Artist

Ivan Sotnikov

Ivan Sotnikov is an artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

Ivan Sotnikov never left a forwarding address, but his prints have turned up in Berlin, Reykjavik, and a Reykjavik café bathroom stall. He treated paper like a postcard—folding it into tiny, sharp landscapes of empty chairs and half-peeled stickers. One of those prints, simply titled “Untitled” from 2014, shows a single chair stranded under a single lightbulb; the shadow it casts is the real star. If you’ve ever seen a room feel bigger than it is, look up this print next—it’s a quiet doorway into the same trick.

Works by Ivan Sotnikov

Collections represented

Victoria and Albert Museum

Museum

Victoria and Albert Museum

The Victoria and Albert Museum in the United Kingdom is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects.

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