Artwork information
- Project
- Elections
- Name
- № 1
- Year
- 1997
- Medium
- archival pigment print
- Dimensions
- 46х31 cm
- Provenance
- Private archive of Sergiy Bratkov
- Catalog number
- BRSO-02
- Inscription
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On the verso side: inscription “Сергей Братков из серии ‘Выборы’ 1997 # 1” and signature of Sergiy Bratkov
- Key words
- briefcase, child, costume, Kharkiv School of Photography, man, Sergiy Bratkov, Sergiy Solonsky, shirt, socks, suit jacket, tie
About the artist
№ 1
Sergiy Bratkov and Sergey Solonsky — Kharkiv photographers, who worked together in the early-mid 1990s. One of the factors that has united them were launching one of the first galleries for contemporary art in Kharkiv “Up/Down”. Located in the studio of Sergey Bratkov, it became the location for the authors’ experiments, performances and environments. Together with Boris and Vita Mikhailov, were members of The Fast Reaction Group.
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Photo credit — Fast Reaction Group, 1995
1994 — “Неоекспресіоністська фотографія” (разом з Борисом Михайловим), Харківський художній музей, Kharkiv, Ukraine
1994 —“Фотонеоэкспрессионизм” (Photoneoexpressionism), together with Boris Mikhailov, Up/Down gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine
1995 — “Если бы я был немцем” (If I Were a German), as part of Fast Reaction Group, Marat Guelman gallery, Moscow, Russia
1995 — “If I Were a German”, as part of Fast Reaction Group, Brotfabrik gallery and Andreas Weiss, Berlin, Germany
1995 — “Выборы” (Elections), Up/Down gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine
1996 — “Рафаэль” (Raphael), as part of Fast Reaction Group, Up/Down gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine
1995 — “Синдром Кандинского”, Historical Museum of Odesa, Odesa, Ukraine (curators — Oleksandr Roitburd, Mykhailo Rashkovetskyi)
1997 — “Факельна виставка”, as a part of V International Biennale “Імпреза-97”, Centre for Youth Aesthetic Education and studio-gallery “Сігма”, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
2012 — “Художники за честные выборы”, галерея “Paperworks”, центр сучасного мистецтва “Виназавод”, Москва, Росія
2016 — “Дослідницька платформа: Провина” (together with Boris Mikhailov), PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine (curator — Tetiana Kochubinska)




