Artwork information
- Author
- Dmytro Starusiev
- Project
- When We Returned to the Cave
- Name
- Untitled
- Year
- 2020
- Medium
- ambrotype
- Dimensions
- 100x60 cm
- Provenance
- The photographer's private archive
- Catalog number
- STAD-04
- Inscription
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- Key words
- abstraction
About the artist
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Dmytro Starusiev (b. 1984, Makiivka, Donetsk region) is a Ukrainian artist. He began his career in the field of cinema. Since 2005, Starusiev has been interested in photography, starting work on the Donbas series (2005–2014). In 2012, he graduated from the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography with a specialization in directing. From 2016 to 2018, he studied in Sergiy Bratkov’s workshop at the Rodchenko Art School of Photography and Multimedia.
Starusiev combines a wide range of media, from video and stained glass to analogue photography. In his photographs, Starusiev emphasizes their materiality, physical presence, and tactility by creating large-scale prints. This effect is enhanced by the abstractness of the images, which are born in dialogue with the photographic process itself.
He was nominated for the ContempUkrPhoto Award by Bird in Flight (2019) and the PinchukArtPrize (2018 and 2020).
Selected personal exhibition:
2016 — “Фольклорная экспедиция. Часть 1: Лес. Часть 2: Зеленоград. Донбасс / Folklore expedition. Part 1: Forest. Part 2: Zelenograd. Donbas,”, as a part of Foto Biennale 2016, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
2019 — “Світло пекельного цвітіння / The Light of Hell’s Blossoming”, Artsvit Gallery, Dnipro, Ukraine
Selected group exhibitions:
2016 — “Поле зрения / Field of Vision”, Lumiere Gallery, Moscow, Russia (curators — Maxim Whippet and Ludmila Zinchenko)
2016 — “ПРО ШР. 10 ЛЕТ ШКОЛЕ РОДЧЕНКО / About RS. 10 Year Anniversary of Roschenko School”, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia (curator — Sergiy Bratkov)
2016 — “кулкрейзитумач / coolcrazytoomuch”, Svalka space, Moscow, Russia (curator — Florian Reither)
2017 — “Mir: The Village and the World / Мир и міръ: художественное открытие российской деревни”, Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale, Museum Centre Peace Square, Krasnoyarsk, Russia (curators — Maria Bukova, Ursula Hübner, Марія Букова, Урсула Хюбнер, Sabine Jelinek, Sergey Kovalevsky, Simon Marz, Vladimir Tarnopolski, Svetlana Teylor, Tobias Urban, Astrid Wege, Karin Zimmer)
2017 — “Дослідницька платформа: Versus”, as a part of PAC-UA Re-Thinking, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine (curator — Sergiy Bratkov)
2017 — “Близости невозможность / Impossibility of Intimacy”, Center for Creative Industries Fabrika, Moscow, Russia (curator — Karina Karavayeva)
2017 — “Космос. Love / Cosmos. Love”, ARTPLAY Digital Art Centre, Moscow, Russia
2017 — parallel program Brat Film Fest, Regina Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2018 — “Where Plato Taught—Teaching Art: Is it Art or is it a Fart?”, as a part of Academiae Biennial, Fortezza, Italy (curator — Christian Jankowski)
2018 — “Руины: опыт воссоздания / Ruins: Attempts of Re-creation”, Tula Machine Museum, Tula, Russia (curator — Svetlana Taylor)
2018 — “Тестовая группа / Test Group”, Ekaterina Cultural Foundation, Moscow, Russia (curator — Kirill Preobrazhenskiy)
2019 — Ukrainian House, Davos, Switzerland
2019 — “Вера в глубоком кризисе / Faith in Depp Crisis”, Viktoria Art Gallery, Moscow, Russia (curator — Vera Trahtenberg)
2019 — “Учебная тревога / Drill”, Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2019 — “Время по линии сердца / Time According to the heart Line”, Ruarts Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2020 — “Almost There”, online exhibition as a part of Museum Without Walls project, organised by British Council
2021 — “Чутливість / Sensitivity”, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine ( “Soot” project) (curators — Maksym Gorbatskyi, Solomia Savchuk, Oleksandr Soloviov)
2022 — “Близко. Далеко. Ближе / Near. Far. Closer”, Viktoria Art Gallery, Moscow, Russia (curator — Sergiy Bratkov)
2023 — “Kaleidoscope of (Hi)stories”, Albertinum, Dresden, German (curators —Tatiana Kochubinska, Maria Isserlis)
Глеба, Галина [Hleba, Halyna]. “Ритуал очищения, или Light Hell Blossom постскриптум”. Your Art, December 30, 2019. https://supportyourart.com/columns/light-hell-blossom/.
“Дмитро Старусєв ‘Три сестры’”. УкрСучФото, 2019. https://ukrphoto.birdinflight.com/discovery_starusiev/.
Тейлор, Свет [Taylor, Svey]. “Донбасс. Фотограф Дмитрий Старусев простился с городом своего детства”. Colta, November 16 листопада 2016. https://www.colta.ru/galleries/specials/13078-donbass#ad-image-0.
Яковленко, Катерина [Iakovlenko, Kateryna]. “Дмитрий Старусев: ‘Я присваиваю, трансформирую и формирую реальность по моему образу’”. L’Officiel, October 6, 2017. https://officiel-online.com/news?id=9066.
Яковленко, Катерина [Iakovlenko, Kateryna]. “Поки ти спав: у дніпровській галереї ‘Артсвіт’ відкрилася виставка фотографії”. Лівий Берег, May 28, 2019.https://lb.ua/culture/2019/05/28/428094_poka_spal_dneprovskoy_galeree.html.
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