ART AWARDS & EXHIBITS
Diana Bychkova
Diana Bychkova
ART AWARDS and publications in catalogs
2012 – Awarded at the competition Lingua Madre (native language), Torino, Italy.
2010 – Gold Medal and a personal exhibition at the Graphic’s Competition “Cesare Frigerio”, Corsico, Italy.
2010 – First Prix for an art book “Silence” at the International Competition Book of Art Robert Beltz, Soultz (France), - see under the year 2010. The results of the exhibition were published in the magazine Bulletin de l’Association des Amis de Robert Beltz, Soultz, № 5, 2010, p. 16-19.
2010 – A diploma at the International Exhibition “Image of Book”, at the book fair in Moscow, Russia.
2010 – Awarded with a diploma at the International Festival of Calligraphy, Velikiy Novgorod, Russia. A copy of the art book has entered to be a part of the collection at the Museum of Calligraphy in Moscow, Russia. further link.
2008 – An etching award “Sandro e Marialuisa Angelini”, Bergamo, Italy. A copy of the etching “The residence of Silence” joined the collection at the Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, Academy of Carrara.
2005 – Winner of the gold-silver medal “Cesare Frigerio”, Corsico, under the category “for the shown imagination and lighting execution of drawings in pencil technique”.
PUBLICATIONS ABOUT MY ART
2012—TriMAg Publishing House included me to the list of catalog “222 Best Young Book Illustrators”, Russia.
2010 — an article about the Russian poems of the 1900s, published in the journal “Segretti di Bocca”, Milan, 2010, number 25, p. 10.
2011—D. Montalto’s article about my arts, published in the newspaper Avvenire: Milan, from 19th January, 2011, www.avvenire.it
2009—some of the etchings from my book “Silence”, published in the historical journal of graphic art Grafica d’Arte, edited by Paolo Bellini, Milan, June 2009, supplement n.78, p. 6-7.
2008—an etching “La Fattucchiera”, published in the magazine “Illustration”, London UK, autumn 2008, issue 17, p.42-44.
2006 – an article and four drawings have been published in the historical journal of graphic art Grafica d’Arte, edited by Paolo Bellini, Milan, June 2006, supplement n.66, p. 13-15.
EXHIBITIONS GRANTED ON A SELECTIVE BASIS
2014 – participated in an exhibition “Libri d’artista e stampa originale” (books of Art and Original Printing), Modena, Italy.
2013 - Biennale “Designer bookbinders international competition,”+ publication in the catalogue, Oxford, UK.
2012 –the exhibition 9ème Foire internationale aux livres d'exception, France
2011–the exhibition UNESCO celebrated the 150th birth anniversary of a poet and writer Vazha Pshavela, Georgia.
2011 – the exhibition “Diario d’artista”, Luino e Milano.
2011 – personal exhibition at the Slavic Association “Polski Kot”, Torino, Italy.
2011 – participation at the Festival of Art Book “USE A BOOK”, Barcelona, Spain.
2011 - the International Ex-libris exhibition Nippon Exlibris Association, Japan, publication in the catalogue The Nippon Exlibris Association, Tokyo, 2011, p.8-9.
2010 – the 10th International Biennial of Engraving, Acqui Terme, Italy.
2010 – an art work on the futurists poems “Satires” has been displayed in the exhibition and published in the catalogue “Festa del Dialogo”, GraFiMar, Milan, 2010, p.10-11.
2009 – a copy of the art book has been displayed at the Museum of Printing in Lodi, Italy.
2009 – International Ex-Libris competition “Arti Grafiche Colombo”, exhibition, publication in a catalogue “Arti Grafiche Colombo”, Gessate, Italy.
In the period 2004 - 2010 participated in 11 exhibitions in Italy, Russia, Bulgaria, France, Turkey and Japan.
2002 – participated in the Guild of Artists exhibition, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Throughout 12 years of studying in the art school, actively participated in exhibitions held in Ukraine.
1984 – the first personal exhibition at the age of 5 years.