBITIONS:

2007 – «Baroque. Symptoms of the Big Style», Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
2007 – «New Angelarium», Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
2007 – «Russia - Homeland of Elephants», pop/off/art Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2007 – «Whales of a season 3rd», Krokin Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2007 – International Art Fair «Art-Athina 2007», pop/off/art Gallery, Athens, Greece
2007 – «Art-Moscow» 11th International Art Fair, pop/off/art Gallery, Marina Gisich Gallery, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia

2006 – «New Russian Avantguarde», Exhibition Hall «BurdaYukom», Munchen, Germany
2006 – «Project-cult-gleam», Millionaire Fair, Krokus-City Moll, Moscow, Russia
2006 – «New receipts», National Center for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia
2006 – «Choice», 11th Moscow International Forum of Art Initiatives, Exhibition Hall «New Manege», Moscow, Russia
2006 – «Winners of the Premium «Master», Center for Contemporary Arts «M’ars», Moscow, Russia
2006 – «The Moscow Painting», Belgorod State Art Museum, Belgorod, Russia
2006 – «Art-Moscow» 10th International Art Fair, pop/off/art Gallery, Krokin Gallery Gallery, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
2006 – «Yellow Pages. The Newspaper in Russian Art of the XXth Century», Kovcheg Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2006 – «Collage in Russia. XX th Century», State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

2005 – 10th Moscow International Forum of Art Initiatives, Exhibition Hall «New Manege», Moscow, Russia
2005 – 2nd Prague Biennial, Prague, Czechia
2005 – 6th Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2005 – Szczecin Biennale, Szczecin, Poland
2005 - "Art-Moscow" 9th International Art Fair, pop/off/art Gallery, Krokin Gallery Gallery, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia

2004 – «Mit`ki on Brestskaya», Moscow, Russia
2004 – «My Kabakov», Stella Art Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2004 – «We», 9th Moscow International Forum of Art Initiatives, Exhibition Hall «New Manege», Moscow, Russia
2004 – «Tsusima». "S`ART Gallery", Moscow, Russia
2004 - "Art-Moscow" 8th International Art Fair, Krokin Gallery Gallery, Sam Brook Gallery, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia

2003 – «New-year Tree bazaar 2», Sam Brook Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2003 - "School". Krokin gallery within the project "Archival Contemporaniety". Moscow. Russia
2003 – 3-rd Novosibirsk International Biennale of Modern Graphic, project «Traditionalists and Radicals», Novosibirsk Museum of Fine Arts, Novosibirsk, Russia
2003 - 5-th Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale, Krasnoyarsk, Russia

2002 – «New-year Tree bazaar», Sam Brook Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2002 – «Euro», A. Sakharov Museum, Moscow, Russia
2002 – «Melioration», Art-Festival, Moscow, Russia
2002 - Center of Contemporary Arts, Kemper, France

2001 – «Art-Moscow», Central House of Artists, Moscow. Russia

2000 – «Art Forum», Perm, Russia
2000 – «New comings», Moscow House of Photography, Moscow, Russia
2000 – «The Snowmen», Art-Moscow, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
2000 – «Klava`s lovers» Project, Art-Moscow, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
2000 – «The Walls», A. Sakharov Museum, Moscow, Russia
2000 – «Stengazeta», A. Sakharov Museum, Moscow, Russia
2000 – «Dow-Johnes», RTS, Moscow, Russia
2000 – «Azbuka», «DAR» Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2000 – «Vertep». M. Guelman Gallery, Moscow, Russia

1999 – «Project of Museum of USSR», A. Sakharov Museum, Moscow, Russia
1999 – «The Heroes», Exhibition Hall «New Manezh», Moscow, Russia
1999 – «Architecture & Design», Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
1999 – «Manilov project», M. Guelman Gallery, Toko-bank, Moscow, Russia

