Igor Skaletsky

A multidisciplinary artist, working and living in Moscow, Tel Aviv, Berlin, and London. Creates paintings that combine grotesque elements with expressive vibrant colors and surrealistic composition.

A multidisciplinary artist who works and lives in Moscow, Tel Aviv, Berlin, and London. Born in 1978 in Voronezh, he immigrated to Israel with his parents at the age of 13. In 2006, Skaletsky participated in his first group project, an exhibition of young art called “Power,” which took place at the Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art. Even then, the curators defined the goal of his work as “associative exploration based on emotional experience.” A few years later, in 2008, Skaletsky earned his bachelor’s degree in the workshop of Tatiana Nazarenko at the Surikov Moscow State Academic Art Institute.
In 2009, Skaletsky held his first small solo exhibition in Moscow’s MEL space. In the following years, his works were featured in group and solo exhibitions in Moscow, Kaliningrad, Tel Aviv, Paris, Stockholm, and at art fairs around the world.
For many years, Skaletsky’s preferred technique was digital collage with elements of painting, which immersed the viewer in a phantasmagorical world of grotesque images borrowed from global mass media and classical Western culture. The artist’s method involved combining or juxtaposing seemingly incompatible visual elements from high and low culture, creating paradoxical, provocative, loud images, often on the verge of vulgarity and kitsch.
Recently, exclusively working with Alina Pinsky Gallery, he has turned to painting in which the grotesque is combined with expressive vibrant colors and surrealistic composition.