Yuri Chestnikov

Yuri was born in 1961 in Rostov-on-Don and currently lives and works in Tula.

Chestnikov’s unusual creative method consists in the absence of a distinctive signature style. As the artist puts it, ‘there is a gulf’ between his separate works, meaning that his individual style begins and ends with every creation. Yuri is open about finding inspiration in the legacy of the great modernist artists: each of his artworks carries an imprint of a certain 20th-century art movement.