Dmitriy Grek

Sculpture — Travel

What prompts people to conquer new lands? The yearning for new impressions? Attempts to gain a new understanding of oneself? Journeys intensify feelings, and emotions change our worldview. Much like real art, which can inspire actions, a long journey reveals new facets of one’s personality. The experience one gains under either scenario is to be treasured.

 

I think that sharing the impressions and experience gained is an important role of a traveller. A journey may help one reach authentic life. A boat traveling through space should be interpreted as a cradle of civilization, society and family. The waves rocking the boat represent both the strong and independent elements, and the surrounding society. Humankind straddles both spaces, existing both overboard, in the restless world brimming with adventures, and in the boat, at home, at peace.

Биография Работы автора

Ukrainian artist Snigir Dmitriy Anatolyevich was born in 1978.

In 1993 he enrolled at the Myrhorod Art College Department of Art CeramicsHe graduated in 1997 and entered the Kharkiv Art and Industry Institute at the Faculty of Fine Arts and Crafts. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Indoor and Monumental Sculpture in 2001.

The same year Snigir transferred to the National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture (Kyiv), which he graduated in 2004, earning the qualification of Artist - Sculptor in Fine Arts and Crafts.

Since 2006, Dmitriy Snigir participates in exhibitions under the pseudonym Dmitriy Grek.  

In 2005, 2006 and 2007 he participated in creative plein air workshops on stone sculpture under the direction of A. Sukholit, which resulted in a series of landscape sculptural projects.

 

 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

 

2020

 

Ukraine Today, Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv

 

2019

 

Contemporary Ukranian Art of 1985 - 2015 from Private Collection, Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv

CONTEMPORARY VENICE 2019, Palazzo Ca 'Zanardi, Venice, Italy

Modern Ukrainian Symbolism and Mikhail Vrubel, National Museum of Kyiv Art Gallery, Kyiv 

Melody of Being, Triptych Art, Kyiv 

Diva, Mystets Gallery, Kyiv 

Art project Modern Ukrainian Symbolism, Museum of Contemporary Ukrainian Art Korsakov, Lutsk

 

 

2018

 

Small, wintry, sculptural, Triptych Art, Kyiv

Step, Triptych Art, Kyiv

More than sculpture.  Art Ukraine Gallery,  Kyiv

 

2017 

 

Private Collection. Contemporary Ukrainian Artists. Modern Art Research InstituteKyiv

Clay Adam, solo exhibition, Triptych Art gallery, Kyiv

 

 

2015

 

Great Sculptural Salon, Arsenale, Kyiv

Self-portrait of the Artist Group project, Triptych Art gallery, Kyiv

 

 

2014

 

All-Ukrainian triennial of sculpture, exhibition halls of the Central House of Artist (National Union of Artists of Ukraine)

Breathing of Earth, Exhibition Hall of Taras Shevchenko Museum, Kyiv

Breathing of Space, solo exhibition, Triptych Art gallery, Kyiv

 

 

2011

 

All-Ukrainian triennial of sculpture, diploma of II degree for the "Girl on a roe deer" sculpture

 

 

2010

 

Spring exhibition, exhibition halls of the Central House of Artist, Kyiv

 

 

2008

 

All-Ukrainian triennial of sculpture, exhibition halls of the Central House of Artist, Kyiv

 

 

2006

 

Youth, all-Ukrainian art exhibition, exhibition halls of the Central House of Artist, Kyiv

 

 

2005

 

All-Ukrainian triennial of sculpture, exhibition halls of the Central House of Artist, Kyiv

 

 

2004

 

All-Ukrainian Autumn Art Exhibition, exhibition halls of the Central House of Artist, Kyiv

 

 

2002

 

All-Ukrainian Triennial of Sculpture, Exhibition Halls of the Central House of Artist, Kyiv

 

 

2001

 

New Art of an Independent Country, Kharkiv City Art Gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine

 

 

2000

 

Prologue, Kharkiv State Polytechnic University, French Center, Kharkiv, Ukraine

 

 

1999

 

Kabardino-Balkaria Museum of Fine Arts

 

Artist’s works are in private collections in Alicante (Spain), Tuscany (Italy), Kyiv (Ukraine), Moscow (Russia), Miami (Florida, USA), Toronto (Canada)