Motolyanets Semyon
1982
About
Semyon Motolyanets included in the list of the Best Russian contemporary artists (ARTEEX). Semyon's Creativity presented in various genres: from graphics, painting, video to performance, installation and even literary works. Semyon was born and began his artistic education in Belarus, and then in St. Petersburg he graduated from the Department of Monumental and Decorative Painting of the Art and Industry Academy by Stieglitz (MUKHA) and the program "Modern Art" of the PRO ARTE Foundation, thus connecting the academic installations of the classic post-Soviet pictorial education with the newest formation of education in the field of contemporary art. The work of Semyon Motolyanets is well known to both the St. Petersburg public and the art community outside the northern capital. Actively participating in group exhibition projects since 2006, he is also a member of the PARAZIT association and is one of the founders of the SOAP group, winner of the Innovation-2009 award in the New Generation nomination. Motolianets's works — photographs, paintings, objects like screen covers, using Soviet archetypes — are energetic and biting postconceptualism, which is not enough on the local art scene. Photo: sobaka.ru