Anna Silivonchyk
Anna Silivonchik is known for her stark individuality among young Belarusian painters. She is an artist that works in her own, unique, artistic style; creating a separate, special world filled with her own system of images, meanings, and her own universe of the sacred.
In searching for subjects and solutions for her works, the artist reaches back to archetypal layers of her culture while maintaining visible ties to 20th century art. Thus, one can find the aesthetic sources of her inspiration in the whimsical realism of Mark Chagall, the naive art of the Primativist of the early 20th century, and of course in local, national ornamental art and folklore. Many various characters - children, lovers, animal-people, bird-people, angels, lions and mythological being - unicorns, sirenes, dragons - populate the visionary world of Anna. It is a world of folktales from various nations. It is the coming-to-life of childhood fantasies and dreams. It is a reflection of simple and eternal human feelings - love, happiness, joy, birth; the never-changing laws of nature - the day into night, the seasons, life and death. It is a reflection on the difficulties of human relationships, home, the family, the search for the meaning of life, and a conceptualization of the principles of the world's creation. Most importantly for the artist, it is the entirety of the world, a unbroken, deep tie to all of the elements.
The unique and multi-faceted combination of images and thoughts, that Anna creates in every painting (almost always with a slight dash of humor), creates a strong emotional charge through astounding metaphors that give birth to many unexpected associations.
Working in the traditional techniques of oil painting, Anna strives for variety, experimenting with many production materials, including textured and patterned canvasses that are produced specially for each work and create a uniquely expressive, living language dominated by the bright voices of the paints. Her very delicate feel for color, forethought of line, and intimate details help express a distinct mood.
One of the artist's unique attributes is her skill at improvisation. A thought or an idea opens itself, and becomes embodied in this or that image, starting to come to life directly on the canvas, giving birth to new images, which may not have space on one limited canvas, thus creating a series of painting with each work as an independent, complete creation, and also part of a larger bold, unending world, where everything is possible. Here, the most unattainable dreams become reality, and simple, every-day items become symbolic thoughts.
This is the endless story of human relationships with the world, of the harmony and joy of life in all it's forms.
Volga Naskova
SILIVONCHIK, ANNA DMITRIEVNA
Born 1980 in Gomel, Belarus
1992-1999 - Republic's College of Art
1999-2007 - Belarussian Academy of Art
1999 - Participated in regional and national exhibits
1999 - Personal Exhibit, Fuseen Germany
2001 - Personal Exhibit, Gomel University
2001 - Personal Exhibit, Regional Museum, Rechitza, Belarus
2001 - ART - Sessions, Vitebsk, Belarus
2002 - Student Conference, Academy of Art, Minsk, Belarus
2003 - Republic-wide Women's Exhbit, Minsk
2004 - Republic-wide Exhibit, "Padorozhha", Minsk, Belarus
2004 - Personal Exhibit, Regional Museum, Rechitza, Belarus
2005 - Student Exhibit, The Tizengous Gallery, Grodno, Belarus
2005 - Student Exhibit, at the Vilnius Gallery, Minsk, Belarus
2005 - ART - Sessions, Vitebsk, Belarus
2005 - Republic-wide Women's Exhibit, Minsk, Belarus
2005 - "My City," University of Culture”, Minsk, Belarus
2005 - Personal Exhibit, "Conceptions," Minsk, Belarus
2006 - "Pozirk" Show, Mansard of Artists, St. Petersburg, Russia
2006 - "Christmas Holidays," Bel Art, Brest, Belarus
2007 - International Exhibit "Eastern Neighbors," Utrecht, Netherlands
2007 - Personal Exhibit, Embassy of the United States, Minsk, Belarus
2007 - Personal Exhibit, Mastastva Gallery, Minsk, Belarus
2007 - Personal Exhibit of Graphics "Panaroshku," Podzemka Gallery, Minsk, Belarus
2007 - Participated in the 4th Annual Tashkent International Festival of Modern Art
2008-Personal Exhibit,”University of Culture”, Minsk , Belarus
2008-Personal Exhibit ,Museum of Modern Art, Minsk , Belarus
2008-“Moskow International Art Salon”CHA-2008”
2008-“My.by-meetings with Belarus”, “St. George Residencee”, Budapest, Hungary
Works are held in Museum of Modern Art, Minsk , Belarus
In searching for subjects and solutions for her works, the artist reaches back to archetypal layers of her culture while maintaining visible ties to 20th century art. Thus, one can find the aesthetic sources of her inspiration in the whimsical realism of Mark Chagall, the naive art of the Primativist of the early 20th century, and of course in local, national ornamental art and folklore. Many various characters - children, lovers, animal-people, bird-people, angels, lions and mythological being - unicorns, sirenes, dragons - populate the visionary world of Anna. It is a world of folktales from various nations. It is the coming-to-life of childhood fantasies and dreams. It is a reflection of simple and eternal human feelings - love, happiness, joy, birth; the never-changing laws of nature - the day into night, the seasons, life and death. It is a reflection on the difficulties of human relationships, home, the family, the search for the meaning of life, and a conceptualization of the principles of the world's creation. Most importantly for the artist, it is the entirety of the world, a unbroken, deep tie to all of the elements.
