Oleg Karpenko

Oleg Karpenko was born in 1956 in Ekaterinburg, Russia, in 1981, he graduated from the Ekaterinburg Architectural Institute. Since 1986, he has been participating in exhibitions both in Russia and abroad. He lives and works in Ekaterinburg. Oleg works in two ways: in the graphic artsblack and white graffito (cardboard, deepblack gouache, needle) and easel painting The European Middle Afes are a strong impulse to the artist's creative work. This is not only about time and space, but the epoch of the Middle Ages as the crossroads of the universal way of mankind.

The Perception of the world from the viewpoint of the Middle Ages becomes in his art the clue enabling penetration into human culture, into the past and the future, into eternity.The question of choice is one of the basic ones in the artist's masterpieces. This is the choice between life and death, between good and evil..

Ancient myths eternalhy relevant to the heavens are a key to, and a confirmation of basic events of being, those unseen feelings around which mysterious compositions arise

The Falcon hunt. 1987. Gouache, needle. 34*23. In a private collection.

Knight, death and devil. Gouache, needle. 1987. 55*33. Author's property.

Ann of a dream. 1990. Gouache, needle. 28*21. Author's property.

Warrior. 1987. Gouache, needle. 38*19. Author's property.

The Spring. 1990. Gouache, needle. 42*29. White Gallery.

The Virgin and The Bird. 1993. Gouache, needle. 28*15. Author's property.

The Dream. 1996. Gouache, needle. 55*38. Author's property.

Catarine. 1997. Gouache, needle. 60*25. Author's property.

The Virgin of Morning. 1994. Gouache, needle. 61*44. Author's property.

The Virgin of Chrysanthemums. 1994. Gouache, needle. 60*41. In a private collection.

Two swords. 1992. Gouache, needle. 40*31. Author's property.

The weeping. 1992. Gouache, needle. 42*30. In a private collection.

The Reminiscence. 1993. Gouache, needle. 27*20. Author's property.

The Virgin. 1991. Gouache, needle. 44*13. Author's property.

The Ties of dream. . 1991. Gouache, needle. 22*31. Author's property.