Ihor Podolchak

Ihor Podolchak (Ukrainian: Ігор Подольчак, Polish: Ihor Podolczak) (born April 9, 1962) is a Ukrainian filmmaker and visual artist. He is a co-founder of the creative association Masoch Fund.[1]

Ihor Podolchak
Podolchak at the movie set Delirium 2008
Born (1962-04-09) April 9, 1962
Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Alma materThe Lviv National Academy of Arts
OccupationFilm director, screenwriter, producer, painter, printmaker, photographer
Years active1984 – present
Notable work
Las Meninas, Delirium
StyleNonlinear, Psychological, Surrealistic
Spouse(s)Tamara Podolchak (1984-present)

Ihor Podolchak was named as one of the 10 most prominent Ukrainian filmmakers[2] by Forbes Ukraine in 2014, member of Ukrainian Film Academy.

Biography

Podolchak was born in Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, USSR (now Ukraine). He graduated from Lviv Academy of Fine Arts (then Lviv State Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts) with distinction in 1984. From 1984 to 1985 he served in the Soviet Border Troops on the Soviet-Polish border.

From 1985 to 1986 he worked in the Art Fund of the Union of Artists of Ukraine. Since 1986 - a free artist and curator of contemporary art. Participant and laureate of numerous international exhibitions, organized and held a number of international exhibitions in Ukraine, Russia, USA, Norway.

After establishing the Masoch Fund, together with Igor Durich, he actively conducted various artistic projects in Ukraine, in Russia, in Germany. Since 1997, he has been engaged in the integrated design of the visual-image component of political election campaigns[3] in Ukraine and Russia. Since 2006, he writes scripts, shoots and produces movies:

Visual arts
S. S. 2002, acrylic on canvas, 75х130 cm

Podolchak works in different genres of fine art - painting, prints, photography, video art and art actions. At the beginning of his career, the graphics prevailed,[4] and from the mid-1990s makes art actions and performances, from the late 1990s video art.

In the center of Podolchak's creativity, is a human body[5] in its various manifestations, relationships with other bodies, as well as in different stages of decomposition.[6] In the artistic development of the theme of decomposition and decay there are only two types of matter, two definite formations of "flesh" - human and architectural. They are the receptacles of all sorts of energies, the connections of various semiotic codes - the most clearly demonstrated manifestations of regressive forces. The propensity to the metamorphoses of decomposition reveals and, in a special way, mythologizes the "corporeality" of these two organisms, and the inconstancy of the point of view on their relations in this state (fluctuations from allegory to thriller), constantly improves the iconography of Podolchak's aesthetics in general.[7]

The artist's book Jacob Bohme was awarded as World's Best Book (Bronze Medal) by Stiftung Buchkunst Frankfurt am Main at Frankfurt Book Fair. One of his 24 personal exhibitions was the first art exhibition ever to be held in space, at space station Mir[8] on January 25, 1993. Artworks of Podolchak can be found in 26 museums and public collections worldwide.

Cinema
Poster Las Meninas
Poster Delirium
Poster Merry-Go-Round

Both Podolchak's films have common characteristic features: departure from narrative, anthropology of enclosed worlds, elaborated composition of frame, unusual shooting angles. The spaces of Las Meninas and Delirium are similarly dense, difficult for movement, tiresome both for the characters moving within them and the viewers watching them. This reflects the time of "the end of history" with its somnambulism, impotence, morbidity and hopelessness.

Las Meninas
Main article: Las Meninas (film)

Las Meninas is Podolchak's debut full-length film. He wrote, directed and produced it. The film had a world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in the competition program on January 25, 2008.[9] Overall, it has participated in 27 international film festivals, including 10 competition programs.

Delirium
Main article: Delirium (2013 film)

Delirium is Podolchak's second full-length feature. Its script is based on the story Inductor by the Ukrainian writer and journalist Dmytro Belyanskyi. The film's production lasted during 2008–2010. For the first time fragments of the film were demonstrated in 2012 on the 45th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the program Films in production. New full-length films from Central and Eastern Europe.[10] After the prerelease screenings, Ukrainian film critics compared the second film of Podolchak to the works of Alain Robbe-Grillet, Pedro Costa and Nikos Nikolaidis.

Position 5 in Top-10 Ukrainian films of 2012 by «Афіша@Mail.Ru».[11]

Merry-Go-Round
Main article: Merry-Go-Round (2017 film)

The first short length film (2017. Ukraine, Poland. 5 min). It was premiered at Revelation Perth International Film Festival on July 9, 2017[12] and was nominated for the Best Ukrainian Short Film[13] at Odesa International Film Festival.

Selected prizes and nominations

Prizes:

Nominations:

