Anton Kosikov (“Hudo”)
Bricks
I work with emotions. Strong emotions are very important to me, even emotions that were experienced in childhood and then carried over into adult life. I am working on the theme of (self)defence and unity. About how we, the whole world, became defenders, about the role of the Baltic States and Lithuania in particular, its perception and reflection, empathy. The project is, of course, about ordinary people and about me, about people who were forced to leave their homes and about those who opened themselves to help. I have spent the last year in Lithuania, I am a migrant, a person who reacts even more sharply on the inside to all the pain that my home country has to feel... and I sum it all up with a visual line. I am like one brick, but brick by brick and you can build a house, you can build a border.
Anton Kosikov (b. 1989, Rivne, Ukraine) is an interdisciplinary artist, graphic designer and contemporary neo-Fresco painter, also known by the pseudonym Hudo. He started drawing at school age after suffering a stroke in order to regain fine motor skills in his hands. He has an incomplete post-secondary education which is not related to artistic creation. He worked in a blacksmith's forge and for six years in a metal factory. Anton's work draws inspiration from medieval engravings and uses images of strange creatures to critique contemporary consumer society.
Anton has organised and participated in art projects in Ukraine - Dzyga (Lviv), IZONE (Kiev), Art Zone (Klaipėda), Turboformat (Avignon, France), etc., and in informal festivals in Ukraine and abroad (Black Circle, Signalization (Ukraine); Burning Man (USA), etc.
Email: sobakazamerzla@gmail.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anton_hudo
The exhibition is organised by Prof. Marija Marcelionytė-Paliukė, Department of Graphic Arts
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