Dmitry Kustanovich

From the series Walls

Dmitry Alexandrovich Kustanovich (Russian: Дмитрий Кустанович; born March 29, 1970 in Minsk), nickname Kust (Russian: Куст) is a Belarusian -born artist that currently resides in Saint-Petersburg, Russia.^[1][2]

Kustanovich graduated from the Belarusian State Pedagogical University in 1996,^[1] served in the Soviet Army and worked as a construction worker.^[3]

Kustanovich has developed an original technique based on the wider use of palette knifes rather than brushes. Kustanovich says:

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I model the space with the palette knife expressing its to-day state, its momentousnesses, its current minute. This is my technique. It is emotional. It has its own philosophy. The world expressed through it is manifolded. It is different.

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The technique has elements of the impressionism, expressionism, primitive art, conceptual art.^[3]

Since 1996 Kustanovich has participated in a number of personal exhibitions in Minsk, Moscow, Germany, France, Lithuania, Netherlands, Portugal.^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Biography
2. ^ Official site of Dm. Kustanovich (Russian)
3. ^ ^{a b} Dmitry Alexandrovich Kustanovich. Modern Art (Russian)

External links

• Official site of Kustanovich, English vesrsion

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Name	Kustanovich, Dmitry
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