EMOTIONISM AND SPONTANIOUS REALISM.
GENNADIY V. IVANOV
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'Gennadiy Ivanov’s paintings have a distinctive communicative power. Within the raw energy of colour and motion Gena captures his subject with elements of pure stillness - an absolute likeness suggesting sensations or emotions that are instantly recognisable. This immediacy gives Ivanov’s work an unusually broad appeal, as audiences are drawn to paintings that are brilliantly beautiful and perfectly legible.'
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​   Gennady’s works is a wide variety of media, including paintings, installations, drawings, and photography. Bringing these media together into a provocative collision, Gennady’s work mine a territory defined by not only the specters of recent world political history but also the deeply flowing social veins of underground style as manifested in the popular culture realms of street art fashion and experimental dance and music. 
Gennady’s works walk a tightrope between Russian-West-East remembrance and the rigorous anti-logic of dream analysis while also touching on art historical references ranging from Van Gogh to Frances Bacon. 
It might be possible to trace Gennady’s focus on the vagaries of memory, history and subcultural style to his parallel life as a poet, fiction writer, and historian. His curatorial projects 2014-2018 evidenced a refined display of the artists multitasking painterly practice as well as his oneiric* Historical analytic. The artist brought into proximity a series of canvases that ranged from quasi-psychedelic non-representational liquid (oily) pours to expressively figurative large-scale canvases. The artworks painterly invocations of phyla-political analysis of the history of the 20-21st century globalist’s masculinity. To his credit, he creates a level of narrative ambiguity in these works that is suggestive without being dogmatic.
   Gennadiy combines formal elegance with innovation, and as many modes of representation, from sketchy to smooth and realistic. This simultaneous application of different style and the use photographic imagery as a starting point continues to under grid his practice. A number of large-scale paintings based on images from the scenes of urban life. Inserting multiple layers of experience between him-self and the object (and hence the viewer and the work) underscores the intermediate status of the images and extends the journey of that image as it travels toward its final, painted ‘destination’. The combination of distorted and blurred effects with more precisely rendered passages in a given painting acts as something of a metaphor for the ways in which people experience ‘real’ events, focusing on certain details while perhaps only peripherally glimpsing others, and how those moments are shaped by their means of delivery. 
His works addressed the acts of looking and seeing, and considers the way in which painting can stake a claim for itself amid the proliferation of contemporary visual formats. Elements from public activities such a walking, literature, music, history, mythology, philosophy and travel appear in this work as a way to make there elements accessible to a broad audience.
Nationality:
British
Education:
2010-2011 Graduated for a MA Fine Art Norwich University of the Art.
Membership:
2000 Member of The Union of Young Artist of Belarus
2010 Member of The Outpost Studios
​2017 Member of Norwich 20 artists group
​2017 Member of East Anglia Art Fund
Grants: 
2018-2019 The Canadian Centre for Water Forecasting and Prediction at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada
2018 The Norfolk County Council  Arts Project fund
2017 The Norfolk County Council  Arts Project fund
2017 East Anglia Art Fund

2016 The Norfolk County Council  Arts Project fund
Research expeditions and residency:
 March-April 2019:
-visit national reserves in arctic, Canada’s boreal forest, Rocky mountains near Calgary, Yukon Whitehorse Wolf Creek Hydrology and Climate Laboratory,
September 2019:
-observe polar bears at North, Churchill on Hudson Bay, Canada.

Solo Exhibitions:

2019 'Transitions'. The Norwich Cathedral Hostry art space
2019 'Transitions'  The Canadian Centre for Water Forecasting and Prediction at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada
2019 'Transitions'  The Coldwater Laboratory in Canmore, Alberta, Canada
2019 Residency at the Canadian Centre for Water Forecasting and Prediction at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada
2018 'Bedlam', The Undercroft Gallery, Norwich

2018  Wymondham Arts Centre
2017 'Art of Revolution' , Bang&Olufsen, Norwich
2017 'Floral Emotions' Maddermarket theatre,Norwich
2015 The Cactus Cafe, Magdalen street , Norwich

2015 " The gentle touch", Bobruisk, Belarus
2014 'First love and other stories',Stew gallery,Norwich,UK

