Igor G. Ponosov (ru.wiki)
Born in 1980, Nizhnevartovsk city (Russia).
1999—2001 lived in Kiev (Ukraine), from 2003 lives and works in Moscow (Russia).
1998—2004 studied South-Russian State University of Economics and Service.
2000 Started graffiti.
E-mail: igor@prokvadrat.ru.
Personal blog: igor-ponosov.livejournal.com.
Facebook: Igor Ponosov.
Text about me:
Igor P. is a street artist, an author of several projects and publications about street art. Like the most modern street artists he started his career with traditional graffiti writing gradually shifting to other forms of artistic activity.
The author is in permanent polymedia search experimenting with various techniques and styles. If in early years of his career he was doing “8-bit” painting and performances, nowadays he experiments with three-dimensional suprematist installations and street conceptualism. In spite of chosen stylistics a characteristic of his works is reflection of his own perception of processes occurring in art and society. This way in present time the key note of his art is denial of graffiti culture, its virtual death against the background of inner innovation crisis and commercialization.
— Andrey Tseluiko, 2010.
Игорь П. — уличный художник, автор ряда проектов и публикаций, посвященных стрит-арту. Как и большинство современных уличных художников, начал свою карьеру с традиционного райтинга, постепенно переключившись на другие формы художественной активности.
Автор постоянно пребывает в состоянии полимедийного поиска, эксперементируя с самыми различными техниками и жанрами. И если на раннем этапе творчества фокус его интересов составляли «восьмибитная» живопись и перформанс, то сегодня это пространственные супрематические инсталляции и уличный концептуализм.
Однако, в независимости от выбранного языка, характерной чертой его творчества всегда остается рефлексия собственного восприятия процессов, происходящих в искусстве и социуме. Так, на данный момент центральным лейтмотивом в его творчестве проходит тема отрицания граффити культуры, ее фактической смерти на фоне внутреннего инновационного кризиса и коммерциализации.
— Андрей Целуйко, 2010.
Online interview with me:
Ekosystem.org — blog.ekosystem.org/2009/03/objects-3-interview-with-igor-p/ (English).
Code Red Blog — www.codered.ru/blog/?p=42645 (Russian).
The Village — www.the-village.ru/flows/people-talking/posts/106655-strit-art (Russian).
Curatorial:
2011—... Partizaning — media about urban art and social activity.
2010—... The Wall Project — street-art exhibitions on the wall in Winzavod Contemporary Art Centre.
2005—2009. Objects — book's serie about Russian street-art.
2008. Russian street-art chronology 2005—2008 — exhibition, "M'ARS" gallery, Moscow.
2007. 183's Light-art — exhibition, "RESPUBLIKA*" shop, Moscow.
2007. Skate Objects — action, "Non-Olympic Games" shop, Moscow.
2006. Urban Animals — exhibition, "M'ARS" gallery, Moscow.
Group exhibitions & collective projects:
2011. Long Stories for Perm 2011 — lecture in "Perm Museum of Contemporary Art", Perm, Russia.
2011. Sunday Up Market — lecture in Design market, Rostov-on-Don, Russia.
2011. Paris—Baku UN NOUS — collective exhibition in "KICIK QALART" art-center, Baku, Azerbaijan.
2011. Abstract Graffiti — publication in book by Cedar Lewisohn, England.
2010. MOCKBA — lecture in Dortmund, Germany.
2010. Street Art — The Ephemeral Rebellion — documentary film, ARTE-TV — France–Germany.
2008. Art about Mortality — collective exhibition in "Contemporary Art Museum" — Rostov-on-Don, Russia.
2008. Russian Street-art Chronology — collective exhibition in "M'ARS" gallery, Moscow, Russia.
2007. Winzavod Graffiti — festival in "Winzavod" Contemporary Art Center, Moscow, Russia.
2007. Street-art — collective exhibition in "Tretyakov Gallery" — Moscow, Russia.
2007. Street World: Urban Culture and Art from Five Continents — publication in book, USA.
2006. Street art closed air — exhibition in "Mart" gallery, S. Petersburg, Russia.
2006. Kommisia — festival in "M'ARS" gallery, Moscow, Russia.