Oleg Tselkov

OLEG TSELKOV (Russia, 1934).
Untitled, 1992
Lithograph on 270 grams vélin d'Arches paper, copy 68/250.
Signed and justified by hand.
Measurements: 90 x 63 cm.

Oleg Tselkov trained with the theatrical designer and experimental artist Nikolay Akimov, graduating in 1958 from the Saint Petersburg State Theatre Arts Academy. Throughout the 60's and 70's he was in contact with other artists from very diverse fields, such as Arthur Miller, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Louis Aragon, Pablo Neruda and others. During the communist period he was persecuted and finally settled, at the end of the 70's, in Paris. His painting concentrates on the human figure, intensely expressive and treated with forceful forms and intense colors that seek to reflect the conflicts and violence of his time.