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.
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Igor Skaletsky

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, the 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, and often on the edge of vulgarity and kitsch images.
Recently, exclusively working with Alina Pinsky Gallery, he has turned to painting in which grotesque is combined with expressive vibrant colors and surrealistic composition.

The selected works

Untitled, 2023
Oil on canvas

183 × 145 cm

Untitled, 2023
Oil on canvas

148,5 × 143 cm

Untitled, 2023
Oil on canvas

166 × 111 cm

Bellboy, 2022
Oil on canvas
110 × 100 cm
Untitled, 2023
Oil on canvas
160 × 143 cm
Louise, 2022
Oil on canvas
154 × 146 cm
Golfer, 2022
Oil on canvas
209 × 141 cm
Primal Scene , 2022
Oil on canvas

159 × 127 cm

Reclusive Bride, 2022
Oil on canvas

139 × 140 cm

I can't help but melt, 2022
Oil on canvas
174,5 × 140 cm
Lighthouse keeper, 2022
Oil on canvas
120 × 70 cm
Forest Stump, 2022
Oil on canvas
140 × 121 cm

Exposition views