Andrey Shcheglov

Born in Moscow, Russia 1960.Moved to Germany 1991.Currently working in Duisburg, Germany.The russian painter Andrey Shcheglov is living in Germany since 1991. He has become known beyond the German borders by his ambitioned paintings and has been attending many exhibitions in galeries and art institutions.His paintings issued between 1991 and today are considered to be at the edge of surrealism, without Shcheglov identifying himself with the philosophical mind of surrealism or sourcing from it's manifests. He is rather interested in understanding the Surrealists technical handling of form, color and composition.In all his paintings, be it small color-pencil drawings or large oil-paintings one can recognize the artist's handwriting by the utmost care and handling of dyestuff and colors.Very often he combines very clear constructed color-forms in front of realistic, natural landscapes,- as if two harts would beat in the artist breast, one of a painter and one of a commercial-artist. His paintings often show variations of forms of a figure, which from the viewers point does not want to be identified as a person or a human. Rather such biomorph figures and constructions should be considered as a "spot", a "reason for viewing", to allow...