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		KAWARGA Dmitry

Biographical information: Dmitry Kawarga was born, lives and works in Moscow, Russia.
Graduated from Art and Theatre College.
A member of International Federation of Artist & national Artist`s Union of Russia since 1996.
1999 – began his work in 3-d
2007 – the winner of the Art4.ru competition on the best monument to the epoch of Boris Eltsin.
Since 2007 has been working in his own style of ‘art-science’
Collections where works are held: Museum of Contemporary Art, Art4.RU, Moscow
Museum of Ecology and Local History, Muravlenko, Russia
Museum Center of Krasnoyarsk, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Participation in exhibitions and auctions: SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2009 - "Biostructures" Barbarian-art gallery, Zurich
2009 – "Coming into the theme" gallery pop/off/art, Moscow
2007 - "Trepanation of the Thought-forms" gallery pop/off/art, Moscow
2005 - "Biomorphic radicalism in the destructive synthesis" gallery "Sam Brook", Moscow
2003 - "Retrospective Cut" Natural Science University, Moscow Curator I.E.Svetlov
2002 - "Project 2x10" Callery À-3
2001 - Science-n-Art Project in cooperation with Honored Inventor of Russia V.Beshekov
1999 - "Saturated Landscape" Staraja Basmannja St.21, Moscow
1998 - Expo in Moscow World Bank Curator T.Karpova
1997 - Expo in Beljaevo, Moscow
1994 - Murals in Theatre "Perovskaja St."
1993 - Kashirka Gallery, Moscow

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2009 - "Good News" OREL ART gallery, London, England
2009 - Art Moscow 13 th International Art Fair, pop/off/art gallery
2009 - Preview Berlin, Deutschland
2009 - 3 Moscow Biennale of contemporari art
2009 - Basel Selection Artfair, gallery "OBOIMA Project Bureau", Basel, Switzerland
2009 – VOLTA5, gellery "Barbarian-art", Basel, Switzerland
2009 – "Night of museums" State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
2009 – "Evolution of a dream",State Darwin museum
2009 – "EUROP`ART`09" Grand-Saconnex Geneva, Switzerland
2009 – "BridgeArtFair" New York
2008-2009 - "Invasion : Evasion" BAIBAKOV art projects Moscow
2008-2009 - "Atlantis" gallery A3, Moscow, Curator T. Kostrikova
2008 – Bridge Miami Beach
2008 – "Cyberfest" Youth Educational Centre of State Hermitage Museum
2008 – "Power of Water" State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, curator I. Kiblizky
2008 – "Tunguska meteorite", 100-years of falling, Krasnoyarsk, curator S. Kovalevsky
2008 – "Art About Mortality", in memory N. Konstantinova, Rostov on Don, c. Sapojnilov
2008 - "Sleeping district", gallery ArtMarin, Curator A. Panov
2007 - Competition on the project a monument to Boris Nikolaevichu Yeltsin
2007 - Work is exhibited at a show-window of a museum ART4.RU
Autobiographical notes: By naming myself a radical of biological morphs I have delineated an imaginary circle of my creative endeavours and distanced myself from any mainstream art.
I like to see myself as an experimental research scientist immersed into my own experience, as a biological instrument of art capable of bringing into life unseen psycho-physiological mechanisms, by ‘dragging’ their three-dimensional projections into reality.
The object of my study is the area accessible to tuning – consciousness, perception, thinking process as well as the psycho-physiological arrangement of other beings, including inanimate objects. I have had special, ‘intimate and warm’, relationship with art since I was a child. Each new artwork gradually changes my perception of reality and alters my reaction to life. These changes, in their turn, transform my priorities in art. I am curious where this chain of interrelationship will eventually lead me…
Up to 1999 I mostly painted, but my paintings were getting more textured, as if they were inflated and swollen, as if the surface of the painting ceased to be flat and developed reliefs. While a part of the surface remained to be flat, the other – the textured and raised one - strove to break free by turning into a three-dimensional sculpture. The moment it happened with the painting, my own imaginary obstacle was swept away. I realized that in the same way I could ‘drag out’ into three-dimensional world not only the images and symbols of visible material world while staying within the traditional framework of visual art, but also what lies at the very source of it, what causes it – materialized fragments of abstract thought forms, stream of consciousness, thinking process, fragments of perception, reflexes, Gestalt. And these would not necessarily be sculptures and installations, but peculiar artefacts extracted through immersion into consciousness and subconscious. My works are a synthesis of art and science and presuppose a bio-reversible contact with the beholder, they emit noises of various frequencies, tremble and react to the human touch and the rhythm of the blood flow.
The new series of interactive sculptures is titled ‘Unfulfilled intentions’ and includes amorphous and intentionally uncompleted structures containing robots inside them. They react to the touch of the beholder’s palm, to his/her voice, breathing and pulse by shuddering, moving, pulsing and humming as if being impregnated by each human contact, as if accumulating information from human bodies. Thus my creations are inexhaustible and ever changing, they absorb the energy, thoughts and rhythms of human contact.
What the critics say: Dmitry Kawarga is a visionary in abstract polymer plastic, an extremely malleable medium that allows exquisitely detailed nuance of shape, edge and texture. It is completely white, so that form and shadow are the entire drama (except for his installation, see below). His art seems to be that of molding the rich store of forms generated by turbulent heating and pulling the medium, ending up with frozen (or “crystallized” in his terminology) forms that—if the viewer permits herself to see beyond the chaos—are marvelously expressive...
Joel Simpson // Dmitry Kawarga’s Polymer Sculptures and Model of Biomorphic Consciousness
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