Dasha Shishkin at L21 Gallery

Artist: Dasha Shishkin

Exhibition title: Frou Frou

Venue: L21 Gallery, Mallorca, Spain

Date: March 20 – May 28, 2021

Photography: Lúa Oliver / all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and L21 Gallery, Mallorca

Dasha does not feel comfortable with this kind of written presentation about her work, so we have decided to include the lyrics of a song from Óscar Florit’s music band “Peluche llorón”:

wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat,

one hundred wet cats

cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet cat, wet

Dasha Shishkin (Moscow, Russia, 1977) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Driven by line, her compositions are inhabited by a psychedelic multiplicity of scenes and characters, bordering on the comical and the grotesque – a glimpse into a strange, parallel world where pre-assumed rules don’t apply. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions at Neues Museum Nurnberg, Alemania (2021); Fine Art Gallery, Houston, Texas (2020); Anne Barrault Gallery, Paris, Francia (2020); Gio Marconi Gallery, Milan, IT (2018); Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder (2017) and The Metropolitan Opera, New York (2014). Her work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Nueva York; Whitney Museum of American Art, Nueva York; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA; Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, USA; RISD Museum, Providence, USA; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus; Pina- kothek der Moderne, Munich; and Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg.

Dasha Shishkin, Frou Frou, 2021, exhibition view, L21 Gallery, Mallorca

Dasha Shishkin, Frou Frou, 2021, exhibition view, L21 Gallery, Mallorca

Dasha Shishkin, Frou Frou, 2021, exhibition view, L21 Gallery, Mallorca

Dasha Shishkin, Frou Frou, 2021, exhibition view, L21 Gallery, Mallorca

Dasha Shishkin, Frou Frou, 2021, exhibition view, L21 Gallery, Mallorca

Dasha Shishkin, Frou Frou, 2021, exhibition view, L21 Gallery, Mallorca

Dasha Shishkin, Frou Frou, 2021, exhibition view, L21 Gallery, Mallorca

Dasha Shishkin, Frou Frou, 2021, exhibition view, L21 Gallery, Mallorca

Dasha Shishkin, Saifei, 2021, Acrylic, conte crayon on cloth, 102 x 102 cm

Dasha Shishkin, Ravil, 2021, Acrylic, conte crayon on cloth, 70 x 43 cm

Dasha Shishkin, Amir, 2021, Acrylic, conte crayon on cloth, 91,5 x 119 cm

Dasha Shishkin, Nail’, 2021, Oil and acrylic on cloth, 46 x 35,5 cm

Dasha Shishkin, Hairitdin, 2021, Acrylic, conte crayon on cloth, 51 x 51 cm

Dasha Shishkin, Ural, 2021, Acrylic, conte crayon on cloth, 124,5 x 124,5 cm

Dasha Shishkin, Marat, 2021, Acrylic, conte crayon on cloth, 122 x 122 cm