Living Artists Contemporary Investment art Auction July 2024 Edition
Lot 178:
SHIPS FROM London, UK This work is based on the flea-market found photograph from 30-s, of assumingly the father saying goodbye to his kids and leaving for the army service, judging from his uniform. The intuitive color decisions and open painterly gestures reflect the artist’s emotion toward the photograph. Katya Granova (b.1988) is a painter, currently based in London. She holds an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London (2021), a Certificate from the Paris College of Art (2015), MA Art&Space from Kingston University London. Recent exhibitions include solo shows Voices from a Suitcase, Shtager&Schc, London (2023), When My Babushka joined the Reich, Barbican Art Group Trust, London (2022), and group shows London Grands 2021, Saatchi Gallery(2021) and Little Explosions, The Bomb Factory South, London, UK (2022). She is a winner at Bath Open Art Prize(2023), Art Works Open (2021), and Signature Art Prize (2020), a finalist at the Castlegate Art Prize (2020) and Women United Art Prize (2023), got in a short list of for the Bankley Prize 2019, and long list of Contemporary British Painting Prize (2023) and John Moores Painting Prize(2020). She has held art residencies with the Barbican Art Group Trust (2022), Sommer Atelier Aschersleben (2022), Dukley Art Residence, Montenegro (2020), and Art Residency Normandy (2020). In 2020, she collaborated with Burberry UK as an artist and in 2021 the Royal College of Art purchased her work "Surgeons" for their permanent collection.In her painting practice she uses old photographs as base compositions for large scale visceral paintings. For Granova the act of painting is a performative bodily intrusion into the documentation of someone else?s unapproachable past to give it a fictional dimension and reapproach the concept of historical memory
Condition: Good, As in the images
Dimensions: 90 x 90 cm
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