Chirkov Konstantin (NOHEROES)

Graduate of the Moscow Automechanical Institute in the programme "transport design". Trained at the VolksWagen design studio near Berlin.

Worked as an illustrator-designer in such agencies as Milk, Leo Burkett, Grey, BBDO, VMLY&R Commerce. He taught fashion sketching at the British Design School for 5 years.

He started to make art in 2011.

At the current stage of creative development, the artist creates symbolism-filled works that combine abstract and figurative painting, as well as experiments with composition and texture. The author's paintings are characterized by an abundance of details, which create a certain visual noise that engages the viewer in a prolonged visual dialogue with the work.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2021 — 2022 - "Starfall" Here on Taganka Gallery
2019 — Artoholocs street art auction 6 "Artoholocs traffic"
2019 — Moscow street art fest
2018 — Artoholocs street art auction 5 "Artoholics awards"
2018 — Artoholocs street art auction 4 " Artoholocs heretic"
2018 — Artoholocs underwater gallery
2017 — Artoholocs street art auction 3
2017 — Artoholocs street art auction 2
2017 — Artoholocs street art auction 1
2012 — Y4Y "The young for the young" Art Ru agency, Moscow

"I am pushing my creative boundaries that started in industrial and graphic design. The themes and subjects of my work are rather secondary, they are like a colourful wrapper with a reflection of modernity for my abstract experiments. I seek to shape colour and tone not by mixing colours, but through abstract patterns composed of brushstrokes and visual noise consisting of pencil strokes, paint splatters and scratches. I explore how changes in composition and framing alter the perception of the work. I also analyse how my background in industrial and graphic design influences my work. I look for illogical solutions in the creation of my works, trying to destroy this very background, as I believe that I am constrained by its rules and frames. Each new work is an experiment that gives the key to the next, on the way to finding my own identity and realising my vision of figurative expressionism.

In my works I want to partially reflect my subjective view of the times in which we live, through the image (NOHEROES), which represents in my understanding the modern man, which is filled with symbolism and aggression, inherent in my opinion of the whole generation.

NOHEROES is a comedic compilation of my frustrations."

Konstantin Chirkov, an artist