Illia Prunenko

Ілля Пруненко

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Concept

Twisted, deformed, melted— they only partially resemble the insides of human bodies. They bear the imprint of a grand deformation, an unexpected and inhuman cataclysm. They evoke a feeling of rejection as all of them ruin familiar symbolic orders by resisting to be understood in the human’s gaze. They balance on a fine line between what is recognizable and what is alienated, escaping our very capacity to shape thinking. Prunenko’s process of painting aims to provide these pictorial shapes with the agency of their own; he paints impulsively, without any preconceived ideas of what might appear on the canvas. He resists the obsession of seeing the painting as a container of time and meaning or of something that needs to be encapsulated and archived. Instead, his figures merge, evolve, grow into each other, and renew themselves, all so to escape memory before the oil dries out.

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“Illia Prunenko's Artworks”

two on black

USD 1,000.00 Year.2023 w34.00 x h45.00 x d2.00 cm

green and red on black

USD 1,000.00 Year.2023 w40.00 x h50.00 x d2.00 cm

blue and red on black

USD 1,500.00 Year.2023 w40.00 x h60.00 x d2.00 cm

Yellow and red on black

USD 800.00 Year.2023 w20.00 x h25.00 x d2.00 cm

Untitled

USD 5,000.00 Year.2023 w150.00 x h150.00 x d2.60 cm

State of madness 3

USD 3,500.00 Year.2023 w80.00 x h75.00 x d2.70 cm

State of madness 2

USD 3,500.00 Year.2023 w80.00 x h75.00 x d2.70 cm

State of madness 1

USD 3,500.00 Year.2023 w80.00 x h70.00 x d2.60 cm

Doom&Gloom

USD 5,000.00 Year.2023 w110.00 x h150.00 x d3.00 cm

Untitled

USD 5,000.00 Year.2020 w140.00 x h150.00 x d3.00 cm

Medium

#Painting

Price Range

USD $800 ~ $5,000

Biography

Ukrainian artist Illia Prunenko paints in a provocative yet humorous manner to explore limits of corporeality, human cognition and representation. Trained in philosophy and religion studies, he largely draws inspiration from early existential philosophy and its preoccupation with Christian ethics, notions of evil, morality, man’s subjective and objective truths.

Prunenko debuted at the end of the 2000’s with two solo shows “Surprise” and “Representation” (2009) and over the course of the next decade he collaborated with a number of galleries in Ukraine. His other shows include “Sense of Christianity” (2010), “Throat” (2010), “Moment of Silence” (2011) and “Too beautiful” (Shift Gallery, 2013), “Blind” (Ya Gallery, 2012), “Full Face” (Karas Gallery) among others. In 2010 he won Ukraine’s regional competition for the 9th Henkel Art Award. His works were featured in “Paintings Only”— a national selection of emerging Ukrainian artists (cur. Oleksandr Soloviov, Art Arsenal). Prunenko was born in 1991 in Dnipropetrovsk (now Dnipro, Ukraine)

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