PROJECTS with N. Polissky and S. Lobanov

2002 - Center of contemporary Arts. Kemper. France
2001 - "Art-Moscow". Central House of Artists. Moscow. Russia
2001 - "Forgotten master drawings". Pinakoteka. Moscow. Russia
2000 - "Art Forum". Perm. Russia
2000 - "New comings". Moscow House of Photography. Moscow. Russia
2000 - "The Snowmen". Art-Moscow. Central House of Artists. Moscow. Russia
2000 - "Klava`s lovers". Project. Art-Moscow. Central House of Artists. Moscow. Russia
2000 - "The Walls". A. Sakharov museum. Moscow. Russia
2000 - "Stengazeta". A. Sakharov museum. Moscow. Russia
2000 - "Dow-Johnes". Moscow. Russia
2000 - "Azbuka". "DAR" Gallery. Moscow. Russia
2000 - "Vertep". M. Guelman gallery. Moscow. Russia
1999 - "Project of Museum of USSR". A. Sakharov museum. Moscow. Russia
1999 - "The Heroes". Exhibition hall New Manezh. Moscow. Russia
1999 - "Architecture & Design". Central House of Artists. Moscow. Russia
1999 - "Manilov project". M. Guelman gallery. Toko-bank. Moscow. Russia
1997-98 - "Mit`ki - to the Navy". St. Petersburg. Russia
1997-98 - "Mit`ki` New-year Tree". Manezh square. Moscow. Russia
1997-98 - "Forum of the artistic initiatives". Exhibition hall New Manezh. Moscow.
1997-98 - State Center of Contemporary Art, Nizhny Novgorod. Russia
1997-98 - "Vodka". M. Guelman gallery. Moscow. Russia
1997-98 - "Identification". "DAR" Gallery. Moscow. Russia
1997-98 - "Motherland or Death", "Christ - the good man", "Geteroportrait". Moscow. Russia
1997-98 - "Human rights". A. Sakharov museum. Moscow. Russia
Autobiographical notes: I`m not revealing anything new in saying that life is more interesting than art, even on a purely visual level. One cannot overcome this. Whenever art opposes itself to reality, pathology very often emerges. Whenever an artist proposes his own alternative to God`s, the resulting product includes an unconditional defect. Nothing can be done about it. This is why abstract art, a phenomenon quite limited, synthetic and contrived, is so helpless. Far-fetched systems are infernal, as a rule.

My audience is large enough. Actually, I don`t address anyone in particular. I paint what I like. And I do it all for my own pleasure, and don`t worry about it. And one can always find a reason.

"5 answers from K.Batynkov to questions from A. Petrovichev about the exhibition `Children`", krokin gallery July 2006.
What the critics say: The art of Konstantin Batynkov is rather simple, comprehensible, and abundant, yet when he wants to, he can also make it very delicate and extremely diverse. Batynkov is a vehement and prolific artist, and his fantastic exuberance is motivated solely by his inner motives.

He usually makes up to half a hundred works for a show. It is normal for him. The medium is unimportant; it can be graphics, photography, or painting. The choice of a medium is only a question of the surface, of the mechanism. The real intrigue is in something else. He does not face the dilemma between the subject and the medium. His artistic talent is realized in a far more essential category - he finds himself within the territory of art or outside it, he can be thrilled by form or totally indifferent to it, he can be totally consumed by his subject, or simply involved in the act of unmotivated creation.

Batynkov is his own curator, he is interested in the process itself, in the dialogue, which calls for opponents, for an antithesis. But his hypothetical opponents remain hypothetical; the division between `friend` and `foe` is unclear, and basically irrelevant. Batynkov is both within and outside the situation, he is the programmer and the user at the same time.

Batynkov is absolutely contemporary, but he is uninspired by present day life, and so he comes up with `The Other Life` - the embodiment of his anxiety and an attempt to put everything back in order. The artist takes up `good old` painting, when art was `hand-made`, original, somewhat coarse, but very convincing, bold, and pastose. He paints some ageographic utopia, which is based on real life utopia directly experienced or observed from a different angle, as seen from the territory of `the other life`.

The art of Batynkov is a project devoted to `the other life`. It inspires him and determines the choice of format. There are plenty of plots. This total project features a culture park which is always accessible, yet isolated by the elegantly forged iron fencing. One can swim in fountains, and climb `Buran` spaceship, can bunji jump on one`s suspenders like Tarzan, and still remain unknown. Batynkov does not like putting on a heroic mask. The heroic style of his works is mixed with staffage, the distance between `the sacred and the profane` is virtually non-existent, and `Chanel` and `Shinel`* (*overcoat) come to denote related phenomena.

Alexander Petrovichev
Bibliography: Some texts about Batynkov on the site of “Krokin Gallery”

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