Andrey Shatilov

Andrey Shatilov was born in 1987 in Akhtubinsk, Astrakhan Oblast. In 2006, he graduated from the Pavel Vlasov Astrakhan Art College, and in 2012, from the School of Graphic Design of the Volgograd State Pedagogical University.

Taking certain phenomena observed in everyday life, Shatilov reinvents them, introducing various symbols and surreal elements. The artist claims to have invented a trademark technique that he calls App.Art (short for appliqué art), whereby he scans through newspaper and magazine articles and tears out fragments of text intended to accentuate the visual message. He then proceeds to paste these scraps onto the traditional oil on canvas paintings.