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Minin Roman
There is a symbol of power in the centre of the pyramid. People call this design the “knopka” (the literal translation is “button”; means a drawing pin). If used improperly, it causes pain and trouble. A drawing pin is created for anchoring, for approval, for learning. The artist chose Majdan Svobody for the installation because its name implies the freedom of creative expression.
A drawing pin is a perfect form for power representation. It is a folk symbol in the broad sense of the word: films were made about this subject, stories and songs were invented. The object rotates on a concrete pedestal. It is a perpetual circular solar motion like “a rolling apple on a plate”*.
* a reference to the Russian folk song “Yablochko”
FRONTIER: New Monuments exhibition & FRONTIER VR Art Festival
Exposition #Laboratory
Roman Minin (June 10, 1981) is a contemporary Ukrainian monumental artist, graphic artist, photographer, and author of objects and installations.
Roman Minin was born in 1981 in Dimitrov (now Myrnograd), Donetsk region. He graduated from the Kharkiv Academy of Design and Arts in 2008 at the Department of Monumental Painting.
In 2009 he was awarded the medal “Talent and Vocation” of the World Alliance “Peacemaker”. Participant of international art projects and exhibitions, organizer of street art festivals. He founded the directions of SMS art and TRANSMONUMENTALISM.
He actively uses virtual and augmented reality in his creative activity. Co-director of the non-profit organization Art Embassy and the startup Transmonument. Creates an anthology of mining life.
Mining is the main characteristic of the Donetsk region, where Roman Minin was born. For the people of the region, it is not only an industry, but also a way of life. Minin took this as the main theme of his painting and stained glass, as a metaphor for a closed social system that forbids access. In the Donetsk Region Escape Plan, Minin created his own rescue scheme for the imprisonment.
Selected exhibitions
2019
Minin’g Charleroi, Le Bois du Cazier Museum, Charleroi
Transmonument, Mhaata gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Roman Minin in Genk, C-mine, Genk, Belgium
Gold of the Nation, Kharkiv Municipal Gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2018
Art mining. Permanent Representation of Ukraine to the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France
Minin in Genk. Thor Central Genk, Genk, Belgium
Own / Stranger. Dzyga, Lviv, Ukraine
Permanent revolution. Ukrainian Art Today, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
2017
Art work. ART WORK, Wroclaw, Poland
MININ in BRUSSELS, Mhaata Gallery, Belgium
Show Promise. Lviv Palace of Arts. Ukraine
2016
Carpet. Contemporary Ukrainian artists, p. Tatariv, Ivano-Frankivsk region, Zenko Foundation
2015
Transformation of the Modern, Volkskundemuseum Wien, Vienna, Austria
Just art, ARTVERA’S ART GALLERY, Switzerland, Geneva
Transformatka, YermilovCentre, Kharkiv
2012
Escape plan from Donetsk region, Palazzo Cantagalli, Foligno, Italy
2011
Not my business, the project “Wall”, Winery, Moscow, Russia
Escape plan from Donetsk region “, Kharkiv Municipal Gallery, Kharkiv
2010
Miner’s folklore, Sumy municipal gallery, Sumy
Dreams of war, Vovatanya Gallery, Kharkiv
