Andrey Klassen
[Painting] is like . . . [creating] a world that’s only yours.
Andrey Klassen via We and the Color
In his work, Andrey Klassen (1984, Russia) demonstrates the endless variability of ink painting. His work fascinates, and not only because of the artist’s astonishing technical skill. Klassen moves ably through various sceneries whose contents may sometimes seem dream-like, surreal, fairytale-like, to be borrowed from art history, or even from everyday life. This broad spectrum in terms of content stands in contrast to Klassen’s formal concentration. He works almost exclusively with black ink on paper, and only very rarely do we find any color in his visual worlds.
