NK Gallery has been collaborating with Ivan Razumov for more than 5 years. Ivan’s most important projects featured in NK gallery in Antwerp were: a solo exhibition CITY OF SUBLIME LOVE AND GREAT FUCK (2017), as well as 3 group projects: SELECTED WORKS COVERED BY LIGHT ECHO and another one - with established artists of NK Gallery. NK Gallery actively promotes works of the artist on international art fairs, such as ArtLondon, Art Paris, etc.
Ivan Razumov (born in 1972) lives and works in Moscow. He grew up in a family of several generations of artists, among them are his grandfather, Soviet illustrator Fyodor Konstantinov, and his uncle, the famous cinema and Soviet television artist/illustrator Vladimir Lykov. After studying at the Art School in memory of 1905 and Surikov Institute, Ivan Razumov began to take part in exhibitions and to interact with the artistic communities of Moscow and St. Petersburg in the mid-90s, which in turn influenced the formation of the style and theme of his works, his artistic style, generally.
Initially, Ivan had a profound knowledge of academic graphics; later, he increasingly devoted a free experiment to early graphic works and book illustrations (M. Basho works, V.V. Mayakovsky, A.S. Pushkin, Bitova, Peppershtein, Shenderovich Sorokina and others) and he creates ironic controversial works. Favorite graphics techniques and book illustrations’ skills Ivan harmonically transfers to his coloristic rich, surreal, symbolic, even sarcastic canvas or drawings.
New solo exhibition of Ivan Razumov in the Cube is called "Games". These series of paintings and graphic works, at first glance, are devoted to the political and erotic aspects of social, cultural, partly musical and romantic games. Ivan succeeds in reuniting provocativeness and irony with therapeutic submersion into the space of the long-forgotten youthful dreams and historical and cultural myths. The post-Soviet "trauma" and futuristic fantasies with fragments of modern life become the subject of his aesthetic contemplation. Light and free manner of drawing and wittily built spot involve viewers in the surreal, but alive process. Game rules and critical psychoanalysis underlie the artistic method of Ivan Razumov. Games generate desire, create associations, ask questions and look for answers. Ivan Razumov demands a game, invites to enter it, find answers on the most exciting existential questions.
Ivan Razumov’s works are in private collections in France (Florence and Daniel Guerlain), Germany, USA, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, Russia as well as in public collections of museums such as Center Pompidou, Paris.