Georgiy Ostretsov

Georgiy (Gosha) Ostretsov was born in 1967 in Moscow. Living in Paris in 1988–1998, he collaborated with Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, Jean Paul Gaultier, and Luc Besson, creating costumes and performance pieces, and later turning to painting, drawing, and comic art. The artist currently lives and works in Moscow.

Ostretsov’s art revolves around ironic reinvention of mass culture and politics. The artist inquires into the correlation between the private and the public, exploring various clichés of social behaviour. Many of his projects are provocative and artistically daring. In his small and large-scale paintings and drawings, Ostretsov builds complex dynamic compositions. Using the collage-making approach, he superimposes images, often cropping them in a way that distorts their relative proportions, as if splicing together diverging realities.