Paper, water, and tenderness - selected work by Nikolay Tolmachev

 

Avant un baiser, 2014.

(Unfortunately, I've been unable to find titles and/or dates for many of these.)

Dawning, 2013.

De sadist.

D.

Noose.

The Big Kiss.

Zeus, 2013.

Summer Fire, 2013.

Enfin.

Shining.

Telemachus.

BBDC.

Brooch, 2014.

Melancholia, 2013.

Think, 2013.

Franciscus, 2013.

Hunter, 2013.

Shelter, 2013.

Au printemps.

BG, 2013.

Veil, 2014.

Amour, 2016.

Mother Earth.

Avant un baiser, 2014. (Detail.)

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I haven't been able to find much information on this young artist. Born in Ukraine in 1993, he studied at the Graduate School of Fine Arts there, and then at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris. In 2013 he was the winner of the competition of the UART Foundation, and three years later finalist of the Canson Art School Awards in the “Drawing and Painting” category. He is represented by the Parisian contemporary art gallery Da-End, as well as doing book illustration for publishers in Ukraine.

"The Viennese Secession was a great source of inspiration a few years ago, at a time when I was looking for my own style. I watched the work of Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele a lot. [...] I admired the way Klimt represents sexuality, fragility, and the way he paints the skin. [...] Today it is rather artists from the end of the XIXth, beginning of the XXth century who inspire me, like for example the Russian artists of the current Mir Iskusstva. But my source of inspiration at the moment is much more Roland Topor and René Magritte than Watteau."