ArtCult Gallery

Oleg Tistol

From the Concentration of the Will at MARIFrom the "Ai-Petri" series2022, canvas, oil, acrylic, 40 x 50 cmPrice on request

Carpet

North Africa150 x 120 cmPrice on request

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    Oleg Tistol works with stereotypes and myths, using well-established mass ideas and cultural codes in his works. Palm belongs to the leading motifs of his works, which are combined into large-scale cycles. Palm as such, regardless of its geographical location, is mostly associated with rest, holiday, paradise. 
    Thus, in the works of the master palm trees appeared in the series "Yu.B.K.", which acquired a sharp socio-political character, as well as in the series that the master creates after travelling. The work is decorated with Petrykivka ornament - floral folk ornament, one of the famous artistic symbols of Ukraine.

Anatoly Gankevich

North Africa150 x 120 cmPrice on request

  • Read more about the artwork

    Oleg Tistol works with stereotypes and myths, using well-established mass ideas and cultural codes in his works. Palm belongs to the leading motifs of his works, which are combined into large-scale cycles. Palm as such, regardless of its geographical location, is mostly associated with rest, holiday, paradise. 
    Thus, in the works of the master palm trees appeared in the series "Yu.B.K.", which acquired a sharp socio-political character, as well as in the series that the master creates after travelling. The work is decorated with Petrykivka ornament - floral folk ornament, one of the famous artistic symbols of Ukraine.

Illustration

North Africa150 x 120 cmPrice on request

  • Read more about the artwork

    Oleg Tistol works with stereotypes and myths, using well-established mass ideas and cultural codes in his works. Palm belongs to the leading motifs of his works, which are combined into large-scale cycles. Palm as such, regardless of its geographical location, is mostly associated with rest, holiday, paradise. 
    Thus, in the works of the master palm trees appeared in the series "Yu.B.K.", which acquired a sharp socio-political character, as well as in the series that the master creates after travelling. The work is decorated with Petrykivka ornament - floral folk ornament, one of the famous artistic symbols of Ukraine.

Olexiy Ivaniuk

About the artist

Oleg Tistol is a Ukrainian contemporary artist. He was born in Vradiivka, Nikolaev region, Ukraine, in 1960. Graduated from the Kyiv Republican Art School in 1978. Graduated from the Lvov State Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts in 1984. Tistol's art, which emerged at the edge of the Soviet and post-Soviet epochs, combined both a critique of Soviet culture with re-evaluation of its clichés, as well as the vital, joyful, and playful atmosphere, which largely defined the appeal of the “Ukrainian new wave”. Combining in his works the national and soviet symbols, myths and utopias he discovered for himself the notion of simulacrum — a copy with no original. Such a paradoxical self-sustainability of propaganda as substitution for the non-existing items unexpectedly unites propaganda with pop-art. Tistol was primarily interested in its formal aesthetic aspects - stencil plates, color back-ups, smoothly painted surfaces.

  • List of the exhibitions

    2022 – UNFOLDING LANDSCAPES – Landscape and Poetics in Contemporary Ukrainian Art”, Silkeborg Bad, Denmark
    2021– Ukraine. A different angle on neighbourhood, Krakow, Poland
    2021– 30x30. Contemporary Ukrainian art, National Center «Ukrainian House», Kyiv
    2020 – Ukraine Today, Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv
    2020 – The Artifical Pain, Сontemporary Art Centre ZnakiCzasu, Toruń, Poland
    2020 – Imprint. Ukrainian printmaking of the XX – XXI centuries, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv
    2018 – Tribute to Viborg, 1018 – 2018, An exhibition of Contemporary Collage Art. Viborg, Denmark
    2018 – Permanent Revolution. Ukrainian Art Today, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
    2017 – Private Collection. Contemporary Ukrainian Artists. Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine 2015 – Wien,Österreichisches Museum für Volkskunde, Ukraine. Transformation der Moderne
    2015 – Koelner Liste-Contemporary Art Fair 2015, Dymchuk Gallery
    2014 – I Am A Drop In The Ocean Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria
    2014 – I am a drop in the Ocean, MOCAK, Krakow
    2014 – SCOPE Art Fair Miami Beach HudPromo Art Gallery Miami, USA
    2013 – London Art Fair 2013, London
    2013 – Terrain Orientation National Art Museum of Ukraine Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Kyiv
    2013 – Contemporary Ukrainian Artists. Saatchi Gallery. London (catalogue)
    2011 – The Mythology of Happines , Salon Vert, London (solo show, catalogue)
    2011 – 11ème Festival Européen de la photo de nu, Arles, France (catalogue)
    2011 – Art Chicago 2011, Black Square Gallery, Chicago, USA
    2011 – UKRAINIAN ARTISTS, gallery Albert Benamou, Paris
    2011 – SCOPE International Contemporary Art Show, New York, USA
    2011 – Interpretation of Memories Black Square Gallery, Miami, USA (solo show)
    2011 – Art Palm Beach, Art fair, Black Square Gallery, Florida, USA
    2011 – MIA art fair, Black Square Gallery, Miami, USA
    2007– Reflection, PinchukArtCenter, Kyiv (catalogue)
    2001 – The First Ukrainian Project, 49th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (catalogue)
    2000 – Intervals, National Art Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine—Henie-Onstad Museum, Oslo (catalogue)
    1999 – Preventive Measures, Passage de Retz gallery, Paris
    1998 – Accommodation, the Jesuit Gallery, Poznan, Poland
    1998 – Per Gynt, National Art Gallery, Tronheim, Norway
    1994 – The 22-nd Bienal Internacional de Sao Paolo, Brazil (catalogue)
    1993 – Europe ́s Steppe, Center for Contemporary Art Uyazdovsky Castle, Warsaw
    1992 – Nine Days, St. Alban Tal, Basel, Switzerland
    1991 – Wanderlieder, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (catalogue)
    1991 – End of the Century Art, World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland (catalogue)
    1990 – The End of the Century, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik (catalogue)
    1990 – In der USSR en Erbuiten, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (catalogue)
    1989 – The Furmanny Lane, Petr Novitsky Gallery, Warsaw
    1989 – Three Generations of the Post-Stalin Avantgarde, New Beginning Festival, Glasgow, Scotland