Montenegro, born 14.12.1972
Professional artist, print graphic designer, was born in 1972, in the North Caucasus (South Russia). Graduated Moscow Academy of the Printing Arts in 1995. Traveller, "citizen of the world", for almost two years living in Montenegro.
While I've been working as a book print graphic designer for many years my “inner easel artist” have been ripening on. Sooner or later I came to creation of this unique semi-painting semi-graphic pastel & acrylic artworks series.
Always being inspired by “something beyond of outer conventional reality”. And to discover and experience that, I’m travelling a lot, particularly to Asia.
Inspiration is vital, it springs from conscious and subconscious images born of diverse emotional and visual encounters – be they figurative or abstract. Nature's states, luminous light, music, even dreams fuel this inner well. Gradually, this coalesces into form. Essential details and conceptual meaning surface, forging composition – an organized symphony of light, dark, and color. Our depths plumbed hinge on our quest.
The creative process is akin to prayer or yoga. The artist becomes a conduit for energy. The less our intellect intervenes, the purer.
Acrylic, wide-brushed, pastels' glimmer simulate clouds, water, nature's textures – mirroring volatility. Art, music – paramount mediums for expressing this magical illusion on our relative plane. My works, a blend of unique graphics and painterly elements, embody this spirit.
Perception varies among viewers, each with their own world view. Artworks emerge as personal experiences, without expectation of feedback. Like music, they materialize and vanish. Some resonate, others don't. When a viewer aligns with my expression, a shared frequency emerges, a common language. If my art imparts a message or impact, it's wonderful, though I don't actively pursue that outcome.
“Only in the darkness is the light”. But ultimately – “dark” and “light” are just labels created by our mind, our “hopes” and “fears”. So, if we go beyond of that we are becoming free. But with that we are becoming able to experience our “real nature” where we are inseparable one of each other.
Selected exhibitions and events:
Siddhartha Festival Art Show.
Group exhibition.
Bodhgaya, India, 2023
Mystical Geography. Paths of the Blessing.
Solo exhibition.
Stavropol, 2014
Spiritual Art Group Exhibition.
Elista, 2013
Russian Academy of Arts Group Exhibition.
Rostov-on-Don / Grozny, 2012-2013
Printmaking and sculpture of the North Caucasus.
Group exhibition.
Stavropol, 2012
Russian Academy of Arts Group Exhibition.
Pyatigorsk, 2010
Young Stavropol Artists Group Exhibition.
Elista, 1996
Appealing to the Genre.
Vladimir Gribachev & Yaroslav Gribachev.
Two artists exhibition.
Stavropol, 1994
Moscow University of Printing Arts (Moscow Academy of the Printing Arts).
Student group exhibitions.
Moscow, 1992-1995
Young Artists Group Exhibition.
Stavropol, 1992
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