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Andrey
Viktorovich Startsev

Russia • born in 1960

(R. 22.02.1960, Chelyabinsk), member. Artists Union of Russia (1990). One of the authors. coat of arms of Chelyabinsk. He graduated from the Sverdlovsk architectural. in-t (1983) on the specialty “design”. Exhibitor mountains. of arts. exhibitions 1986, 1988 and zones., vseros., 1989]. (France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Cyprus, Bulgaria). For creativity C. characterized by an interest in traditional myth and mythologizing the present-day. reality (the cycle “the Passion according to Andrei” Ded. the memory of A. Tarkovsky). Plasticity. manner C., formed under the influence of archit.-designer graphic. school, the inherent compositional elegance, high culture line, stroke and tone of relations, expression carefully executed. details. Graphics S. continues romantic. the tradition of John. Piranesi, FR. Goya, William Blake, with its characteristic elements of unreality and aesthetics of the ugly. C. reinvents the trends of expressionism in graphic. E. interpretation of the Unknown and surrealism of Dali, which generates an analogue Baroque, adapted to the aesthetics of the line. 20 – early 21 centuries In the graphic. series C. embodies the complex compositional logic sets. spaces and interpenetrating forms (“Druids”, “Body” Platonic, “Dreams of Pyramids”, etc.). The complexity of the dynamic. structure and plasticity. interpretation differs most sculptural. work, done. in bronze. NEK-of them are defiantly a collage of diverse forms. The artist strives to reduce the distance between doctor. categories “eternal” and “momentary”, discriminality myth (series “Apocrypha”). In most Mature production. emerges deep, symbolic. the meaning of myth in the framework of the present-day. attitude (leaf “Two man”, “Epitaph”, “the Golden pyramid”, sculpture “Big man”, “nick” etc.). Jewelry work with. distinguished by a subtle sense Mat-La, the attraction to the unconventional form of plasticity. experiment. Some works of S. is in private collections in Russia and abroad.

(author: A. V. Shipitsyn)

Lit.: Chelyabinsk organisation of the Union of artists of Russia, 1936-1991: Right. / AVT.-comp. O. A. Kudzaev. H, 1996; Shestakova L. “... My stories have chosen me” // HF. 1996. 19 July; Starkova O. the Third dimension // the Home and office. 1998. No. 5.

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