Dmitri Matkovsky

I’m Canadian abstractionist, an artist synesthetes*, Abstract Expressionist.
Emotions are very important to me. When you are in art all your life is at this particular moment. It’s like improvisation in music. You need explain all life in one moment, in one phrase, in one white square…

Emotion is a relationship with other people. My art is a relationship with others too.

I like challenge, I like to make something new every day, on the end I like to win. And more important I like to win Every day. For me to finish my canvas is like red line for the runner or reaching the peak of a mountain for a climber, I will die for this.
I love colours, I love paint, and I love canvas, white canvas. I like even prepare canvas for painting, I just love to be an artist.
When I’m painting I feel like a runner, marathon 42 km. runner dying for red line, dying to reach the finish line. I feel like the climber whose single goal driving him all the time is to reach the peak of the mountain. I want to succeed. I love to win.

I feel myself so liberated when create art. First, because I can produce something that is influence on human’s mood or state of mind, and second, because I can escape this reality. And I like this feeling.

My paintings hav...

SELECTED Solo Show:
2021-2022 The State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey"
2019 "Art Place", Kiev, Ukraine."50 Best works of my last 30 years"
2017 La Galleria, London, UK
2015 St. Petersburg,Russia, ZE Nevsky 8 Art Space, "Synesthetes"
2011
Toronto Library Art Center, Canada
"Art into Life"

2010
Mod Club, Toronto, Canada
"NequilaJazzz"

2008
«Beyond Visual Art» — First Abstract Gallery, Toronto, Canada

2000
Khvost Gallery, Paris, France

1999
OGI Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine

1998
Acquisitions and Gifts, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

1997
Khvost Gallery (Khvostenko & Matkovsky), Paris, France

1995
"Post Soviet Art - Ptiza" C. Karsten Gallery, Hamburg, Germany