Vladimir Feoktistov - painting
 

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Vladimir Feoktistov , Untitled, 2008 , oil on canvas /canvas, 77 x 100 cm


The painter and graphic artist.
In 1966, he entered the Moscow Art Institute. Surikov , then studied at the Art School of Makhachkala and Moscow typographical graphically Institute. I. Bosch passion for creativity , and P.Breygelya P.Filonov had a significant influence on the formation of him as an artist .
The grotesque style of writing coupled with slozhnosochinennogo subplot did not hit the main-stream . The first solo exhibition was organized in 1983 with the support of the Nobel Prize P.Kapitsy the Institute for Physical Problems of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in Moscow. Despite some success in an environment of scientific, diplomatic and business elite , creativity Feoktistova develops outside of the field of conventional capital's artistic life. Since 1989 lives in Northern California. In 1991 he returned home to Gudermes gets into a situation of civil war, persecution and repression of the Russian population in Chechnya. After two armed attacks had with his family to leave their home . After living for several years in Moscow and St. Petersburg, artist retreats near the Black Sea. Life experience has strengthened its in boskhiansko - breygelevskogo view of the world , which he sees full of evil , vice, folly and spiritual ugliness. However, in the analysis of human nature still felt nostalgia for the lost , but the existing sense.
Feoktistov - participated in many exhibitions held from Vladivostok to
New - York and Seattle. His solo exhibitions were held in Moscow and Grozny , San - Francisco, St. Petersburg.

Collections
Zimmerli Museum of Rutgers University , New Brunswick , New York - New Jersey, USA
Kolodzei Foundation , New York - New Jersey, USA
G. Kostaki Collection , Thessaloniki, Greece
Collection E.Schukina , San - Francisco , United States
A.Zhirardo collection , Paris, France
New Museum, Cankt - Petersburg
and other public and private collections