Dmitri Kalinin, artist
Russia
“Talents that God endows people with are as diverse as trees with which He adorns the Earth and each of them has its own peculiarities and bears fruit characteristic only of it...”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Contemplation of the object, ironical attitude to it, its admiration but without worshipping; object being not a dead substance but a creature possessing reason.
The complicated surface of paintings’ canvas originates from multi-layer lacquer application. Thanks to the technique when the lower layers are translucent and glimmering, the picture turns out to be very deep thus meeting the artist’s demands. The color pitch of many works is developed trough monochrome scale of half-tints that refine the material sense of the color to the level of musical sounds.
The possibility to express a mood, symbolic image, idea with the help of objects, arouses my great interest to such a creative search that was started by J. de Kiriko, founder of “metaphysical painting”.
Masters of “metaphysical painting” (J. de Kiriko, F. de Pissis, K. Carra, M. Campilli, F. Casoratti, J. Morandi who grouped around “Valeri Plasticci” magazine in 1919-1922) basically shared neo-classical tendencies of 1920s trying to make an impression of melancholy wilderness and scaring stiffness of the world alienated from the man, to reveal some mysterious, magic sense in real objects torn off routine ties.
I will happy ifmy creative activities make a new contribution to the school of “metaphysical painting”.
With deep respect to spectators,
Dmity Kalinin, romantic of the world of objects.
Works of artist
The Composition 38. The end of the century & the beginning of the century or two spirals
1998, canvas, oil, 50x100 cm
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The Creative Biography
Was born on 1964 in the town of Schelkovo (Moscow Region).
In 1991 he graduated from the department of Art and Graphics of the Moscow pedagogical University named after V. I. Lenin.
He has a member of the UNESCO International Federation of Painters since 1994. He lives and works in Moscow. The artist‘s paintings can be found in corporative and private collections in Russia, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, England, Italy, Japan, Israel and USA, and also in State Central Museum of Contemporary Russian history, in Museum of Contemporary Russian Art, Jersey City, USA. ...
In 1991 he graduated from the department of Art and Graphics of the Moscow pedagogical University named after V. I. Lenin.
He has a member of the UNESCO International Federation of Painters since 1994. He lives and works in Moscow. The artist‘s paintings can be found in corporative and private collections in Russia, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, England, Italy, Japan, Israel and USA, and also in State Central Museum of Contemporary Russian history, in Museum of Contemporary Russian Art, Jersey City, USA. ...
Was born on 1964 in the town of Schelkovo (Moscow Region).
In 1991 he graduated from the department of Art and Graphics of the Moscow pedagogical University named after V. I. Lenin.
He has a member of the UNESCO International Federation of Painters since 1994. He lives and works in Moscow.
The artist‘s paintings can be found in corporative and private collections in Russia, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, England, Italy, Japan, Israel and USA, and also in State Central Museum of Contemporary Russian history, in Museum of Contemporary Russian Art, Jersey City, USA.
One-man exhibitions:
1996 — Moscow, Central House of Artists (CHA);
— Moscow, "Metropol" Hotel;
1997 — Moscow, CHA, catalogue, PAN-DAN Gallery;
1998 — Moscow, CHA, ZERO Gallery;
1999 — Moscow, CHA.
Exhibits include:
1994 — "Golgen Brush-94" (Moscow, CHA, catalogue);
— "New Year Exhibition" (Moscow, Exhibition Hall in Malaya Grouzinskaya);
1995 — "Golgen Brush-95" (Moscow, CHA, catalogue);
1996 — "Golgen Brush-96" (Moscow, CHA, catalogue);
- Exhibition at "Astra" motor ship dedicated to the 300-year anniversary of the Russian Fleet (Denmark, Holland, Norway, Germany, France, Great Britian, Portugal, Spain).
1997 — Moscow Art Salon, PAN-DAN Gallery (Central Exhibition Hall).
1998 — Moscow Art Salon, ZERO Gallery (Manezh);
- "Pictures from Exhibitions", ZERO Gallery (Moscow, CHA);
1999 — Sweden, SENSUS Gallery (Stockholm);
- ELENA Gallery (Moscow, CHA);
- ELENA Gallery (Moscow, Radisson Slavjanskaya Hotel);
- "Contemporary Russian Art" (Charity Auction Operation Smile with the support of Sotheby‘s, Citibank);
2000 — Moscow Inernational Art Salon, ELENA Gallery (Moscow, CHA);
- Moscow Art Salon, ELENA Gallery (Manezh);
- "Golgen Brush-2000" (Moscow, CHA, catalogue);
- ELENA Gallery (Moscow, CHA);
- ZERO Gallery (Moscow, CHA);
- Art Manezh, ELENA Gallery (Manezh);
2001 — ELENA Gallery (Moscow, CHA);
- Moscow Art Salon, ELENA Gallery (Moscow, CHA);
- ELENA Gallery (Moscow, CHA);
2002 — ELENA Gallery (Moscow, CHA);
- Moscow Inernational Art Salon, ELENA Gallery (Moscow, CHA);
- ELENA Gallery (Moscow, CHA);
- Art Manezh, ELENA Gallery (Manezh);
2003 — ELENA Gallery (Moscow, CHA);
- Moscow Art Salon, ELENA Gallery (Manezh);
- "Golgen Brush-2003" (Moscow, Noviy Manezh);
- ARTS-2003 (Moscow, The exhibition centre "Sokolniki");
- “Golden Brush in New York” (Museum of Contemporary Russian Art, Jersey City, USA);
2004 - "Unknown Russia" (Museum of Contemporary Russian Art, Jersey City, USA);
- "II Bienalle of Russian modern painting" (Museum of Contemporary Russian Art, Jersey City, USA);
- "III Bienalle of Russian modern graphic arts and sculpture" ( Stella International Gallery, Paris, France);
- «Golden Brush-2004» (Moscow, Noviy Manezh).
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