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Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art is located at: 2, 29th line of Vasilievsky Ostrov, St. Petersburg
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Ilia Gaponov

about the artist

Ilya Gaponov was born in 1981 in Kemerovo, an industrial mining town in the Novosibirsk region. His monumental and intensely detailed paintings are created with bitumen and Kuzbass varnish, both byproducts of coal mining. The monumental scale of Gaponov’s work recalls the epic paintings of historical revolution but with entirely contemporary content. His unaffected observation combines with his superb academic craftsmanship to create deeply moving images of unparalleled sincerity. Frequently working in series and large narrative cycles his paintings are cinematic in scale, but the subjects are rendered with such extreme pragmatism that the paintings themselves ultimately become oddly distanced commentaries on spirituality and morality.

Gaponov graduated from the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris in 2004 and continued his studies at the acclaimed Mukhina Academy in St Petersburg, graduating in 2007. He continues to live and work in St Petersburg. Until 2010 he worked in partnership with Kirill Koteshov, also from Kemerovo.

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Gaponov Ilia

biography

Gaponov Ilya was born in Kemerovo in 1981 and currently lives and works in St. Petersburg.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND FAIRS

2011 – The Throne of Thyatira. Triumph Gallery, Moscow, Russia;
2011 – In the Depths. IX Krasnoyarsk Biennale, Krasnoyarsk, Russia;
2011 – Sandpit. New Holland Summer Festival, St Petersburg, Russia;
2010 – Vive la Jeune Garde. Les Ateliers du Vent, Rennes, France;
2010 – Art Moscow;
2010 – Summer Snow. Maison du Loir-et-Cher, Blois, France;
2010 – A Hero of Our Time. II Moscow Young Art Biennial, Moscow, Russia;
2010 – Futurologia. Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia;
2009 – Kandinsky Prize Exhibition. Louise Blouin Foundation, London, UK;
2009 – Krasnoyarsk Biennial, Krasnoyarsk, Russia;
2009 – The Topography of Happiness. Tsaritsyno Estate, Moscow, Russia;
2009 – Art Moscow;
2009 – Art Factory Festival, Ekaterinburg, Russia;
2009 – Russian Beauty. National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia;
2009 – Europ'Art. Oboima Project Bureau, Geneva, Switzerland;
2008 – Father Frost Lives. Triumph Gallery, Moscow, Russia;
2008 – Three Days. Triumph Gallery, Moscow, Russia;
2006 – Do Not Disturb. Moscow Arts Centre, Moscow, Russia;
2005 – Nutcracker. St. Petersburg Conservatoire, St. Petersburg, Russia.

Ilya Gaponov’s paintings can be found in public and private collections throughout Russia. His work has also been collected by many high profile international collectors.

artworks by this artist

Altar of Thyateira (2)
Ilia Gaponov

2011
From the Series Farewell
Ilia Gaponov

2009
Parallel Kuzbas
Ilia Gaponov

2007

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