ATLAS' TORSO Sculpture

I was born in 1974 in Bielorussia. Sculpture is probably the oldest of human arts. It seems a human instinct to make shapes out of whatever material is handy. In my inspiration, there is a "pulsation" that leads me to the figurative or the abstract art. In the figurative art, I am guided by the emotions flowing through me in front of a female body, or the beauty of animals from the real world or mythology. Abstract art allows me infinite freedom of expression, freedom to improvise shapes, freedom to convey a spiritual emotion. In my creations, I look for refined forms, harmony in modeling ,movement and rhythm. I grew up in the Belarusian countryside: the granite stones piled up at the edge of the fields were our playmates. The wood logs we used to heating our cottages are in my memories and are still capturing my imagination. From the very beginning in sculpture, my favorite materials remain wood, stone (limestone, marble, granite) .