Oleksandr Zhyvotkov: “I want just go”.
Oleksandr Zhyvotkov’s picture, complicated, beautiful, wounded, with its cuts and a troubled pain layer, is a philosophical embodiment of the artist’s firm belief in spirituality strengthening and infinity. Zhyvotkov’s painting style comprises icon flatness, severity of artistic means, ascetic restricted palette. His works are in museums of Kyiv, Khmelnytskyi, Sumy. Also they are in the museums of Russia, USA, Austria and in private collections and galleries of European countries, USA, Asia and Africa. He was born in 1964. He is the member of the National Artists Union of Ukraine since 1989. Lives and works in Kyiv.
Education:
1975-82 - studied at Taras Shevchenko Republican Art School, Kyiv, Ukraine
1982-88 - studied at the Kiev State Art Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine
Selected exhibitions:
2008 «Participials», project of Bottega gallery, Festival Art-Kiev, Ukrainian House, Kyiv, Ukraine
«Picturesque sanctuary. Version 2008». Bottega Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
«From private collections», project of Bottega Gallery , Ukrainian House, Kyiv, Ukraine
2006 «Border line», cycle of exhibitions in Poland and Ukraine (Lviv)
2004 «Good-bye, arms!», Center of Arts Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
2002 «10 years of «Picturesque sanctuary», National Art Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine
2001 Exhibition of Ukrainian Artists, «Harrah-Palace Museum», Vienna, Austria
2000 V Art Festival, Ukrainian House, Kyiv, Ukraine
1999 «The Art of XX Century», Art Manezh, Moscow, Russia
1996 «Painting of the Zhivotkovs’ family for the last 10 years», Museum of Russian Art, Kyiv, Ukraine
1993 «Ukrainian vanguard of XX Century», Augustine’s Museum, Toulouse, France
1990 «Three generations of Ukrainian Art», Kyiv-Odence-Copenhagen, Ukraine- Denmark
