Dmitriy Grek
Sculpture — Travel
What prompts people to conquer new lands? The yearning for new impressions? Attempts to gain a new understanding of oneself? Journeys intensify feelings, and emotions change our worldview. Much like real art, which can inspire actions, a long journey reveals new facets of one’s personality. The experience one gains under either scenario is to be treasured.
I think that sharing the impressions and experience gained is an important role of a traveller. A journey may help one reach authentic life. A boat traveling through space should be interpreted as a cradle of civilization, society and family. The waves rocking the boat represent both the strong and independent elements, and the surrounding society. Humankind straddles both spaces, existing both overboard, in the restless world brimming with adventures, and in the boat, at home, at peace.
Ukrainian artist Snigir Dmitriy Anatolyevich was born in 1978.
In 1993 he enrolled at the Myrhorod Art College Department of Art Ceramics. He graduated in 1997 and entered the Kharkiv Art and Industry Institute at the Faculty of Fine Arts and Crafts. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Indoor and Monumental Sculpture in 2001.
The same year Snigir transferred to the National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture (Kyiv), which he graduated in 2004, earning the qualification of Artist - Sculptor in Fine Arts and Crafts.
Since 2006, Dmitriy Snigir participates in exhibitions under the pseudonym Dmitriy Grek.
In 2005, 2006 and 2007 he participated in creative plein air workshops on stone sculpture under the direction of A. Sukholit, which resulted in a series of landscape sculptural projects.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2020
Ukraine Today, Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv
2019
Contemporary Ukranian Art of 1985 - 2015 from Private Collection, Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv
CONTEMPORARY VENICE 2019, Palazzo Ca 'Zanardi, Venice, Italy
Modern Ukrainian Symbolism and Mikhail Vrubel, National Museum of Kyiv Art Gallery, Kyiv
Melody of Being, Triptych Art, Kyiv
Diva, Mystets Gallery, Kyiv
Art project Modern Ukrainian Symbolism, Museum of Contemporary Ukrainian Art Korsakov, Lutsk
2018
Small, wintry, sculptural, Triptych Art, Kyiv
Step, Triptych Art, Kyiv
More than sculpture. Art Ukraine Gallery, Kyiv
2017
Private Collection. Contemporary Ukrainian Artists. Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv
Clay Adam, solo exhibition, Triptych Art gallery, Kyiv
2015
Great Sculptural Salon, Arsenale, Kyiv
Self-portrait of the Artist Group project, Triptych Art gallery, Kyiv
2014
All-Ukrainian triennial of sculpture, exhibition halls of the Central House of Artist (National Union of Artists of Ukraine)
Breathing of Earth, Exhibition Hall of Taras Shevchenko Museum, Kyiv
Breathing of Space, solo exhibition, Triptych Art gallery, Kyiv
2011
All-Ukrainian triennial of sculpture, diploma of II degree for the "Girl on a roe deer" sculpture
2010
Spring exhibition, exhibition halls of the Central House of Artist, Kyiv
2008
All-Ukrainian triennial of sculpture, exhibition halls of the Central House of Artist, Kyiv
2006
Youth, all-Ukrainian art exhibition, exhibition halls of the Central House of Artist, Kyiv
2005
All-Ukrainian triennial of sculpture, exhibition halls of the Central House of Artist, Kyiv
2004
All-Ukrainian Autumn Art Exhibition, exhibition halls of the Central House of Artist, Kyiv
2002
All-Ukrainian Triennial of Sculpture, Exhibition Halls of the Central House of Artist, Kyiv
2001
New Art of an Independent Country, Kharkiv City Art Gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2000
Prologue, Kharkiv State Polytechnic University, French Center, Kharkiv, Ukraine
1999
Kabardino-Balkaria Museum of Fine Arts
Artist’s works are in private collections in Alicante (Spain), Tuscany (Italy), Kyiv (Ukraine), Moscow (Russia), Miami (Florida, USA), Toronto (Canada)