Igor Gusev

Born in 1973 inShevchenko City,USSR

1992 graduated from Grekov state art institute inOdessa

1994-1998 studied in Vera Muchina Art andDesignAcademy, St.Petersburg

Lives and works inOdessa

 

Selected Solo Exhibitions：

- Decorative Realism, Bereznitsky  GalleryBerlin, 2008

- ActuaLove,OdessaArt Museum, 2006

- Azeton, Tsekh Gallery,Kiev, 2005

- Katja Solov’eva, Na Ujutnoj Gallery,Odessa, 1999

 

On the one hand Katja Solov`eva, the Ukrainian artist works from found photographs, Solov'eva finds many of her images in the pages of Ogonyok (Little Flame), one of Russia’s oldest weekly illustrated magazines. These Soviet images – all originally black and white – represent a long gone, staged and propagandistic version of reality as it was constructed by the State. In her appropriations, Solov'eva rejects both hollow critique and passive nostalgia, seeking instead to actively re-engage in the humanistic optimism of this lost imaginary.