Illya Chichkan

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rdf:langString Illya Chichkan (Ukrainian: Ілля Аркадійович Чичкан, born 29 August 1967 in Kiev, Ukraine) is a representative of the art movement "Ukrainian New Wave", which developed in the 1990s. He is a third generation artist. He lives and works in Berlin, Germany, and Kyiv, Ukraine, as a painter, author of installations, photo and video-projects. In 2014, Chichkan along with his wife Masha Shubina, had visited India, a trip of which he was dreaming since childhood. There, during winter season, he paints his paintings. Ilya Chichkan have a daughter, Sasha, a co-author of Psychodarwinism. In a dialogue Marat Gelman with Kostyantyn Doroshenko they expressed interesting thoughts about the exhibition New «Psychodarwinism». The Ukrainian artist took it as a basis famous paintings of the Tretyakov Gallery grotesquely depicting the main characters in the form of monkeys. Analyzing the artist's blasphemous gesture Doroshenko remarked: "Imperial totalitarian society puts art on a pedestal as something that rises above life and directs it… « Psychodarwinism» - a proposal to abandon elitism and hierarchies.».