Leonid Varushkin

Candidate of Art History, Associate Professor
at the Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design, member of the St. Petersburg Union of Artists, diploma recipient of the Russian Academy of Arts

Ruslan Anatolyevich Bakhtiyarov

Candidate of Art History, Associate Professor at the Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design, member of the St. Petersburg Union
of Artists, diploma recipient of the Russian Academy of Arts

Ruslan Anatolyevich Bakhtiyarov

"The colossal role of visual information in the modern world inspires Leonid Varushkin
to analyze its aesthetics and semantic frameworks as a means of organizing a new reality in visual art. Constantly experimenting with space and color, the author identifies points of intersection between the real and virtual worlds.

Using techniques such as repetition and multiplication of images ("Destruction"), sequencing the movement of a runner from start to finish, or blurring the figure
of a person languishing in the heat with a "paintly Photoshop" effect, the artist seeks
to immortalize the trace of fleeting movement as a step (or leap) into the future. Leonid Varushkin explores the very moment of transition from randomness to pattern across
a wide range of expressive means — from photorealism to street art.

A special place in his work is occupied by a distinctive minimalism of simple forms
and concise colors, where the author constructs, through combinations of different materials and techniques, his own reality as an alternative to the world around us
and its virtual double."

"The colossal role of visual information
in the modern world inspires Leonid Varushkin
to analyze its aesthetics and semantic frameworks as a means of organizing a new reality in visual art. Constantly experimenting with space and color, the author identifies points of intersection between the real and virtual worlds.

Using techniques such as repetition
and multiplication of images ("Destruction"), sequencing the movement of a runner from start
to finish, or blurring the figure of a person languishing in the heat with a "paintly Photoshop" effect, the artist seeks to immortalize the trace
of fleeting movement as a step (or leap) into
the future. Leonid Varushkin explores the very moment of transition from randomness to pattern across a wide range of expressive means — from photorealism to street art.

A special place in his work is occupied
by a distinctive minimalism of simple forms
and concise colors, where the author constructs, through combinations of different materials
and techniques, his own reality as an alternative
to the world around us and its virtual double."

"The colossal role of visual information in the modern world inspires Leonid Varushkin to analyze its aesthetics and semantic frameworks as a means
of organizing a new reality in visual art. Constantly experimenting with space and color, the author identifies points of intersection between the real
and virtual worlds.

Using techniques such as repetition and multiplication of images ("Destruction"), sequencing the movement of a runner from start to finish,
or blurring the figure of a person languishing in the heat with a "paintly Photoshop" effect, the artist seeks to immortalize the trace of fleeting movement as a step (or leap) into the future. Leonid Varushkin explores
the very moment of transition from randomness to pattern across
a wide range of expressive means — from photorealism to street art.

A special place in his work is occupied by a distinctive minimalism of simple forms and concise colors, where the author constructs, through combinations of different materials and techniques, his own reality as an alternative
to the world around us and its virtual double."

Leonid Varushkin (born in 1995) is an interdisciplinary artist. He creates his artworks
in the field of painting, graphics, and spatial objects. He was born in the city
of Ulyanovsk. Currently, he lives and works in St. Petersburg.

EDUCATION
2017- 2023 - Repin Academy of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg (painting department,
workshop of Savkuev H.V.)
2022 - Laboratory of the Young Artist "Start" by the ART FAIR, Chelyabinsk
2011- 2015 - Chelyabinsk Art College (the Tchaikovsky Law School), Chelyabinsk

EXHIBITIONS
2023 "ART Workshop XXI", Zurab Tsereteli Art Gallery, Moscow
2023 "Space beyond time", Contemporary Art Center, Veliky Novgorod
2023 "The Art of Labor", Time Ahead, Moscow
2022 "Cultural Code", St. Petersburg
2022 "Through Other People's eyes", Rakov Gallery, St. Petersburg
2020 "Today. Through our eyes", ART DOT, St. Petersburg
2019 "Two-Faced Janus", The Museum of the Academy of Arts, St. Petersburg
2018 "Painting. From the methodological Foundation", Academy of Fine Art,
St. Petersburg
2011, 2014 "State Russian Plein Air named after Turzhansky", Minyar

Leonid Varushkin (born in 1995) is an interdisciplinary artist. He creates his artworks in the field of painting, graphics, and spatial objects. He was born
in the city of Ulyanovsk. Currently, he lives and works in St. Petersburg.

EDUCATION
2017- 2023 - Repin Academy of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg (painting department, workshop of Savkuev H.V.)
2022 - Laboratory of the Young Artist "Start" by the ART FAIR, Chelyabinsk
2011- 2015 - Chelyabinsk Art College (the Tchaikovsky Law School), Chelyabinsk

EXHIBITIONS
2023 "ART Workshop XXI", Zurab Tsereteli Art Gallery, Moscow
2023 "Space beyond time", Contemporary Art Center, Veliky Novgorod
2023 "The Art of Labor", Time Ahead, Moscow
2022 "Cultural Code", St. Petersburg
2022 "Through Other People's eyes", Rakov Gallery, St. Petersburg
2020 "Today. Through our eyes", ART DOT, St. Petersburg
2019 "Two-Faced Janus", The Museum of the Academy of Arts, St. Petersburg
2018 "Painting. From the methodological Foundation", Academy of Fine Art,
St. Petersburg
2011, 2014 "State Russian Plein Air named after Turzhansky", Minyar

Leonid Varushkin (born in 1995) is
an interdisciplinary artist. He creates his artworks in the field of painting, graphics, and spatial objects. He was born in the city of Ulyanovsk.
Currently, he lives and works in St. Petersburg.

EDUCATION
2017- 2023 - Repin Academy of Fine Arts,
St. Petersburg (painting department, workshop
of Savkuev H.V.) 
2022 - Laboratory of the Young Artist "Start"
by the ART FAIR, Chelyabinsk
2011- 2015 - Chelyabinsk Art College
(the Tchaikovsky Law School), Chelyabinsk

EXHIBITIONS
2023 "ART Workshop XXI", Zurab Tsereteli Art Gallery, Moscow
2023 "Space beyond time", Contemporary Art Center, Veliky Novgorod
2023 "The Art of Labor", Time Ahead, Moscow
2022 "Cultural Code", St. Petersburg
2022 "Through Other People's eyes", Rakov Gallery, St. Petersburg
2020 "Today. Through our eyes", ART DOT,
St. Petersburg
2019 "Two-Faced Janus", The Museum
of the Academy of Arts, St. Petersburg
2018 "Painting. From the methodological Foundation", Academy of Fine Art, St. Petersburg
2011, 2014 "State Russian Plein Air named
after Turzhansky", Minyar