Moscow, Russia
www.kawarga.ru
'The attempts to understand the way I think led me to the idea of a possibility to visualize the thinking process. Then I began to materialize my thoughts themselves.' (Dmitry Kawarga)
Russian artist Dmitry Kawarga likes to see himself as an experimental research scientist. In his work, he deals with the main tool of all the arts and humanities: the thinking process itself. What is normally a means to an end, he turns into the end itself.
Kawarga, a profoundly conceptual artist, calls himself a radical of biological morphs. By creating three-dimensional projections of fragments of abstract thought forms, streams of consciousness, thinking processes, fragments of perception and reflexes, he materializes the non-haptic phenomena and makes the unseen visible. However abstract, the biomorphic forms appear natural and real.
For his sculptures Kawarga uses polymer plastic, a highly malleable medium that allows extremely detailed nuances of shape, edge and texture. His work 'Diffusion of Form - Creation' confirms Kawarga’s mastery of the visual language of his materials. In the process of metamorphosis, his 'thought form' – unconstrained by the limits of the artist’s imagined topography of thought – seems to be crystallized for the moment into a static state.
His working process - the research and experiments – has a scientific touch and his installations remind one of a laboratory set-up. When it comes to the meaning of it, however, Kawarga’s sculptures are pure artifacts completely free of rationality. They do not require the viewer to analyze the created visual image, but develop new thinking processes and invisible psycho-physiological mechanisms.
'Thought, after all, may be physically formless, but it has its own emotional coherence generated by a virtual human subject.' (Joel Simpson)
place & year of birth
Moscow Russia
featured galleries
www.barbarian-art.com
education
artistic education
solo exhibitions
2010 - 'Topography of creative evolution' (Kulik’s Hair), GridchinHall, Moscow Area
2010 - 'Ouroboros' Gallery Brissot art contemporain, Paris
2009
'Biostructures' Barbarian-art gallery, Zurich
2009
'Coming into the theme' gallery pop/off/art, Moscow
2008
'Photocompressing' Business hous 'Mohovaja, 7', Moscow
2008
'Trepanation of the Thought-forms' gallery pop/off/art, Moscow
2005
'Biomorphic radicalism in the destructive synthesis' gallery 'Sam Brook', Moscow
2003
'Retrospective Cut' Natural Science University, Moscow Curator I.E.Svetlov
2002
'Project 2x10' Callery А-3
2001
Science-n-Art Project in cooperation with Honored Inventor of Russia V.Beshekov
1999
'Saturated Landscape' Staraja Basmannja St.21, Moscow
1998
Expo in Moscow World Bank Curator T.Karpova
1997
Expo in Beljaevo, Moscow
1993
Kashirka Gallery, Moscow
group exhibitions
2011 - 'The Life. The science version', Winzavod, Contemporary Art Center, Moscow
2011 - 'New sculpture, Chaos and Structure', New Museum, St. Petersburg
2011 - 'Distortions of the Earth', Agency ArtRu, Moscow
2010 - 'Club 21' One Marylebone, St. Martin‘s Church, London
2010 - 'The Kandinsky Prize 2010', Central House of Artists, Moscow
2010 - 'Art Moscow' 14th International Art Fair, Barbarian-Art Gallery
2010 - 'A New Formalism', Museum of a City sculpture, St. Petersburg
2010 - 'VOLTA-6', Basel, Switzerland
2010 - VIENNAFAIR, The International Contemporary Art Fair focused on CEE
2010 - 'Reality metamorphoses,or Games with Time', Zverev's centre of contemporary art, Moscow
2010 - '0,5' Jubilee exhibition, gallery pop/off/art, Moscow
2009 - 'New sculpture, Chaos and Structure', Coluyanka gallery, Moscow
2009
'Good News' OREL ART gallery, London, England
2009
Art Moscow 13 th International Art Fair, pop/off/art gallery
2009
Preview Berlin, Deutschland
2009
Basel Selection Artfair, gallery 'OBOIMA Project Bureau', Basel, Switzerland
2009
VOLTA5, gellery 'Barbarian-art', Basel, Switzerland
2009
'Night of museums' State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
2009
'Evolution of a dream', State Darwin museum
2009
EUROP'ART'09 Grand-Saconnex Geneva, Switzerland
2009
BridgeArtFair, New York
2009
'Atlantis' gallery A3, Moscow
2008
'Intrusion; rejection', Baibakov art project, Fabrika 'Krasny Oktyabr', Moscow, Russia,
2008
Bridge Art Miami, Wynwood, 'Barbarian Art Gallery', Zurich
2008
'Aqua', State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
2008
'Tunguska meteorite', 100-years of falling, Krasnoyarsk
2008
'On Mortality in Art', in memory of N. Konstantinova, Rostov on the Don
2008
'Sleeping District', gallery ArtMarin, Moscow
2007
7th Krasnoyarsk Biennale
2007
Competition on the project to a monument to Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin
2007
Work is exhibited at a show-window of a museum ART4.RU
2007
'Art Moscow', (pop/off/art)
2006
Art Manezh, Moscow
2004
'World of War'Museum Of Decorative Art Curator S. Naumov Moscow
2003
The Size Does Matter' Central House of Artists, Curator S.Popov, Moscow
'Object and Thing', Museum Of Decorative Art, Curator N.Mahov, Moscow
1997
'Action Initiation', Art Laboratory Dominanta, Moscow
1997
'Bleeding of Spring' Malaya Gruzinskaya, Curator G. Vinigradov, Moscow
1996
Art Manezh, Moscow
1996
'Art Moscow', (Dominanta)
1994
'Fun-Art', Central House of Artists, Moscow
1992
Group 'Hummer', Manezh, Moscow
1992
'Golden Brush', Central House of Artists, Moscow
1991
Malaya Gruzinskaya in Manezh , Moscow
1991
'Space and Spirit', Central House of Artists, Moscow
1991
Group 'Hummer', Central House of Artists, Moscow
1988
In Memory of Pyatnitsky, Malaya Gruzinskaya , Moscow
1988
'Labyrinth', Palace of Youth, Moscow
awards
Museum Collections
Museum of Contemporary Art, Art4.RU, Moscow
Museum of Ecology and Local History, Muravlenko, Russia
Museum Center of Krasnoyarsk, Krasnoyarsk, Russia