The unique and multi-faceted combination of images and thoughts, that Anna creates in every painting (almost always with a slight dash of humor), creates a strong emotional charge through astounding metaphors that give birth to many unexpected associations.
Working in the traditional techniques of oil painting, Anna strives for variety, experimenting with many production materials, including textured and patterned canvasses that are produced specially for each work and create a uniquely expressive, living language dominated by the bright voices of the paints. Her very delicate feel for color, forethought of line, and intimate details help express a distinct mood.
One of the artist's unique attributes is her skill at improvisation. A thought or an idea opens itself, and becomes embodied in this or that image, starting to come to life directly on the canvas, giving birth to new images, which may not have space on one limited canvas, thus creating a series of painting with each work as an independent, complete creation, and also part of a larger bold, unending world, where everything is possible. Here, the most unattainable dreams become reality, and simple, every-day items become symbolic thoughts.
This is the endless story of human relationships with the world, of the harmony and joy of life in all it's forms.
Volga Naskova
SILIVONCHIK, ANNA DMITRIEVNA
Born 1980 in Gomel, Belarus
1992-1999 - Republic's College of Art
1999-2007 - Belarussian Academy of Art
1999 - Participated in regional and national exhibits
1999 - Personal Exhibit, Fuseen Germany
2001 - Personal Exhibit, Gomel University
2001 - Personal Exhibit, Regional Museum, Rechitza, Belarus
2001 - ART - Sessions, Vitebsk, Belarus
2002 - Student Conference, Academy of Art, Minsk, Belarus
2003 - Republic-wide Women's Exhbit, Minsk
2004 - Republic-wide Exhibit, "Padorozhha", Minsk, Belarus
2004 - Personal Exhibit, Regional Museum, Rechitza, Belarus
2005 - Student Exhibit, The Tizengous Gallery, Grodno, Belarus
2005 - Student Exhibit, at the Vilnius Gallery, Minsk, Belarus
2005 - ART - Sessions, Vitebsk, Belarus
2005 - Republic-wide Women's Exhibit, Minsk, Belarus
2005 - "My City," University of Culture”, Minsk, Belarus
2005 - Personal Exhibit, "Conceptions," Minsk, Belarus
2006 - "Pozirk" Show, Mansard of Artists, St. Petersburg, Russia
2006 - "Christmas Holidays," Bel Art, Brest, Belarus
2007 - International Exhibit "Eastern Neighbors," Utrecht, Netherlands
2007 - Personal Exhibit, Embassy of the United States, Minsk, Belarus
2007 - Personal Exhibit, Mastastva Gallery, Minsk, Belarus
2007 - Personal Exhibit of Graphics "Panaroshku," Podzemka Gallery, Minsk, Belarus
2007 - Participated in the 4th Annual Tashkent International Festival of Modern Art
2008-Personal Exhibit,”University of Culture”, Minsk , Belarus
2008-Personal Exhibit ,Museum of Modern Art, Minsk , Belarus
2008-“Moskow International Art Salon”CHA-2008”
2008-“My.by-meetings with Belarus”, “St. George Residencee”, Budapest, Hungary
Works are held in Museum of Modern Art, Minsk , Belarus