Sergey Grinevich


Sergey Grinevich is a Belarusian painter.

Biography

Grinevich was born in 1960 in the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic near Grodno. From 1971 to 1978 he was a student in the city's Republican school of Fine Art. In 1978 he began his studies at the Belarusian State Academy of Arts, where he graduated in 1983. He has taken part in art exhibitions since 1982.

Work

Sergey Grinevich is now one of the most influential artists in Belarus. Together with Juri Jacovenko, Valentina Choba, Vladimir Panteleev and Victoria Iliyna, he is a member of an artist group there. In his paintings, he combines motifs from the past and creates in a sampling principle using the colorful and serial principles of Andy Warhol or the style of the striking and symbolically shortened visual worlds of Erik Bulatov and Alex Katz icons of a socially critical life and present. His criticism is directed against the ubiquitous consumer world, the power of the military and traditional religious symbols, and against environmental degradation. He transforms elements of the iconography and the insignia of socialist realism, mixes the motifs to images based on several levels and accentuates the paintings often ironica.
2019
2018

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