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Dmitriy Shulkovich, Russia

Dmitry Shulkovich was born on October 9, 1972. Lives and works in Moscow. Uses collage technique. The paintings are made of paper. The base is acid-free cardboard. PVA glue. The author has been creating paintings using this technique since 2003. The technique of creating paintings is unique and combines the work of a painter and a jeweler. Instead of a stroke of paint, a piece of paper with a typographical print of a certain color and texture is cut out and glued to the base using tweezers. Large pieces act as underpainting. Jewelry work is motor skills and painstaking, combined with technical capabilities available only for painting. An unlimited number of corrections allows you to achieve the desired result. And at times it creates a papier-mâché effect, giving the picture a certain pastiness. The smooth transitions of color and texture achieve a subtlety that is visually comparable to the glaze technique. And the use of typographic printing as the source material - image clarity that is not achievable either with a brush of the first number or with a dry needle. Dmitry Shulkovich creates his works without preliminary drawing. During the work, the composition changes many times. The author's great-grandfather was a hereditary watchmaker. Fine motor skills, meticulousness in work and attention to the smallest details, inherited by the artist, give rise to works that are unique in their visual effect. If you look deeper, in addition to motor skills, the artist inherited the desire to understand the structure of a clock mechanism, and perhaps the world order in general. After all, all of Dmitry Shulkovich’s paintings have the goal of depicting how the universe works. And understand its structure through visualization.