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Igor Tishin is one of the most surprising artists in Belarus at the moment. In a country whose approach to art is still strongly focused on Socialist Realism and for the past few decades on French Modernism, his paintings and installations certainly do catch the eye. Tishin’s art is not always in one and the same style, and is difficult to classify under any specific school. Perhaps it can best be described as an investigation into the depiction of a contemporary Belorussian identity. This identity is not unambiguous. It is a combination of fragments from the country’s cultural history: nineteenth-century folklore, Chagall and the Russian avant-garde, Socialist Realism and the Belorussian self-image in the twentieth century. Igor Tishin is first and foremost a painter, but there is also a provocative element to his work. With the themes he broaches in his art, he is trying to launch a conversation with his audience about the cultural and political position of man in Belarus. ...read more...
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