2013 'Follow Van Gogh footsteps in Provence'Studio Art Gallery,Norwich
2012 "Dialogue",SAG
2011 "Naked Autograph",NUCA,Norwich "Metamorphosis",
2010 “Happy Campers” London, A-Art Gallery
"Metamorphosis",SAG, Norwich
"Open Studio",Outpost Studios,Norwich
"Norfolk Life",The Forum,Norwich
2008 “Soul mate” The Forum ,Norwich
“Favourites” Café-Pizzeria “Expresso”,Norwich
2007“Carnival” ,SAG
“Summer Time”, A-Art Gallery, London,
“Norfolk Air”, The Forum ,Norwich, UK
2006“My Studio”, SAG, Norwich,
Featured Artist on “Pictures of Norfolk”, Norwich,
“New Paintings”, A-Art Gallery, London,
2005 Resident Artist, SAG



Group Exhibitions:

2020 
Transitions, The Undercroft gallery, Norwich 
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2019 
YNAFestival The Forum, Norwich
​N20 artists group show, The Undercroft gallery, Norwich 
​N20 artists group at Hostry art space, Norwich Cathedral
Art Fair, Bath UK
Contemporary Art fair, Surrey, Easher, UK

2018
The Bedlam, The Undercroft Gallery, Norwich
​'Pattern', Wymondham Art Centre, Norfolk
20 into 18 artists group exhibition, Norwich Royal theatre
H2O exhibition, The Undercroft Gallery, Norwich
​Nasty Women Norwich, The Undercroft Gallery
​Rejuvenation, UNA Gallery, Shoe Factory Social Club exhibition
Changes, N20 artists group at the Undercroft, May 2018
N2018G at the Forum, Norwich
​N20 artists group at Hostry art space, 2018-19
Connection: Open Call 2018 Wells Maltings, Norfolk, Wells-next-the-sea



2017
'The Art of Revolution', The Undercroft gallery, The Forum, Bang&Olufsen shop, Norwich
'Paint Body Paint'-Nunns yard, Norwich
En Plein Air at Russia
'Light' N20 artists group exhibition,The Undercroft gallery
N20 Annual exhibition , The Forum
'Scene&Seen' exhibition, the Nunn's yard, Norwich
'Bohemian Agenda',Em-Re-Un, St Margarets church, Norwich
'Back to the USSR' Raf air defence museum, Norfolk, Horning
Paint Out Norwich 2017, plain air competition, October, Norwich
​Paint Out Norwich, Hostry, Norwich
​IEA Open Art Exhibition ,Picturecraft gallery, Holt
Inside the box, The Forum, Norwich

2016
En Plein Air at Bali, Indonesia
'Beneath the surface', the Undercroft gallery, Norwich, UK
​The Urban Art Fair, Norwich,UK
'Asylum', The Undercroft Gallery, Norwich, UK
The Spring Art Show, The Forum, Norwich
'40 years art studios' Group of Bobruisk artists exhibition, Belarus, Bobruisk
​En Plein air at Florence, Italy
En Plein air at Rome, Italy
The Royal Norfolk Show, Norfolk, UK

​2015
The spring art show, The Forum, Norwich
The Royal Norfolk Show
'War and Peace',The Undercroft, Norwich
Windsor Art fair
Buy Art Fair , Manchester
Open Studios, Norwich - Norfolk
'Dreams:Hurt, Hope & Happiness', The City Arts and The Institute of mental Health, Nottingham
En Plein air,Paint Out Competition, Norwich (Judges Commendation prize)
Norwich Cathedral exhibition, Paint out
Norwich Maddermarket Theatre exhibition, Paint Out
The Paint, Undercroft gallery, Norwich

2014
Fairhurst Gallery, X-mas show, Norwich
New Forest Plein Air, Hempshire,UK
Knapp Gallery, Regent's park, London
En Plein Air at Ludlow Castle
En Plein air at New Forest, Avon water
Reading Contemporary Art Fair
Windsor Contemporary Art Fair
Anteros art foundation, Norwich
Royal Norfolk Show, Norfolk
'The Musturd' cafe,Norwich
Stew Gallery,Norwich
The Undercroft Gallery, Norwich Fringe Festival

2013
The Cut Gallery,Halesworth,Suffolk
'PAINT',The Forum,Norwich
Open Studios,The Green House,Norwich
'Beyond the Facade',Blickling Hall,Norfolk
Reading Contemporary Art Fair
Free of Colours, Belarus, Bobruisk
Plein Air at Saint-Remy de provence,France
Plein Air at Porto, Portugal
'From land to sea',Aldeburgh Gallery,Suffolk
Windsor Contemporary Art Fair
Love Art Fair,Milton Keynes.
Edinburgh Art Fair, Arusha Gallery
Knapp Gallery, Regent's park, London

