Daniil Galkin
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2023
1985
Ukraine
Voloshyn Gallery
Optical Prostheses series
Since the full-scale russian invasion of Ukraine, Galkin kicked off his work on a series that explores interior items of the Soviet era's industrial design — at this time focusing on stained-glass windows found in hospitals, military commissariats and fire departments, which formulate a holistic statement in the context of current wartime.
The grisaille hommages feature stained-glass from Dnipro region, with glass sooted and sky blackened with smoke as a result of being hit by shock waves of missile attacks or as a consequence of being broken down and dismantled within the ongoing decommunization program in Ukraine. By transferring fragments of stained-glass panels to canvas, the artist does not only attach a new meaning to them, but also confers the status of artwork which they had never possessed before.
The name of the project tells about the distortion of history, for example, through the lens of Kremlin propaganda and ...
Danylo Halkin (also Daniil Galkin, born 1985 in Dnipropetrovsk, USSR) is a contemporary Ukrainian artist and curator, studied at the Dnipropetrovsk Theater and Art College and the Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture. Works with public space, using spatial installations, happenings, subject-oriented art, etc. He collaborates with state and municipal art institutions, drawing attention to the objects of Soviet heritage of Eastern Europe for their further rethinking and museification. Founding an independent NGO Pridneprovskiy barvinok (2018) and exhibition space "Barvinok Art Residence” (2020). Winner of the Grand Prix MUXI-2011; shortlisted for PinchukArtCentre 2011 and 2013 prizes, for Kuryokhin Prize and Kandinsky Prize in 2012. Winner of the Third Special PinchukArtCentre Prize in 2013. Finalist of the Malevich Award in 2014 and M17 Sculpture Prize in 2020. Shortlisted for PinchukArtCentre 2015. Winner of the Special Art Future Prize and shortlisted for M17 Sculpture Prize in 2020.