KOVALCHUK Andrei

Born in 1959 in Moscow.
In 1981 he graduated from the Moscow Higher Industrial Art School named. S.G. Stroganov, sculpture department.
. Since 1978, participates in various Moscow, Russian and international exhibitions.
. The artist works in the field of small plastic, portrait and monumental art, basing its work on the traditions of the realist school.
. Author of the monument as "Chernobyl victims" in Moscow
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Collections where works

His works are in private collections in Russia, Austria, Belgium, Hungary, Germany, USA, Finland's, France.

Participation in exhibitions and auctions

1988 Victims of Chernobyl. Competition for the monument to Moscow (First Prize). Moscow;
1988 Decembrists. Competition for the monument (second prize). Chita. Russia;
1992 International Island Arts (Cite inter-nationale des arts). Personal exhibition. Paris.
Autobiographical notes

I work in different genres of sculpture: small, plastic, portrait, monumental sculpture. Her favorite material - bronze. I try to use different quality (texture, polish, color).
Great influence on my work has had a classical art (Greece, India, Russian sculpture XVIII - XIX centuries., Gothic art, the Roman portrait).

Bibliography

The newspaper "Russian idea", N3886, July 5, 1991, interview with Anatoly Kopeikin, Paris, pp. 15;
A. Lyubavina Andrei Kovalchuk, magazine "Artist", N3, 1987, p. 38-39.