Geisha Painting

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 the viewer to dive into the painting and to move his eyes from color-scape to color-scape .This is the focal point of the constructive paintings by Shcheglov. He is moving his brush as he would view a painting himself and move his eyes from one color point to the next one and fix what he has seen with an ongoing line. Shcheglov is reducing the perception of forms to geometric surfaces which penetrate each other and substitutes the different colors, which we normally recognize as merged color-shadows, to the benefit of clear circumscribed surfaces.Shcheglovs paintings could said to be an attempt of a "Painted Theory of Perception" Dr. Susanne Hoeper-Kuhn Art-Historian