Oleg Tselkov - Artist Info

About Oleg Tselkov

  • Biography

    Oleg Tselkov has lived in Paris since 1977 and he is the only one from the artists emigrants, who has received the honorary "Triumph" award. Heroes of Tselkov's paintings are well remembered — once having seen, will never forget …

    Artist Statement:

    « ...When I've suddenly seen this mug, I realized: it's not a face of somebody, but a face of mankind in whole. Actually I accidentally put off the mask from all the faces at once. I didn't task to "tear away the masks", and consequently I've seen not something good or bad, but something real, genuine, that we've got under our skin and what brings us together. I can't have a claim on somebody in person, but I have a claim on the masses humiliating, torturing, killing eac...

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