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DMITRI V. POLTAVSKI, Russian artist, born on 13 March 1975, started painting at the age of 19. The medium he uses are Indian ink and Rapidograph pens. He also creates works in the digital technique (Adobe Photoshop, Corel Painter). Poltavski is Prize winner of MAC21 International contemporary art fair (2002 and 2003, Spain), 9th Internet International art/photo contest (2002, Japan). He lives in Chita (Eastern Siberia, Russia). His personal webpage at www.poltavski.h10.ru.

Here is Poltavski in "his own words":

"I have no routines or personal history. One day I found out that they were no longer necessary for me and, like drinking, I dropped them. One must have the desire to drop them and then one must proceed harmoniously to chop them off, little by little. If you have no personal history, no explanations are needed; nobody is angry or disillusioned with your acts. And above all no one pins you down with their thoughts. It is best to erase all personal history because that makes us free from the encumbering thoughts of other people. I have, little by little, created a fog around me and my life. And now nobody knows for sure who I am or what I do. Not even I. How can I know who I am, when I am all this?"*

*passage from a novel by carlos castaņeda —editor

For contacts: email Dmitri V. Poltavski.


click on the titles below to view more samples of Dmitri V. Poltavski's art.

Drawings India ink, Rapidograph pen 8.27 x 11.69 inches —UFO —Stranger —A season in hell —White dwarf —Idol —Wrinkles —Blasphemous rumours —Alien

Digital art Entomology series Illustrations for 'The life of insects' by Victor Pelevin, 2002 —Nocturnal butterfly —Headhunter —Point of view —The angel of the odd —Nose-glasses —Ghost-story —Skinhead —Moth