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Season’s Greetings to All !

My best wishes to all who visit this site during this holiday season and the year to come! I hope that you have enjoyed your stay at this site and will visit often. Have a great winter season, stay well and safe. -Chas  Ultrawolvesunderthefullmoon.blog

The food gifs have been made by the talented cinematographic artist Daria Khoroshavina who is based in Moscow, Russia. Her project Kitchen Ghosts is about food, drinks and other little precious moments of life captured and looped in live photographs.

The Kitchen Ghosts project has been noticed and loved by many brands which led to successful collaborations with Pepsi, Martell, Blue Angel vodka, Schweppes, Amazon, Samsung and others.

Represented by:
glasshouseassignment
Kari Anderson
kari@glasshouseassignment.com

Igor Sychev

The Paintings of Igor Sychev

Born in February of 1987 in the northern city of Nadym, Igor Sychev is a Russian artist known for his Magic-Realistic figurative paintings. At the age of five years having shown an inclination towards the arts, his parents enrolled him in the city’s art school where he studied until the age of sixteen. Sychev left Nadym upon graduation and relocated to Novosibirsk, the capital of Siberia, where he entered the Faculty of Industrial Design at the State Academy of Architecture, Design and Fine Arts.

After graduating from the Academy in 2010, Sychev moved to Moscow, which as Russia’s capital offered wider prospects for a career and self-expression. He soon obtained employment as an industrial designer and created designs for furniture and interior spaces. In 2011 while working in the design field , Sychev began a personal study of oil painting techniques. Over the next ten years, Igor Sychev gradually redirected his energies into pursuing a career as a painter. 

In addition to the primary medium of oil paints, Igor Sychev also produces works in the mediums of watercolor, pencil, sepia and charcoal. His work is inspired by the works of the recognized Master artists , such as Michelangelo’s “David”, who viewed the nude male body as a source of beauty, Other influences on Sychev’s work include the paintings of Lucian Freud and Egon Schiele, the large-scale expressive paintings of Paolo Troilo, painter Gregory Little’s boldly colored figures in everyday scenes,  and Portuguese painter Carlos Barahona Possollo’s male nude paintings.   

As the present politics and attitudes in Russia are predominantly homophobic, Igor Sychev has not been able to exhibit in galleries or museums. He holds his private exhibitions in establishments offered by friends. Sychev’s work is held in many private collections throughout the world, including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Denmark, and South Africa, among others. 

Images of Igor Sychev’s paintings, watercolors and drawings, as well as contact information, can be found at the artist’s website located at: https://www.igorsychev.com

Bottom Insert Image: Igor Sychev, “Concrete Colours” Sketch, Date Unknnown, White/Black Pencil and Pen on Paper, Artist Collection (Available)

Dancers: Marusya Night Club

Denis Sinyakov, “Dancers from the Marusya Night Club, Moscow”, Photo Shoot

Born in Moscow in 1977, Denis Sinyakov is a Moscow based freelance photographer and videographer. He has had twenty years of experience in still and film photography including four years with the Agence France Press from 2003 to 2007 and five years with Reuters from 2997 to 2012, both based in Moscow. He also has a history of freelance work as photographer and videographer. 

Sinyakov has done work for Der Speigel magazine; Helsingin Sanomat, Liberation, News week, Sunday Times, CNN, Al Jezeera, Geo, TV Rain, the Medoza Project, and Greenpeace, International. Sinyakov places an emphasis on social and environmental issues, with a particular focus on the former Soviet republics and Russia. 

On the 19th of September in 2013, Denis Sinyakov and twenty-eight crew members of Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise were captured by Russian Federal Security Service agents in an international waters. He had been covering protest actions against oil exploration in the Arctic. Sinyakov, another journalist and the crew members were accused of piracy and then of hooliganism. Sinyakov was sentenced to two months in prison in Murmansk and then in Saint Petersburg. On the 24th of December in 2013, Russia granted amnesty to all thirty hostages from the Arctic Sunrise icebreaker.

Note: The Marusya is a nightclub-cabaret for women that is located in central Moscow. In addition to dancing routines and drink, special entertainments are arranged for single prosperous women willing to pay for private attention and time with a handsome male employee of the club. According to club rules, a man is required to stay with the female guest anywhere between half an hour to a couple of hours, depending on how much she pays.

Uno Moralez

Illustrations by Uno Moralez

Uno Moralez is a Moscow-based pixel painter with a sinister and unique take on old computer game aesthetics. He is a Russian enigma whose LiveJournal is written in Cyrllic, whose work is both drawn and published in digital pixels, whose output comes in the form of bizarre and ferociously NSFW image/gif galleries as often as comics or illustrations, and whose name is not even Uno Moralez.

“Unquestionably menacing and monstrous figures lurk smiling in shadowy rooms, bodies and objects arranged in inscrutable ways that nevertheless imply an unimpeachable in-story logic. It’s the logic of nightmares, yes, but whether we’re talking about his standalone images, his animated gifs, or his keyframe-style comics, they give off the sense that what’s happening makes sense to the individuals involved, which is the most fascinating and harrowing thing about Moralez’s work. The distance from here to there seems insurmountable, but he bridges it time and time again, in a lo-fi digital style that makes it seem like these images are woven from the fabric of the Internet itself.” _Sean T Collins, The Comics Journal

Yuri Shwedoff

Five Artworks by Yuri Shwedoff

Yuri Shwedoff was born in 1991.  He graduated in 2008 from the painting department of the Moscow Academic Art Lyceum of the Russian Academy of Arts. Also in 2008, Yuri Shwedoff was nominated for the Medal of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts for a series of works “Suzdal.” He has currently graduated from the Moscow State Academic Art University in Surikov and has  become a member of the Moscow Union of Artists. He has done work for Amedia and MOSFILM and had been lead artist for NARR8 from 2014 until February of 2014.