Andrey Molchanovsky. Sculpture. Optical glass

On October 5, at the All-Russian Museum of Decorative, Applied and Folk Art, a personal exhibition of sculptor Andrei Molchanovsky “Sculpture. Optical glass. "

Andrey Molchanovsky. Crossing the Rubicon

The sculptor and glass artist Andrei Molchanovsky is one of the most interesting sculptural artists in the field of modern art glass.

The works of Andrei Molchanovsky are always expressive and emotional. Powerful polished glass blocks are distinguished by their generalization and conciseness of forms. The material itself gives the work a special elitism and refinement.

Andrey Molchanovsky. Walk on the Black Sea

The element of glass, with live optical effects, has become a unique opportunity for the author to reflect a kaleidoscope of events of our time and convey to the viewer her vision of the infinite beauty of the world.

The artist’s acquaintance with optical glass “turned” his life. He was conquered by new material for him, with its bewitching light effects and plastic transformations.

These amazing and unique properties and capabilities of optical glass became a powerful impetus for the implementation of the author’s figurative and plastic designs at a new, undoubtedly bright, stage in the work of Andrei Molchanovsky.

Andrey Molchanovsky. sunny day

The works of Andrei Molchanovsky are characterized, first of all, by the modernity of the plastic language. Powerful polished glass blocks are distinguished by their generalization and conciseness of forms. They are large-scale, powerful and positive, and the material itself gives the work a special elitism and refinement.

As for the figurative beginning, the works of Andrey Molchanovsky are always extremely expressive and emotional, often bribing with their subtle humor. For him, the element of glass, with lively optical effects, became a unique opportunity to reflect a kaleidoscope of his life impressions and events of our time, the range of which is wide and varied.

The works of Andrei Molchanovsky have an amazing appeal. They give the viewer a unique opportunity for mutual co-creation with the author, along with him it is piercing to feel the endless beauty of the world around him, which excite the artist himself and, undoubtedly, will not leave the spectators indifferent.

About the artist:

Andrei Petrovich Molchanovsky graduated in 1992 from the sculpture department of the Odessa Art College named after M. B. Grekova, and then in 1999 - the State Art and Industrial Academy. bar. Stieglitz (formerly V.I. Mukhina) in St. Petersburg. From his student years, he took part in numerous exhibitions and sculptural symposia both in Russia and abroad.

In 2008 he was awarded a diploma of the Russian Academy of Arts.

In 2012, he was awarded the silver medal of the Russian Academy of Arts.

The artist’s works are in the State Museum of Glass and Crystal of Nikolsk, a collection of modern art, the Central Exhibition Hall Manege in St. Petersburg, the State Museum of Ceramics and the Estate of Kuskovo of the 18th century, in private and corporate collections in Russia and abroad.

Lives and works in Moscow.