Childhood

Yuri KutYur (Yury Kutlugildin) honored artist, he belongs to a new generation of Artists whose creations reflect the present day life in its full diversity and dynamic. 

The artist was born in Yakutia, spent his childhood in the Ukraine and Bashkiria (Sibai). Once having visited Saint-Petersburg, he decided to stay, received an art education, and already for 17 years he’s been living and creating his works in this city. 

Now graphic works and paintings of the artist are being exhibited in galleries of Saint-Petersburg and Moscow. Many of his works can be found in private collections in the USA, Australia, Germany, France, Finland and Luxemburg. 

Artist works in the style of gothic modern, on the verge of the modern and the retrospective. His art is characterized by a blend of contemporary oil painting, elongated forms and gothic symbolism, austerity of composition and afocus on ornament and clothes details. His paintings are as colorful, bright and radiant as medieval stained glasses. The mask – like faces are full of light sorrow over lost innocence, tries to escape the hustle of the transient life, turning to the eternal.