He was born in Norilsk, and loves everything that is connected with the joy of life. His teacher says the artist Paul Klee. Prefers well-emotional Impressionists, Picasso, Gaudi, the Austrian Art Nouveau era, and Michelangelo. Valued different - bright, good, strong or dramatic - the music. Among his passions - Purcell, Verdi, Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky, Schumann. Feeding a particular fondness for the ballet, choreographed by Maurice Bejart enjoys Pina and Bush, the American troupes "modern". Strongest kinovpechatleniem calls the "flower of 1001 nights" Pasolini. Cinema Sokurov, Parajanov, Greenaway, Fellini, Antonioni, Visconti equally attracted his attention. Performances, created by
Andrey Bartenev, has its origins in the "Salon of independent artists, in Sochi, where the opening of art exhibitions was accompanied by a theatrical actions to simple stories.
Andrew says: 'I'm not nearly passive and active living life.
During the constant internal experiment unexpected things happen - so many dreams and emotsioniruetsya. One gets the feeling that you are inside a huge water flying up the stream. It passes through you, and you manage to capture only a small part of. When I think that my strength and running out of ideas, it is misleading. When I continue to experience, hoping to repeat it in a new capacity, he always repeats differently - as a new emotion. This stream, flying up (and not falling down dead weight), is striking in its interminable ".
. The artist's works are intriguing title: "Girl with two fireworks", . "Self-Portrait in a wedding dress a bird of paradise", . "Montpensier in the zoo", . "Portrait in Boots, . "Calmness two clown (who left after the auction at Sotheby's" ART-MYTH "93" in a private collection in Toronto), . "I Fairies, . I - beautiful fairies ", . "Self-Portrait in the role of Arnold Nijinsky",
. The style of his works, of course completely removed for the border of realism.
Andrey Bartenev - an artist who works with equal success in the genre of collage, decoupage, linear graphs, pastels, installation. Most famous as the author of performances and black and white collection of costumes from papier-mache, entitled "Botanical Ballet," rocked the Assembly untamed fashion in Jurmala. Like a bird of paradise Moscow art parties, often catches the eye delightful clothes, get into the photographers around the world.
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