From the Concentration of the Will at M17Stolen childhoodPlastic, aluminum, acrylic, varnish, 2022Price on request
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My work "Stolen Childhood" is about children who were destined to see and experience a real war. About young Ukrainians, whom the Russian fascists forced to learn such terrible words as "missile attack", "bomb shelter", "evacuation"
Childhood has special colors. The sky is bright blue. The occupier steals children's childhood, steals colors, destroys their inner worlds.
I believe that after all these terrible trials, OUR VICTORY will come, and today's children will be the ones who will clean the Ukrainian land, rebuild Ukrainian cities, and save the Ukrainian nation! And while they grow up, we will defend the truth and build a free UKRAINE, Glory to Ukraine!
Feedback from art critic Iryna Khomenko:Playing with light for the installation "Stolen Childhood" by Konstantin Lapuchen creates variability in the representation and expressiveness of the work, but not in its reading. From any angle and light, the installation tells about the life of a child who was forcefully robbed of the holiday, brightness, even mundaneness. A child is a collective image of all the fates of our children: evacuated, deported, orphaned, crippled...
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Kostiantyn Lapushen's "Stolen childhood"
“My work "The Stolen Childhood" is about children who had to see and experience a real WAR. It's about young Ukrainians who were forced by the Russian fascists to learn terrible words like "missile attack", "bomb shelter", "evacuation".
Childhood has peculiar colours. The skies are bright blue. The invader steals childhood from kids, steals colours, and ruins the inner worlds of children.
I believe that after all the terrible trials, OUR VICTORY will come, and the children of today will become the ones who will purify the Ukrainian land, rebuild Ukrainian cities, and preserve the Ukrainian nation! And while they grow up, we will defend the truth and build a free UKRAINE, Glory to Ukraine!”
About the artist
Kostiantyn Lapushen was born in 1999 in Kyiv. He studied at the Kyiv Children's Academy of Arts, where he defended 3 diplomas (with sculpture, painting and graphics). After completing KDAM, he entered the NAOMA, at the Faculty of Graphics, defended his Bachelor's and Master's degrees.
Artist's statement:"In my work, I explore the possibilities of visualization, combine techniques, styles and directions, create a synthesis for the most appropriate visual solution. As for the directions in which I mainly work, these are installations, paintings with various materials, a mix of computer drawings and real materials, video projections, stylized sculpture.
I create music for my installations and paintings. I prefer the immersion of a person in the space of the art object or painting he created, involving lighting, music and the surrounding space. I consider art to be a very powerful tool that can and should be used for explanation, for discussion, for raising questions, for expression."
List of the exhibitions
2023 Project - group exhibition "Towing the Path" in the co-working space "PEREMOGA"
2023 Project-group exhibition "Mutilated Sky" in the National Museum "KYIV PICTURE GALLERY"
2023 The exhibition is dedicated to the anniversary of the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Rashists in Ukraine in the "National Children's Library" with
the installation "Stolen Childhood"
2023 Exhibition at the "Globus" gallery
2023 Master's diploma exhibition.
2022 Exhibition-concert "WAVE" in the space "INTELLIGENCE"
2017 Exhibition "Portrait of Kyiv"
2021 Exhibition "EUROPEAN DIGITAL ART FAIR"
2016 ( February ) Exhibition (Unity of brothers) in the gallery "M-17"
2016 Exhibition at the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences
2015 Exhibition "How not to love you, my Kiev"
2015 Exhibition "How not to love you, my Kyiv, modern Kyiv".
2015 Exhibition at the T.G. Shevchenko National Museum
2015 Exhibition "Andriivskyi Uzviz", KOLESO Theater
2014 Exhibition in Prague "AVE BOHEMIA"
2014 Exhibition at Kavaleridze Museum-workshop
2013 All-Ukrainian exhibition dedicated to Ch. Aitmatov's 85th birthday In the artist's central building.
2013 Exhibition "The Inspirational Pulse of Time" Art Center "Chocolate House"
2013 T.G. Shevchenko's exhibition "House on the Priory"
2013 Outdoor exhibition in Sendnev.
2012 Exhibition until 1530 river of Kyiv
2012 Exhibition at the "Globus" gallery
2011 Exhibition at the Academy of Sciences
2010 Catalog Sunny Colors ,, Lavra Gallery ,,
2010 Exhibition at the President's Administration