Andrey Novikov
The artist's works are held in private collections in Russia, Israel, England, France, Switzerland, Montenegro, Denmark, Germany, USA, Greece, and Kazakhstan.
GRAVITY PROJECT
The modern person's tendency to perceive the world around them consists of a complex of sensations. The most important of these are feelings of loneliness and loss, the desire to find ideals that unite society, goals, and new – forward-looking – heroes.
In our era, there is a yearning for great achievements in all areas of human activity. The Old World, weary with a multitude of problems and archaic attitudes, is small and inconvenient. It resembles an old, eclectic building with crumbling plaster, broken window frames, and a decaying ceiling. It is like a rotten tooth that has long awaited replacement. As Friedrich Nietzsche said, humanity is something that must be overcome.
There is a need for a new hero, a Titan, a kind of Superman who can cleanse the old world and illuminate everyone's path with a bright light. As seen with characters from the Marvel universe, Ridley Scott's film "Prometheus," and similar examples, various reflections of such hero visualizations are increasingly appearing in popular culture.
According to Sergei Dovlatov, gravity is a relative concept: something floats in the sky while something else is strongly affected by atmospheric pressure.
Artist Novikov's "Gravity" project, featuring characters that are very reminiscent of humans but are not actually human , visualizes human aspirations. Here, the ability to control objective laws of physics by rising into the air is subject to the New Hero. These omnipotent figures are of colossal size and are often depicted floating in the air. With their radiance, they break through the laws of physics and clear the debris of the old world.
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibition, “Cultural Layer”, Museum of Architecture — Moscow
Solo Exhibition, “Soft and Not Really Soft”, Gallery K35
Group Exhibition, Zaryadye Park — Moscow
Solo Graphic Exhibition, “Swimming is Allowed”, Art.City.People — Berlin
Group Exhibition, “Sphere and Kross”, Maxim Boxer Art Fair Project Peredelkino — Moscow
Group Exhibition, “Golden Childhood”, InGallery — Moscow
Group Exhibition, “Mountains. Heroes. Symbols”, IFA and Russian Academy of Arts, Art Museum — Sochi
Group Exhibition, “Alterglobalism”, Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University, Belyaevo Gallery — Moscow
Solo Graphic Exhibition, “Let’s Go, Let’s Go…”, ChU-Gallery — Moscow
Traveling Exhibition, “Caucasian Riviera”, IFA and Russian Academy of Arts — Sochi / Moscow
Group Exhibition, “Exhibition of Seven Collectors”, Museum of Fine Arts — Moscow
Group Exhibition, “InArt Selected: Quarantine Edition”, Winzavod — Moscow
Traveling Exhibition, IFA and Russian Academy of Arts, “Red Gate. Against the Stream” — Moscow / Saransk / Togliatti / Stavropol
Solo Exhibition, “Sunstroke”, Larin Gallery — Krasnodar
Solo Exhibition, Art Space “El” — Saint Petersburg
Group Exhibition, Russian Academy of Arts — Krasnodar
Group Exhibition, “Samfair” Contemporary Art Fair, Streetart Museum — Saint Petersburg
Group Exhibition, Cube Moscow Gallery — Moscow
Traveling Exhibition, IFA and RAA, “Picturesque Russia” — Moscow / Saransk / Saratov / Stavropol
Traveling Exhibition, IFA and RAA, “Nature of Binary” — Saint Petersburg / Kaliningrad / Tolyatti / Stavropol / Moscow
Group Exhibition, “PortraitNow2019” — Frederiksborg / Denmark
Group Exhibition, “Dreams Without Freud”, Erarta Museum of Modern Art — Saint Petersburg
Solo Exhibition, “Sunstroke”, Erarta Museum of Modern Art — Saint Petersburg
Group Exhibition, “51Russia”, R1 Art Gallery — Saint Petersburg
Group Exhibition, “Sport is Youth”, Erarta Museum of Modern Art — Saint Petersburg
Group Exhibition, Eurasian Festival of Contemporary Art, Expo Center — Yekaterinburg
Group Exhibition, “Slavic World”, Expo Center — Rostov-on-Don
