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eng Automatic Translation

Vasily Pochitsky (dr. Klein)

1967 – 2024

Avant-garde artist, musician, director.

Pochitsky is an extremely individual person, for him absolutely any plot can become a topic for reflection and further creative implementation. The originality of this man is confirmed by many recent exhibitions in Minsk.

Like any self-respecting artist, Vasily Pochitsky found his own approach to depicting reality. Life for him is a card game in which nothing is known until the very end. And it is very important that the artist depicts his reality, passing through the prism of worldly wisdom, savvy with subtle humor.

The artist is a participant in numerous exhibitions, including an exhibition at the UN Headquarters, his work was sold at Sotheby's, and his paintings are in private collections and museums in the United States, Canada, Russia, Great Britain, Germany, France, Israel, Ireland, Turkey and Poland.

Lives and works in Minsk.

Selected Artwork Series

Selected artworks

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1967

Born in the city of Rechitsa .

He studied art at the Rechitsa Art School . This was the end of his art education. In the future, there was an unsuccessful attempt to enter the Minsk Art School, which forever put an end to attempts to acquire academic knowledge. "We need to accumulate experience," thought the novice artist and stepped into adulthood.

He worked at the Krasny Oktyabr textile factory in Rechitsa, was engaged in self-education, studied world art culture.

1986

He began his career as a freelance artist, first at home, then in Moscow, where he became interested in contemporary conceptual art. Exhibited with Moscow artists in the gallery "Mars" , a series of his graphic works were sold at the famous auction "Sotheby's".

1992

Received an offer of cooperation with the gallery "Vita-Nova" .

He is the organizer and participant of a number of artistic and cultural events. Among them is the festival of alternative cinema "Gagarin's Unknown Flight" , where Pochitsky also acts as a film director. With his participation, the show "Galactic Fashion" was held; annual events with the support of the Minsk Planetarium, including the art festival "Children of Tsiolkovsky" (with the participation of pupils from a boarding school for the deaf), the performance "Conquest of Space" by the Boombuki Theater directed by S. Mikhalok and more.

1999

The first solo exhibition "Dr. Klein's Herbarium" took place

2000

Dr. Klein's Magic Eye Project .

2001

Took part in the International Exhibition of Contemporary Art "Black Wind - White Land" at the UN Headquarters of Contemporary Art in New York, which was then exhibited in Switzerland, Japan and Ireland.

2002

Belpochta issued a postal envelope with a reproduction of the painting "Snail Drivers".

2007

All his exhibitions demonstrated the originality of the master's creative personality. The gallery "Podzemka" opened the exhibition "Gagarin is alive" , where, in addition to moving and stationary objects containing one or another reference to Gagarin, visitors were expected by wonderful metamorphoses of the author himself, performing songs either in the mask of Fantômas and the Elephant, or in glasses and a Pilot's helmet.

2009

The Rechitsa Renaissance Foundation presented 37 works at the Rumyantsev and Paskevich Palace. Among them - a series of grotesque compositions from the realm of the absurd.

The artist about his practice:

"I'm a genius and that's a big responsibility."

“At first there were people in the caricatures, but if you draw people today, then there will be many lawsuits. If you draw someone’s nose or ear the wrong way, he will immediately drag you to court. They will start talking about insults, everyone loves to sue newspapers, journalists It's easier with hares."

"Although hares are also different in my drawings: scientists, policemen, bandits, there are beardless and beardless ones. And not all hares are cowards. it depends on the character. According to some even external signs, you can find the main, most courageous hare in my caricatures. But my caricatures are kind, I'm not an evil artist. I like soft folk humor. You can write evil on the neighbor's fence, but I don't like this And be sure all the drawings and paintings should carry energy in themselves, and not just hang somewhere in the kitchen to no avail. In one bank they hung my picture and for a long time they could not understand what was happening in the room: vases fall, glasses break, out of hand everything falls down. And then they realized that the reason is in the energy that comes from my picture. "

"It's all from the people! Just turn on the TV and listen! In our country, every second one speaks Trasyanka. This is the truth of life, not fiction. It is no coincidence that some phrases from my drawings are even written by people in toilets. Previously, there were a lot of cartoons in Soviet periodicals Many people took a newspaper in their hands and first of all looked at the funny drawings. But now people either do not want to laugh, or they are afraid. It’s somehow more fun with animals. Or maybe someday again in our society they will laugh at themselves and in Will we see people again in cartoons?"

"Hares are very important and symbolic animals. In the East it is a symbol of happiness and good luck, in China it is longevity, in Christianity it is fertility, in Egypt it is the human principle. Among the American Indians, the hare is the creator and keeper, in the Celtic epic it is an attribute of deities, in ancient culture, it symbolizes licentiousness and lust.But in our folklore, hares are always cowardly.But they, like many Belarusians, are not only cowardly, but also with cunning, a little rustic and mow in two directions, so that they and this. And our hares are still stupid ... A smart hare is only in "Well, wait a minute!".