The Salamatina Gallery is pleased to premiere new paintings by ANDREI SHAROV Andrei Sharov is a multidisciplinary Russian artist of international repute whose projects have taken him all over the world. Like countless artists before him, including such illustrious compatriots as Mikhail Vrubel, Kazimir Malevich, Aleksandr Rodchenko and Liubov Popova as well as others such as Picasso who famously collaborated with Sergei Diaghilev and the Ballet Russes, Sharov is enthralled by theatre and dance and is a celebrated designer of costumes and stage sets. Commissioned by Renault, he designed a Formula One racecar for Fernando Alonso, acclaimed as the most beautiful automobile at the Grand Prix of Turkey in 2006. He is a couturier of great originality and flair, his interest in fashion of longstanding. In addition, Sharov is a photographer, particularly interested in portraits that investigate the inner life of their sitters. He is also a painter of note, his temperament inevitably leads him toward the expressionistic, dramatic and extravagant—a hallmark of all his projects—and toward increasingly brilliant, combustible hues. His vivid, often high-contrast paintings can be rough as well as fluid, driven by his love of the pigment’s materiality, by its sensuousness and versatility. His paintings crackle with energy, at times brimming over with an emotionality uncannily produced by color and brushstroke. Because Sharov works across disciplines, even though they might overlap, he does not want to belong to any particular group of artists, preferring the independence of an outsider. And he is always willing to take creative risks, open to new stimuli supported by a vast archive of historical sources. Sharov was born in Moscow in 1966. He studied at the Moscow Institute of Technology, graduating with a degree in fashion design in 1987. He has always wanted to be an artist; for him there were never any other possibilities. He studied painting and drawing privately at first, encouraged by his parents, although his father was a physicist and his mother a mathematician. He continued to study fine arts at the Moscow Institute, even while pursuing a degree in fashion. His influences are many but artists to whom he feels particularly close include Vrubel, Gustav Klimt, Vincent van Gogh, Willem de Kooning, Andy Warhol, and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Sharov, like several of these artists, values spontaneity. He does not use preliminary sketches and prefers to make his paintings in one session as one prolonged, continuous burst of energy, similar to the processes of Zen masters, capturing the forces of the moment. The new paintings by Andrei Sharov will be shown at Art Paris Art Fair 2014, Grand Palais, booth C23, March 27-30, 2014. Opening: 26 March, 2014, 18h00. For press inquiries, please contact Gallery Salamatina: E/ info@salamatina T/ 001.516.439.4471
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