Korshunov, Yevhen
Born in Brovary in 1989, Yevhen Korshunov earned his Master's degree from the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture in 2016, and has been active in the contemporary art scene since 2014. His work explores themes such as everyday life, kitsch, transavantgarde aesthetics, "bad" painting and drawing, aggressive masculinity, religion, and self-expression and mystification in social networks. His work spans various media, including graphic arts, painting, video, installation, sculpture, and land art.
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"This is a series of my drawings and paintings. At the beginning of the war. I found myself quite far from the active combat for two weeks, but within the environment and actions of people, I observed nuances reminiscent of war in a peaceful place. I depicted these moments in my works."
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"This drawing depicts the white wall of a historical building in Mariupol, which turned black from the fire brought to the city by the Russian Federation."
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"During the winter and spring of 2022, I saw many videos and photos of Ukrainian fields generously scattered with the bodies of Russian occupiers (the Russians did not retrieve the bodies of their fallen soldiers). The bodies lay there for a long time, preserved by the freezing temperatures. When the weather finally warmed up, entire swarms of flies rose above the fields of Ukraine."
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"In the spring of 2022, everything around reminded me of the war, even the clothes drying outside my window..."
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"The series 'Stages of Anger' was painted by me after watching a broadcast by journalist Vitaliĭ Portnikov. For the drawings, I used still frames from his speech. It seems like he is angry, shouting, etc. But he was just talking about the unleashed by Russian Federation war in Ukraine."
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"These drawings depict fields in Ukraine plowed by shells. Bare trees without leaves, November occurred not due to autumn, but because of war."
"I created several replicas of my painting from 2015. I gave this particular piece as a gift to my colleague with whom we used to launch quadcopters near the Youth Creativity Palace (КПДЮ) at that time. We launched them and contemplated how this technology would evolve. We came to the conclusion that quadcopters would be used as couriers and for surveillance. However, over time, their usage turned out to be much more diverse."
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"This drawing I created based on a photo I took during a blackout in Lviv after the shelling of critical infrastructure by the criminal Russian Federation. A couple stood and kissed near the generator, in one of the few bright spots in Lviv."
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"The drawing depicts a beetle (May bug) screaming in horror during the May rocket shelling of Kyiv by the military criminals of the Russian Federation."
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"This work was inspired by the piece 'Sunlight in forests' (1916) by American artist Charles E. Burchfield. For me, this work evoked associations not with morning freshness, but with the impact of artillery."
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"I depicted a fragment from a video (shot at the beginning of the invasion into Ukraine) in which a Russian puts the letter "z" as a brand on another Russian. The video captured a senseless act of violence against oneself, done to demonstrate loyalty to the government and express support for the war. Although the Russian authorities did not request such actions, for these individuals at that time, the war seemed distant and romantic."