Anatolii Ivanovich Sivkov

He was buried at the Kovalevsky cemetery in St.

• Name — Anatoly Sivkov • Birth Name — Anatoly Ivanovich Sivkov • Born — February 18, 1952 • Birthplace — Meret, Siberia • Field — Painting • Movement — Contemporary • Training — Novosibirsk State University • Died — 7 February 2017

After completing his training; Sivkov in 1976 entered the faculty at the Leningrad Institute of Theatre. In pre-perestroika Soviet Russia Sivkov began to work as a creative director for a number of theatres in Leningrad and Perm. With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 his career as an artist grew independently from the artistic mainstream. He is recognized as a member of the Union of Artist of the Russian Federation. Sivkov has participated in exhibitions in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Paris, London, Amsterdam and North America. In 2002 a retrospective of his work was held in Regensburg, Germany.

Sivkov's paintings are characterized by a kaleidoscopic complexity of colour, the layered impasto of his palette, and an applied etching technique that reinforces a sense of flatness in his composition. Sivkov’s style is enormously individualistic and is evasive of classification. His art holds a tense equilibrium between unrelinquished expression and compositional exactitude.

Sivkov’s paintings are composed by the heavy, garish sumptuousness of his palette. His colours and application of, are expressive. The eloquence of his colours come to delineate the non-perspectival pictorial space. Combined with the impasto texture of his work, Sivkov's palette creates a technically sensorial opus.

Sivkov's line art aesthetic, which he employs by a process of applying a heated needle to his thickly coated canvases, adds a compositional element that distinguishes his style from his contemporaries. His work draws inspiration from the ancient temple reliefs of Egypt and Mesopotamia. This is most evident in his proportionality, sense of imposing permanence and almost exclusively depicting the facial profile of his subjects. A correlation can be inferred in his work between ancient bas-reliefs and line art. Despite the fact that line art tends to be monochromatic Sivkov's engraved lines act in a semi-autonomous relationship from the other elements in his compositions. In this fashion his lines act independently from the artist's palette to emphasize form and outline.

Solo and group exhibitions: • 1997: Group exhibition S.S.S.R., or in Cyrillic 'C.C.C.P' (Synochkin, Sivkov, Safronov. Russia) in the Dostoevsky Literary Memorial Museum, St. Petersburg. • 1997: Winner of "Window on Holland" exhibition, the Consulate of the Netherlands in St. Petersburg. • 1996-98: Season auctions of Russian artists working in Paris. • 1998: Group exhibition in Rochester City, NY. • 1999: Group Exhibition, Santa Barbara, California. • 2000: ARTEXPO San Francisco, California. • 2001: ARTEXPO New York, New York. • 2003: Group exhibition at Mr. and Mrs. Tovbin home. San - Francisco, California. • 2003: Group exhibition at Mr. and Mrs. Portnoy, Hillsborough, Calif. • 2004: Group exhibition in publishing place Artodox, San - Francisco, California. • 2007: Mix: Russian Contemporary Art. Group exhibition at Fort Mason, San Francisco, California. • 2010: Group exhibitions outside the U.S: the Netherlands, Britain, France, Russia (St. Petersburg, Moscow, Novosibirsk) • 2010: Personal exhibition in Galerie Vinogradov, Berlin.

• goQ8T2jpfkcAnatol Sivkoff Modern Art Urban Architecture St.Petersburg • buVfXOFJ_Q8Anatol Sivkoff the best Russian artist from St.Petersburg