‘世界尽头的风景’— 叶夫根尼·格拉尼利什奇科夫
From The LACUNE project. This project speaks of human and historical fragility, of the brittleness of memory, of things that have not been preserved but continue to gape-with their glowing voids-through the centuries. LACUNE is a gap, a screaming emptiness that makes us reflect on how we continue to live among the ruins of history.
Perhaps art meets philosophy precisely at the point where something emerges out of nothing. In this series of drawings, I set myself a simple task: how can vertical lines and a gradient create, in our imagination, the sense that we are looking at a landscape? How can it be done so that we can see swamps and mists eroding the sharp silhouettes of black trees? The simpler and more precise my gradients and lines became, the more believable the landscape looked. I thought about drawing a forest — a forest that, for me, would signify a symbolic space where only memory exists. These are post-apocalyptic landscapes in which the scripts for the future have been lost. Everything has already happened, and as if together with the mists, from the depths of these minimalist images comes an apocalyptic sense of calm.
Born on 1985, in Moscow, Russia.
Evgeny Granilshchikov is a multidisciplinary artist based in Clermont-Ferrand and Paris, FR.
He graduated from the Rodchenko Art School in 2013 and works across media ranging from drawing, moving images to video installation and performance which constitute the current focus of his practice.
Granilshchikov was the winner of the Kandinsky Prize in 2013 and a finalist for the Innovation Prize in 2016. His time-based project Unfinished Film was screened during the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and goEast Festival of Central and Eastern European Film, where it won the Open Frame Award in 2016.
In 2022 he received a scholarship from the French embassy and now lives in France, where he is working on several films focused on themes such as home loss and the phenomenon of collective and historical trauma.
Education
Rodchenko School of Photography and Multimedia, Moscow.
Institute of Journalism and Literature, Moscow
Lyceum of Animation Cinematography, Moscow
Statement
In my practice, I strive to find simple gestures or metaphors to express a rather personal experience of living through history. Every performance or series of drawings is associated with specific socio-political events.
In my works I have dealt with the themes of injustice and police brutality, collective historical traumas and civil resistance; I have talked about the most basic things such as compassion and heroism of the common man, about love and loss, about the relentless march of time, impossibility to stop and understand all things in the world.
