Teapot 07 Print

Philipp Rukavishnikov is a contemporary Russian award-winning artist. Rukavishnikov is the sixth author in a dynasty of artists, so he was completely prepared for a career as a sculptor. Rukavishnikov became the author of notable sculptures in the urban ensembles of Moscow: Series of monuments for Russian sportsmen for Moscow, Series of memorial plaques for Moscow, Series of park sculptures for Moscow gardens. His creative assets also include monuments in other countries: Dostoevsky monument (Lima, Peru), Dostoevsky monument (Dresden, Germany), Nabokov monument (Montreux, Switzerland). Philipp Rukavishnikov was born in 1974, in Russia, where he graduated from Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after V.I. Surikov. He is a member of the Russian Academy of Art. Rukavishnikov exhibited in Russia, Sweden, France, Indonesia, Slovakia, Netherlands, and his works were in permanent collections in galleries in New York, Moscow, Amsterdam and Brussels. COLLECTIONS Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia MOMA, Moscow, Russia M'ARS Gallery, Moscow, Russia Total Art gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands Zig Zag Venture Group, New York, United States Gallery Dieleman, Brussels, Belgium MAIN CYCLES OF WORKS Cycle "Teapots" - The cycle of sculptures - consists of 20 sculptures - teapots - began with working on sketches for "Magritte" thematic tea set, which was ventured enough cheerful, but still quite functional. From an iron combined with a tobacco " it is not " pipe (among the given things not presented) it should count off time given to all undertaking. Cycle "2000 Year of War" - The cycle of sculptures - consists of 30 sculptures of warrior's heads of all times (from Roman gladiator with a scar and a sleek American marine, a Red Army volunteer and a Wehrmacht soldier to a tattooed Maori warrior and a ruthless barbarian Gaul, a crusader and a Saracen) Graphic cycle "Posters" - includes about 2000 hand-painted artwork, made on paper 100x70 cm, mixed media (acrylic, gouache, pencils, ballpoint pen and markers). The idea of cycle briefly is a kind of ironic resurrection of good old items of eighties of previous century - picture that bares name of a famous band or artist which could be hung on a wall.