NIKITA ADAN

NIKITA ADAN

Nikita Kadan's works are museum exhibits, material evidence showing reflections of the past in current events . . . Kaden's main theme is the history of Ukraine in its social, political and, above all, artistic dimensions. The artist draws on the history of the Ukrainian avant-garde to explore the political paradoxes of the past. In his work, he uses both the concrete evidence of archival sources and his poetic imagination. With their help, he reconstructs the biographies of Ukrainian avant-garde artists and 20th-century monuments. He also draws upon elements of architecture and interior design familiar to those living in the former Eastern Bloc countries. A chest of drawers with a glass display case or ornamental window bars become, in Kadan's work, the starting point for a story about how the everyday and the private merge with politics and history.

Adan, Nikita

http://nikitakadan.com/

Image & text: https://msl.org.pl/the-fire-and-the-ashes-nikita-kadan/

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