Feodosiy Tetianych

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Feodosiy Tetianych
Artist Feodosiy Tetianych 2005
Born	Feodosiy Tetyanich (1942-02-17)17 February 1942 village Kniazhychi, Kiev's region, Soviet Ukraine
Died	18 February 2007(2007-02-18) (aged 65) Kiev, Ukraine
Known for	performance - Tetianych biography
Notable work	painting, installations, poems
Movement	contemporary art

Feоdosiy Tetyanich (17 February 1942, village Kniazhychi, Kyiv's region, Soviet Ukraine - 18 February 2007, Kyiv, Ukraine) was a Ukrainian artist, painter, performance artist and philosopher, representative Ukrainian underground. Some of his art works are in the National Art Museum of Ukraine and private collectioins.

Biography[]

"Man and infinity", object by Ukrainian artist F.Tetianych,1980

Feodosiy Tetyanich was born 17 February 1942 in Kniazhychi, Kyiv's region, Soviet Ukraine.^[1]

His parents were Ukrainian peasants of Orthodox Christian Ukrainian, Rusyn and Cossack origin, who worked at a collective farm.^[2]

He studied at village school than moved to Kyiv to study in Academy of Arts. After finishing the Academy he begin to work in the field of art at the same time providing further education for himself with the help of God (self-education). At that time he interested himself in the whole Universe around - religion, philosophy, art, history, culture, travelling, people, mathematics, physics, politics, communism and nationalism etc. etc. He made a lot of works of art in different styles and techniques among them social realism, historical paintings, modern art (avant-garde), etc.^[3]

From the middle of 1980s he moved to streets of Kyiv and begin share his philosophy, experience, opinion and worldview with all people around, all who wanted to engage in dialogue with him. Many Kyiv citizens and guests were impressed by him, his worldview, his style of life and artistic activity, his preaching about the beauty and bounty of Infinity and its Creator, Freepulia, Artist of Universe, from the banks of river Dnieper.^[4]

The main theme of Feodosiy's performances was freedom (he nicknamed himself "Freepulia"), and was one of the first performance artist in post-Soviet Ukraine.^[5]

Feodosiy was married to Ganna, had two children, Bohdan and Lada.^[6]

Feodosii Tetyanych died of cancer at a hospital in Kyiv on February 18, 2007, leaving his wife and two children.Buried in the Knyazhychi village.^[7]

Miracle work of artist Tetyanich is interesting for modern art, in investigations of art-critics in 2021.^[8]

References[]

Sources[]

• Film by O.Dirdovsky about Tetianych
• "Feodosiy Tetyanich". Retrieved 2013-11-05.
• "Всесвіт Фріпулья". Retrieved 2013-11-05.
• Alexandra Vagner. "Everyone saw what he wanted." Miracle work of Fedor Tetyanich. Radio Svoboda 13.03.2021