On May 4, the House of the Sunin Budva hosted Anton Ketov’s charity exhibition “Changing Space”.
Anton Ketov was born on November 10, 1978 in Moscow. Since childhood, he lived in a creative environment. His great-grandfather, I. M. Ketov, was an architect, and his grandfather, A. I. Ketov, was a famous artist. Anton spent his entire childhood in his workshops, and his grandfather taught him the basics of painting.
В 1999 году окончил театральный институт им. Б. Щукина, в 2003 г. – Всероссийский государственный институт кинематографии имени С.А. Герасимова (ВГИК). В 1995–1999 годах работал в театральных мастерских. Эта работа оказала сильное влияние на дальнейшую творческую деятельность.
Мировоззрение формировалось под впечатлением от научно-социальной фантастики, в особенности от произведений Аркадия и Бориса Стругацких, Ивана Ефремова. Во многом на творчество повлияла архитектура 1920х-1980х гг.
Personal exhibitions were held in Belarus, Russia, and France. A regular participant of Russian and international exhibitions and festivals of contemporary art. He is also engaged in the design of exhibitions and the creation of museum expositions.
His works are in private collections in Russia and abroad, as well as in the collections of the National Center for Contemporary Arts of the Republic of Belarus, the Vitebsk Center for Contemporary Art, the I-Gallery in Paris (France), the Kastoria Museum (Greece) and Russian regional museums.
Anton Ketov: “The works presented at the exhibition belong to different cycles, which I have been working on for quite a long time. But what is happening in the world and my feelings about it have changed the usual plots quite a lot. Some of the works depict a very common theme for me-a view from the window of the city or houses in the distance. Depending on what was happening to me, what was happening outside the window also changed. This story is from my illustrative presentation of the Strugatsky brothers ‘ Midday World. For me, it has always been a harmonious and kind world in which I wanted to live. Now a black slush from the past has flooded into this wonderful world, robbing us all of the present. Some of the works depict street characters Milos and Lukas, who also found themselves in an unusual space and environment. Works from the series “Lines of the Universe” are no longer on perfectly smooth, polished plywood, but on pieces of old plywood and wood found on the seashore. And the lines themselves now began to form completely different shapes. All works were created in Montenegro in March-April 2022″
