Alexander Chursin
Portrait of the disgraced poet Tupac Amaru Shakur
Wide: 56 cm / 22 inch
Height: 76 cm / 29.9 inch
Material: Oil on canvas, 2018
Alexander Chursin (1988)
Alexander Chursin is a contemporary Russian artist who works with the principles of figurative painting, superimposing it on a modern discursive layer, unfolding the representation of images within certain recognizable series. Having a classical art education, he creates modern paintings with the old masters techniques, using the methods and means of expression of classical canvases, nevertheless, the artist adheres to the postmodernist context.