Andrey Chistiakov

Hi. My name is Andrey and i was born at 1990 in Russia in Saint-Petersburg.

It was hard times for my people nation. And this times influenced to my family too.

Anyway in my childhood i had an opportunity to practice in a music school on the piano. There my acquaintance with an Art was started. It was 9 years of education. When it started my teacher told my parents that I had bad hearing and its hard to teach me. But after 4 years of hardwork i got scholarship for free education. I finished music school with a red diploma. There i also discovered the jazz, specifically Luis Armstrong and Ray Charles. But there was one problem, during all education a dreaming to learn to draw.

There was two reasons for it. My sister was a painter. She draw on a canvas oil paints. For me her craft was realy magic. Another reason was my best school mate, who was learning to paint too. And we had a creating tandem with him. We made a lot of different art like comics, concept art and other stuff.

It was 2005 and in our family appears our first PC and my need for paint converted in a computer animation. The study in a music school was over, when i met one of the famous russian computer-animator Oleg Kuvaev the creator of animated series "Masy...

Saint-Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design `14

Germany, Essen, CONTEMPORARY ART RUHR Fair 2017