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ABOUTI am reachable via Skype: nickmarci
I am a graphical artist from Russia, capital of the Siberia - Novosibirsk city. I graduated as arts teacher in 1996 and now work as a head of advertisement department and a designer at a company that makes skin care products. I do my paintings at my spare time. I started painting in my senior school years under influence of S.Dalí and fantasy painters.
I discovered - to my surprise - that people perceive the world differently than I. Artists are often remarked about condescendingly "he sees it this way", even if some nonsense is drawn. That's why I wanted to tell you what I see, but do it in such a way that you See it not literally, directly, but See what stands behind my paintings.
There are not many people who are interested in painting now, mostly those who do it themselves. So I address my works to people who are not indifferent and who would like to learn something new. I understand art as a way to pass information, thought, state of the soul. The more precisely a work of art transmits the mode of thought and worldview of its author, the better it is. Art has unclear boundaries now, and spectators view it differently. Some perceive a painting through associations from private experience, others remember a book on the subject. Some turn to philosophy trying to find verbal meaning, and some just look for colors matching those of their wallpaper. I use allegories, images and symbols to pass the knowledge and sensations which I have found and keep finding in my life. In ancient times art passed a special kind of information, affecting people internally and letting them be transformed. That was an objective art - which is now inaccessible. I am trying to find a path to this very art.
Some paintings succeed and others fail. Some image or its perception which is hard to keep in one's head is smoothly shifted to canvas. One has to remember also about the technique, composition, anatomy... only when everything is perfect, I can say that the painting succeeded and I can look into it at myself like in a mirror and show my inner world to those sensitive enough to see it. It's interesting to look how person changes with age - while I compare paintings of past years I see, like an archaeologist, the dynamics of my change.
The subjects of my paintings are close to fantasy with a hint of surrealism. Yet I would throw in some elements from symbolists. I am trying to reproduce my world, my feeling. For example, a sensation marooned inside, aching to escape, may take a form of a man with a light beam spreading from his chest. The ancient oldness of past civilizations I express with mysterious atmosphere of old statues covered with dark-blue dusk, images reflecting moonlight, hypnotizing and sucking the spectator in.
This website ended up storing all, or almost all, my works. Now I look at it and wonder, since it means more than just a bunch of pictures. And that is what I wanted - only selected few will truly feel it, but it is them I labored for.
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