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Who Are You, Konstantin Terentyev?

Sibi - Bogdan Teodorescu: Who are you, Konstantin? 

Konstantin Terentyev (Константин Терентьев): I am an artist. I love flowers, grey weather and paper.

Konstantin Terentyev, 2022, pencil on paper
 

S-BT: Your universe looks very peculiar and you produce images with the speed of light. What are your re-sources of inspiration, what stimulates your work? Personally, I don't like that much this kind of question. I find it pretty vulgar when people try to find an explanation. Anyway, what pushes you forward?

KT: I get inspired from what is happening inside me and outside. It is difficult to classify, firstly visual pictures of nature, trees, landscape, architecture and so on.

S-BT: For a while most of the Western art shows were dominated by a certain gigantism. A part of what is recently produced tend to be smaller or fast. Your drawings themselves are rather small, bi-dimensional and you employ simple lines and popular materials. Is this a sort of a statement? 

KT: As for material and size of my pictures it is truly a conscious position. It is kind of personal to balance between simplicity and complexity, depth and shallowness and eventually to experience a sense of total absence of borders. For this reason it seems to me that the most simple and accessible materials are very suitable.


 
Konstantin Terentyev, 2022, pencil on paper

S-BT: Are you interested in other fields or to attack bigger formats or more compound techniques? 

KT: Sometimes I start getting ideas about painting on canvas, sculpture. These ideas are rarely realized.

S-BT: What would be your responsibility or relationship to the interpretation, -s of your frank and ambiguous images? 

KT: I'd be happy to deliberate diversity of interpretations and opinions about my art.

S-BT: Do you particularly like some artists? Would you like to meet someone in person? If you ask me, I love new encounters and exchanges. 

KT: A lot of the painters I like as well on Instagram. A lot! Robert Nava, for instance it's the first name that came in my mind. It'd be greatly appreciated to meet them.

S-BT: How much you are concerned about your artistic career? What about the audience, the public?

KT: I wish I could stop thinking about people's attention to your art. It seems not important but at the same moment thoughts involuntarily occur and I keep going thinking. I wish people would like my art.

S-BT: Do you sell well your art? 

KT: In case somebody wants to buy my pictures it would be great, but my sales experience is minimal.

S-BT: Can artists manage their activity without a curator? 

KT: I think artists need such a specialist as a curator, who can view the artist and the context from the outside.

S-BT: How often you take part in art shows?

KT: I did not participate in exhibitions during the last five years.

S-BT: Seems like networking is the norm today when it comes of success or visibility. How often you go out to openings and events? The number of your likes on Instagram is the opposite of your production. 

KT: I don't know much about networking, but I think it is something very nice. I did not visit vernissages for a quite long time, it results from living conditions. As for likes, I'm okay with the number of them, but if there were more, it would be nice.

S-BT: Can you imagine the future of Russian artists in the shadow of the present?

Concerning Russian art and artists, I have much hope for the better. Art can not exist without dialogue, communication and exchange. Darkness will pass, the light will stay. It is a point which may sound trite, but this is what I feel.

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