Evgeniy Tsoy

Lives and works in Gyeongju, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea

Artist statement

Conceptual Graphic Symbolism ​When you rush through life, the world around you contracts, and you are involuntarily forced to see everything happening too closely and painfully. This is my vision of the World. In my art, you can see how I convey the message to the viewer, also in a kind of compressed format. Conceptual creative thinking helps build the picture in my head; I try to feel the motive of my future painting in lines that will precisely and clearly denote my thought, my idea. Only then do I begin to study the technical and artistic side in real-time, on real paper. This is how my new work is born. ​First and foremost, intellectual drawing, not aesthetics, is important to me. I am concerned with large-scale stories and events in the world for which people cannot get complete and clear answers. The figurative and graphic part of my works is influenced by the academic study practices I undertook at the Republican Academy of Arts named after K. Behzod. ​When I was a student, there was a methodological requirement from the Dean's office of the Academy for the departments of fine arts practices: all 1st and 2nd-year students were obliged to submit one copy each of an Eastern Miniature. I really liked the direction of this ancient genre (13th–15th centuries) in all its technical and artistic aspects. Words cannot describe it; you have to see it to understand. The super-massive detail and color palette of this genre are the most stunning in the field of world graphics....

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