2012
Edinburgh Art Fair
Grand Designs Art Fair
Open Art Space,Cambridge Artworks LTD
'Tides in", Adelburgh gallery,Suffolk
Plein Air at Saint-Remy de provence,France
The International Postcard Show, Surface Gallery,Nottingham,
The Spring Art Fair, St Margarets Church,Norwich
Horseplay,i2Art Gallery, Saffron Walden
"Royal Norfolk Show"Norwich

2006-2011
Exhibiting across UK and Europe



Competition/Prizes:

2018  Money grant from The Canadian Centre for Water Forecasting and Prediction at the University of Saskatchewan
2017 Norwich Critical Camp Rainbow Awards/Artist of the year 2017
​2016 The Norfolk arts awards 2016, The EDP People's Choice Awards. Nominated as a Best artist with Asylum exhibition by public.Top 3 artists (http://www.edp24.co.uk/going-out/edp_people_s_choice_awards_finalists_are_revealed_1_4708471)

2015 Pre-selected for the Royal Society of portrait painters exhibition at the Mall Galleries, London
​Paint Out competition, Norwich. Judges commendation prize (Marcus Dickey Horley-TateModern)

Highly Commented Award , 'Dreams:Hurt, Hope & Happiness', The City Arts and The Institute of Mental Health, Nottingham
2013 'Cork Street Open Exhibition-short-listed
2012 'Cork Street Open Exhibition-short-listed
Art Space ,Cambridge Artworks LTD-short-listed
Commission 'Ideas Factory NUCA'
2011 'The National Open Art Competition' - short-listed
2007 “Art For City Living”, Money prize, The Forum, Norwich


Other Creative Ventures & Skills:

Gennadiy Ivanov is an independent Painter, Curator, Exhibitions Organiser and Arts Consultant with an ability to inspire and engage people in the Arts. As an Artist and Curator he is able to develop creative concepts, plan and deliver successful inspiring events and exhibitions, often involving large numbers of creative people to diverse audiences. His 25 years experience of working in the arts is particularly valuable as it straddles the worlds of Arts and Business, feeling equally comfortable in the gallery as well as the artists studio. Alongside his interest and natural ability to work within the context of Arts and Business Gennadiy also has a passion and belief in community projects.

2017 Curation an exhibition at the Undercroft gallery 'Revolution' (25 artists)
2016 Nominated for the Norfolk Art Prize, public choice, Norfolk Hostry festival 2016 Top 3 artist
2016 Organised and curated exhibition at the Undercroft gallery 'Asylum' (27 artists)

2016 Illustrated talk about War and Peace and Asylum exhibition, 07/06/2016, N20 artists group, Norwich
2015 Won the individual Judges prize at Paint Out Norwich 2015. The Judge was Marcus Dickey Horley.
2015 Organised and curated exhibition at the Undercroft gallery 'War and Peace' (21 artists)

2015 Mural-painting fro the project 'War and Peace' for the exhibition at the Undercroft gallery (20 metres x 1.60cm)
2014 Organised and curated exhibition at the Stew Gallery 'First love and Other Stories' (3 artists)
2012 The Lecture 'Made in USSR' and the Masterclass-Vilnius Humanitarian University, Lithuania
2009 Designed the interiors of “Vine Cellar”, Norwich, UK
2011 "Beyond The Fire Station",mural commission for The Fire Station, Tooley Street, London

Collections:
Various private collections UK, USA, Europe, Russia, Belarus
Bobruisk art Museum (Belarus)
Bobruisk museum of local lore
Belarus bank art collection, Minsk, Belarus
Norwich Institute for Language Education
Chelyabinsk Art Centre, Russia
Moscow Infoglass Company, Russia (Art of Russia)
Saatchi Art Online - Artwork Featured


Publications:

http://www.edp24.co.uk/going-out/hostry-festival-set-to-return-for-a-seventh-year-1-5114017
N20 annual exhibition catalogue 2018 
N20 annual exhibition catalogue 2017 
​The Hostry Festival brochure 2017 (cover painting and the mural for 'The eagle has two heads')

 INTERVIEW: Gennadiy Ivanovhttps://bandonorwich.wordpress.com/2017/06/22/interview-gennadiy-ivanov-mafa/
The Art of revolution online book 12/01/2017

and many more publications: please, ask for more information...














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