Sources
External video
Art in Space
Space station «Mir», 1993 (in Russian)
External images
Prints 1990
Painting 1994-1995
  • 100 Імен. Сучасне мистецтво України періоду Незалежності. (100 names. Contemporary Ukrainian Art from the Independence Time.) Київ: Видавництво «Мысль», 2008 ISBN 978-966-8527-62-3 (in Ukrainian)
  • Bang-Heun C. Igor Podolchak. Catalog. Seoul: Gaain Gallery, 1992
  • Böhme Jakob; Podolczak Igor; Tomkowski Jan. Artist's Book. Lodz: Correspondance des Arts II, 1993. OCLC 245835402
  • Callaghan B. Fifteen Years in Exile. Toronto: Exile Editions, 1992 ISBN 1-55096-025-3
  • Dyurych I,; Podolchak, I. Art in Space. Special Edition for São Paulo Biennial. Kyiv: Masoch Fund, 1994
  • Dyurych, I.; Podolchak, Ihor. Последний еврейский погром (The Last Jewish Pogrom). Kyiv: Masoch Fund, 1995 (in Russian)
  • Dyurych, Ihor; Podolchak, I.; Тistol, О. Igor Podolchak : immoral-immortal. Lviv: Masoch Fund, 1999. ISBN 966-537-115-0
  • Ewins, R.; Colless E. Igor Podolchak. Ukrainian Printmaker. Catalog. Hobart: University of Tasmania, 1991
  • Flashback. Українське медіа-мистецтво 1990-х. Ukrainian media art of the 1990s. Catalog. Curators: Oleksandr Solovyov, Solomiya Savchuk. Київ: ДП НКММК Мистецький Арсенал, 2018. — 180 p. ISBN 978-966-97778-1-2, Pages 16, 24, 40-41, 117
  • Fur, G. Dictionnaire du BDSM. Paris: La Musardine, 2016, pp. 3, 108, 153, 274. ISBN 2842718259, ISBN 978-2842718251
  • Grenzgänger: acht Künstler aus der Ukraine. Linz: Büro für Kulturelle Auslandsbeziehungen des Landes Oberösterreich, 1994. ISBN 3-901246-09-6
  • Matuszak, G.; Wozniak, Taras. Igor Podolchak. Lodz: Biuro Wystaw artystycznych, 1988
  • Mikhaylovska O.; Podolchak, I.; Taranenko, A.Corpus delicti : post-erotic art photography. Prague: Masoch Fund, 1998. ISBN 978-966-7167-16-5
  • Pethő, Ágnes. The Cinema of Sensations. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015, pp. 155–182, ISBN 978-1-4438-6883-9, ISBN 1-4438-6883-3
  • Pomiędzy. Polonistyczno-Ukrainoznawcze Studia Naukowe. Warsaw: University of Warsaw, Nr 1 (2015), pp. 137–146 Ciało cierpiące jako widowisko w malarstwie Igora Podolczaka i Wasylija Cagolowa / Marta Zambrzycka. ISSN 2543-9227 (in Polish)
  • Raine, C.; Podolczak, Igor. Gilgamesh. Lodz, Poland : Book Art Museum, 1995. OCLC 82268972
  • Rosiak, M. Igor Podolczak. Grafika. Catalog. Poznan: Galeria'72, 1989
  • Rudel, J. Apocalypses: Rencontres Du Manege Royal.. La Garenne-Colombes: Editions de l'Espace européen, 1991 ISBN 2-7388-0139-0 OCLC 31674573
  • Voznyak, T. Ihor Podolchak. Catalog. Lviv: Ukrainian Independent Center of Contemporary Art, 1991. OCLC 224935917 (in Ukrainian)
  • Лук'янець В., Носко К. Де кураторство. (Where is the curatorial). — Х.: IST Publishing. 2017. — 256 p. Pages 40–47. ISBN 978-966-97657-0-3 (in Ukrainian)
  • Mистецька мапа України: Львів — живопис, графіка, скульптура. (Art Map of Ukraine: Lviv - painting, prints, sculpture.) Kyiv: I︠U︡velir-pres, 2008. ISBN 978-966-96579-4-7 (in Ukrainian)

References
  1. The Festival Jury Wiz-Art 2011 Archived 2012-04-26 at the Wayback Machine wiz-art.com.ua Retrieved December 5, 2011
  2. Юрій Володарський. Рейтинг Forbes: 10 найвизначніших кінорежисерів України. «Forbes Ukraine», July 23, 2014. Retrieved July 26, 2014 (in Ukrainian)
  3. Чивокуня, В. Політтехнологи на виборах-2006: хто працював на Януковича, Ахметова, Тимошенко, Медведчука…. sd.org.ua 12.05.2006 Retrieved August 30, 2013(in Ukrainian)
  4. Norman, G. ART MARKET / An allegory of Russia’s broken dreams: An exhibition of Russian and Ukrainian prints, produced during the tumultuous years 1987—1992 «The Independent», Sunday, 4 September 1994. Retrieved August 30, 2013
  5. Гуцул, E. Творили два товарища… Ага. «Зеркало недели», № 36 (205) 5 — 11 сентября 1998(in Ukrainian)
  6. Бриних, М. Трiумф пост-еротичного м'ясожерства, або труп гниє — мистецтво квiтне. «Україна молода», 2000.06.15(in Ukrainian)
  7. Сидор-Гібелінда, О. Файні хлопці з Бандершадту. «Журнал Fine Art», #2, 2008(in Ukrainian)
  8. YouTube — Art In Space Ihor Podolchak 1993
  9. Константинова, Катерина. Український «натюрморт» вперше в Роттердамі Archived 2012-12-22 at Archive.today. «Дзеркало Тижня», № 3 (682) 26 січня — 1 лютого 2008. Retrieved November 3, 2009 (in Ukrainian)
  10. 45th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Films in production. New full-length films from Central and Eastern Europe. www.kviff.com 2010. Retrieved December 27, 2012
  11. Топ-10 украинских фильмов 2012 года Retrieved December 27, 2012 (in Russian)
  12. Revelation Perth International Film Festival 2017 revelationfilmfest.org Retrieved July 23, 2017
  13. Odesa International Film Festival 2017 oiff.com.ua Retrieved July 23, 2017
  14. Baghdad International Film Festival
  15. 11 Norwegian International Print Triennale. Fredrikstad: Norske Internasjonale Grafikk Triennale, 1995. pp. 269, 343, OCLC 47160369
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  19. Fantasporto 2013 Director's Week Competition, IMDb Archived 2013-04-24 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved March 6, 2013
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