Artist Kustanovich Biography


The creative biography of the artist Dmitry Kustanovich was born on March 29 in Minsk. Lives and works in St. Petersburg. From to date, I held more exhibitions, of which most of them are personal. His works are in galleries and private collections of many countries of the world. He is the founder of a new style of painting - spatial realism. Spatial realism is the author’s style of painting by Dmitry Kustanovich, in which the space depicted within the same plane and within the realistic method due to expressive means of painting acquires the effect of three -dimensionality and dynamism.

The beginning of the artist’s creative activity took place in his hometown of Minsk. It was here that he began to create today the world -famous series “City Rains”, “Butterflies”, “Glass”, etc. The artist held personal exhibitions in Minsk, participated in the productions of theatrical scenals. In the year, the artist moves to St. Petersburg. The first exhibition in which the artist takes part brings him success and recognition.

Artist Kustanovich Biography

At his exhibition sites, famous Petersburg gallerymen accept him: Mikhailov Georgy Nikolaevich Creator and owner of the Free Russian Modern Art Fund, Tretyakov Vitaliy Petrovich and many others. Every year, the Christmas personal exhibition of Dmitry Kustanovich in the Smolny Cathedral of St. Petersburg passes and becomes the St. Petersburg tradition. The artist creates new series of paintings: “Russian”, “forest”, “St.

Petersburg courtyards”, “Dreams on the Neva”, “Film Film”, “Studies at the wheel”, “Triumph of Orthodoxy”, “Alexander-Nevsky Lavra”, “Aesthetics of Globalism”, “Women's images”, etc. The birthplace of the artist-Belarus has always remained a source of inspiration for him. The streets of his native Minsk, the unique beauty of the Belarusian nature always lived in memory, touched the artist’s heart and served as the plots of his paintings.

Working in St. Petersburg, he created and presented to the Russian viewer a new series of paintings, which he called with love "My little homeland is Belarus." In December, Dmitry Kustanovich was awarded the title of Academician of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design St. Petersburg. In June, Konyushennaya, 11, the personal gallery of painting Dmitry Kustanovich - "Gallery of Kustanovich" opened.

Located in the historical center of St. Petersburg, the gallery became one cultural centers visited by Petersburgers and guests of the Northern Capital. The gallery regularly hosts the artist’s master classes, musical and creative evenings. In the year, director Petr Soldatenkov, the author of the film about Vladimir Vysotsky and many other well -known documentaries, presented a new documentary about the artist Dmitry Kustanovich - “I love”.

The founder of spatial realism, Dmitry Kustanovich entered contemporary art as a master, which is distinguished by originality, recognition, depth of content and high level of performance. He created his visual language based on the personal, musical perception of the world. Much attention is paid to the surface of a picturesque work, the most picture plane, which is of great importance for the formation of an image space.

The nature of the compositions, a special solution to the surface form the specific dynamics of Kustanovich's paintings. A deep textured layer right on the canvas, the master creates a thick palette on which he technically and accurately forms his creative plan. The author found his handwriting, his technical techniques using mastichin, which makes it possible to make painting voluminous, multi -layer and multi -vanity.

His painting is textured, graphic and thin. The lines are rhythmic and free. In expression and emotionality - a sense of moderation and taste. He found a new stroke manner, he has his own, the so -called “oil graphics”. The technique of execution, as the technique of fingers of the musician, is neat, sensual, professional. Musical education helps the author perceive all natural phenomena at a subtle intuitive level, which gives him the rhythm of the compositional system and musicality of the palette.

Meeting of classical art and modern culture. References to images and styles of different eras. Mixing, the wealth of associations is characteristic of the artist’s work. Highlighting modern trends in art, we can say that the artist is separate. A kind of "loner" he attracts more and more attention every year. His handwriting is recognizable. It is one of the most popular contemporary artists.

Kustanovich’s paintings are acquired by both collectors and just amateurs, including for the purpose of financial investments. He is one of the few artists who, causing a lot of disputes around him, received independent recognition and love of the audience. Dmitry Kustanovich enters the history of painting as an artist who has become the founder of a new style of painting - spatial realism, as an artist, "bursting beyond the limits of a limited plane."