Artwork information
- Author
- Igor Manko
- Name
- Town motifs with clouds 5
- Year
- 1986
- Dimensions
- 18x28 cm
- Catalog number
- MANI-01(1986)
- Inscription
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On the verso side: inscription “IGOR G MANKO ‘TOWN MOTIFS WITH CLOUDS’ ” and circled figure “5”
About the artist
Town motifs with clouds 5
Igor Manko (1962, Poltava) – Kharkiv photographer, curator. Got interested in photography back in the early childhood, thanks to his father, who was a photo amateur. Practices art photography since 1982, after having moved to Kharkiv. In 1984 became a amember of Contacts photographic group (renamed to Gosprom in 1987). As most of the authors of the collective, shared interest in documenting mundane, eventless fragments of reality, aiming to equal all elements of composition. However, the photographer often transformed the shots using toning, which added a certain level of metaphysicality and accentuated contemplativeness. Since the late 1990s involved in curatorial activity, organizing photographic exhibitions, including virtual ones. Chief curator of VASA Project platform (vasa–project.com), participant of Ukrainian Photographic Alternative union. As a linguist, heads the language centre International House, which also serves as a venue for the various cultural events in the city.
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Photo credit — Igor Manko, 1992.
1993 — галерея “Image”, Aarhus, Denmark
2005 — “1993-2005”, Municipal gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine (curator — Tetiana Pavlova)
2008 — “Небесные знаки”, “Боб-фест” festival, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2013 — “Visual Discoveries”, online project at VASA Project website (vasa-project.com/gallery/manko/)
2013 — “Colors of Ukraine”, online project at VASA Project website (vasa-project.com/witness-ukraine)
2017 — “The Sea, The Skies, and The Black Earth”, online project at VASA Project (http://vasa-project.com/index.php)
Group exhibitions
2015 — “Майбутнє Майдану”, “Воля” art space, Kyiv, Ukraine (curators — Maksym Demskyi and Daria Koltsova)
2015 — “Three Intuitions”, Gallagher Student Center, University of Cincinnati Blue Ash, Ohio, USA (curators — Guennadi Maslov and Gregory Rust)
2014 — “Теорія вірогідності”, VII All-international platform “Новітні спрямування”, Modern Art Research Institute of Ukrainian Academy of Arts, Kyiv, Ukraine
2015 — “Практика видозмін”, VIII All-international platform “Новітні спрямування”, Modern Art Research Institute of Ukrainian Academy of Arts, Kyiv, Ukraine
2017 — “Коли закінчиться війна”, GogolFest 2017, ГогольFest ArkSquat, Kyiv, Ukraine
2018 — “Механізм еволюції”, X All-international platform “Новітні спрямування”, Modern Art Research Institute of Ukrainian Academy of Arts, Kyiv, Ukraine
2019 — “UA: Identity reload”, UStream festival, Vienna International Centre, Vienna, Austria
Projects at ArtHouse gallery. Curatorial projects
1998 — “Садистские стихи” (exhibition of Sergey Bratkov), ArtHouse gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine
1998 — “PopUA”, ArtHouse gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2000 — “Культурный герой”, ArtHouse gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2008 — “Палимпсесты” (exhibition of Bill Devis), ArtHouse gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2008 — виставка в рамках “Боб-Фест”, ArtHouse gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2012 — “Украинское время” (exhibition of Guennadi Maslov), ArtHouse gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2014 — “СегоднЯ ТАК”, ArtHouse gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2014-2015 — “Witness: Ukraine”, online project at VASA Project (http://vasaphotography.com/witness-ukraine/)
2014-2015 — “Харьковская школа фотографии: от советской цензуры к новой эстетике” (part І-IIІ), Municipal gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2016 — “Andrea Motta: 1st Moments in Greece”, online project at VASA Project (http://vasa-project.com/gallery/motta/)
2016 — “Crimea: A No Man’s Land”, online project at VASA Project (http://vasa-project.com/gallery/crimea/index.php)
2016 — “Alexander Chekmenev: The Donbas”, online project at VASA Project (http://vasa-project.com/gallery/chekmenev/)
2017 — “Сучасні грецькі фотографи”, ArtHouse gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2017 — “Kharkiv School of Photography”, screening at Tbilisi Photo Festival, Tbilisi, Georgia
2017 — “Dnipropetrovsk School of Photography, 1970s – 1980s”, online project at VASA Project (http://www.vasa-project.com/gallery/dsp/index.php)
2018 — “Chiara Dazi: Moldova”, online exhibition (http://www.vasa-project.com/gallery/chiara/index.php)
2018 — “Dmytro Kupriyan: When The War Is Over”, online project at VASA Project (http://www.vasa-project.com/gallery/dmytro/)
2019 — “Eyes on Ukraine: Five Contemporary Ukraine photographers”, CEPA gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA
2019 — “Ukraine: In Search of Lost Identity”, online project at VASA Project (http://www.vasa-project.com/gallery/solop/index.php).
Manko, Igor. “The End According to Pedan”. VASA Journal on Images and Culture, no. 6 (2014). vjic.org/vjic2/?page_id=2603.
Manko, Igor. “The Kharkiv School of Fine Art Photography, in Kharkiv School of Photography: Soviet Censorship to New Aesthetics, Part 1: 1970-1980s”. VASA Journal on Images and Culture, 2014. http://www.vasa-project.com/gallery/ukraine-1/igor-paper2.php.
Manko, Igor. “In search of home”. In Andrea Motta: 1st Moments in Greece. VASA Journal on Images and Culture, 2016. http://www.vasa-project.com/gallery/motta/curatorial-statement-manko.php.
Manko, Igor. “Crimea: A No Man’s Land”. VASA Journal on Images and Culture, 2016. http://www.vasa-project.com/gallery/crimea/about-crimea.php.
Manko, Igor. “Sodom and Gomorrah”. In Alexander Chekmenev: The Donbas. VASA Journal on Images and Culture, 2016. http://www.vasa-project.com/gallery/chekmenev/curatorial-statement.php.
Manko, Igor. 100 Views of Mount Kara-Dag. Self-published, 2014.
Manko, Igor. Sky Signs, 2007-2009. Self-published, 2017.
Механізм еволюції. Kyiv: Інститут проблем сучасного мистецтва Академії мистецтв України, 2018.
Практика видозмін. Kyiv: Інститут проблем сучасного мистецтва Академії мистецтв України, 2016.
Теорія вірогідності. Kyiv: Інститут проблем сучасного мистецтва Академії мистецтв України, 2015.