Organic the conventional world outlook in art. Main building

Studied in the children’s art school since the fifth school form. In 1968 graduated from Kishinev Republican Art College. In 1975 graduated from the Pictorial Art Faculty of the Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after I.Ye. Repin. Since 1971, worked in V.V. Sterligov’s studio (one of Malevich’s disciples). In 1999, the implemented the project «Time Element in Painting», which was an attempt to express an idea of«compressed time». In 2000 – 2004, participated in a study of plastic means of painting «Exercitia Spiritualia» based on V.V. Sterligov’s traditions and organized by Larisa Astrein. Resident at «Cite internationale des Arts» in Paris. Received the award: the Romanian Union of Artists (2001), the Municipality of Bacau, Romania (2003), and the Union of Artists of Moldova (2004). Beneficiary of the Soros-Moldova Foundation (2002). The founder of projects«Encoding-Signs» (2003), «From Object to Objectlessness» (2005, together with L. Astrein and D. Verdianu). In 2006, was awarded the silver medal of the Russian Academy of Arts. Since 2007, developed an idea of assemblages: joining several canvases in a pictorial object. In 2009-2010, was awarded the gold medal of the salon «Du Monde de la Culture et des Arts, Cannes-Azur», Cannes, France. Member of the Union of Artists of Russia and Moldova, the IFA, the Association of Russian Artists in Paris.

The artist’s works are in the following collections:

The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow; the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg; the Museum of the History of St. Petersburg; Central Exhibition Hall «Manege», St. Petersburg; the Museum of Nonconformist Art, St. Petersburg; the Museum of Contemporary Art and Art Galleries«ERARTA», St. Petersburg; the Municipal Museum «Tsarskoye Selo collection», Pushkin; the Museum of Organic Culture, Kolomna, Russia; the Yaroslavl Art Museum; the Mordovian Republican Museum of Fine Arts named after S.D. Erzya, Saransk; the Museum of Art named after I. Antonescu, Bacau, Romania; the National Art Museum of Moldova, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova; the Kazakh State Art Museum named after A.Kasteyev, Almaty, Kazakhstan; the Kyrgyz National Museum of Fine Arts named after G. Aitiev, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan; the Gallery of the Parliament of Romania, Bucharest; the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Romania; Foundation of Tatiana and Natalia Kolodziey, Moscow, Russia – USA; Foundation for Youth and Sports, Bucharest, Romania; Soros Foundation, Moldova; Sturza Foundation, Vienna, Austria – Republic of Moldova; Concern «Nordex», Vienna, Austria; JSC «Moldova Agroindbank», Republic of Moldova; City Hall of Vylchea, Romania; Norton and Nancy Dodge, USA; Galina and Anatoly Sidorovs, St. Petersburg; Galina and Felix Chudnovsky, St. Petersburg; Irina and Victor Ksenzovs, St. Petersburg; Victor Dzodziev, St. Petersburg; Suren Melnikyan, Paris; Vadim Nechayev, Paris.