Sergey Grinevich

Sergey Grinevich (Belarusian: Сяргей Грыневіч; born 25 February 1960, in Grodno) is a Belarusian painter.

Sergey Grinevich
Born (1960-02-25) 25 February 1960
Grodno, Belarusian SSR, USSR

Biography

Grinevich was born in 1960 in the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic near Grodno. From 1971 to 1978 he was a student in the city's Republican school of Fine Art. In 1978 he began his studies at the Belarusian State Academy of Arts (Department of monumental painting), where he graduated in 1983. He has taken part in art exhibitions since 1982.[1]

Work

Sergey Grinevich is now one of the most influential artists in Belarus. Together with Juri Jacovenko, Valentina Choba, Vladimir Panteleev and Victoria Iliyna, he is a member of an artist group there.[2] In his paintings, he combines motifs from the past (famous personalities, military, banal everyday motifs) and creates in a sampling principle using the colorful and serial principles of Andy Warhol or the style of the striking and symbolically shortened visual worlds of Erik Bulatov and Alex Katz icons of a socially critical life and present. His criticism is directed against the ubiquitous consumer world, the power of the military and traditional religious symbols, and against environmental degradation. He transforms elements of the iconography and the insignia of socialist realism, mixes the motifs to images based on several levels and accentuates the paintings often ironica.

  • Artist about himself: I have painted all my life and, oddly enough, with every year there appear more and more mysteries in this profession for me. Perhaps this permanent intrigue, and the desire to get closer to the unknown keeps me in the profession, which in the great scheme of things is not actually a profession, but my life choice ...[3]

Notable exhibitions (group and solo)
Natalya Sharangovich, The Director of Museum of Contemporary Art, Minsk and Sergey Grinevich. Solo Show in Museum of Contemporary Art, Minsk 2013

2019

2018

Literature
  • Friedrich Kisters: Sergey Grinevich Blick und Richtung, published in Switzerland by Human Bios GmbH, Kreuzlingen (2013) Language: German ISBN 3-03742-002-2; ISBN 978-3-03742-002-7 Hardcover: 200 pages

References
  1. Sergey Grinevich www.artkurator.com Retrieved January 31, 2020
  2. Friedrich Kisters: Sergey Grinevich Blick und Richtung, publishing company: Human Bios GmbH, Kreuzlingen, Switzerland (2013) Language: German ISBN 978-3-03742-002-7 P. 6.
  3. Artist about himself www.xo-gallery.com, Retrieved February 01, 2020
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