Andrei Siderski
Born: 1960
Hometown: Kyiv, Ukraine
Living and Working: Kyiv
About The Artist
Siderski was born in 1960 in Kyiv, Ukraine. In 1964 – 1968 studied in Naum Ostashynskiy art school for children.
Aimed to prevent specific form of scoliosis and further paralysis of the lower limbs, Siderski started active training in swimming in 1969 and in 1976 he started to learn yoga gymnastic exercises and breathing techniques as a part of training for swimmers and divers.
Andrei Siderski has practiced yoga actively since 1978. At 1980 he started using yoga elements when training divers, then taught yoga to a few select free-divers and some other sportsmen, eventually expanding his audiences, teaching yoga and yoga therapy. At the moment Siderski is one of the world's leading specialists in developing modern yoga teaching methods and psychotronic training techniques.
Yoga significantly influenced Siderski's style of painting, and in 1990-2003 he developed Psychotronic Art — a psycho-technological action movement, which is based on the effect — geometric objects' colored surfaces have an influence on energy-informational space content. Artworks of Andrei Siderski are performed in abstract painting genre.
An important view on his professional practice is
revealed according to the book by Ajit Mukherjee "Yoga Art"
(published in 1975) about works of visual art created by yoga practitioners.
An interesting detail is that Andrei Siderski established the first yoga studio in Kyiv, Ukraine, in the area, where Kazimir Malevich, a pioneer of geometric abstract art and the originator of the avant-garde Suprematist movement, lived and learned, and where, we can say, metaphysics of the place transforms into a physical creativity.
As envisioned by the author Siderski's paintings are intended to give practical help in addressing challenges encountered by an individual in the modern society. To name such approach the artist has suggested the term Psychotronic Art (he used earlier also the short term Psy Art, but later abandoned it because of the risk that it will be wrongly interpreted as a psychedelic). In the words of Siderski, this is the mindset, the way of interaction with the world, which goes beyond mere images, but is greater: this is making your life.
“Art is usually an expression of the creator, artist. But my paintings are a technology. Besides having an aesthetic function they also help to set up the space in a certain way... Icons, yantras, mandalas influence in a similar way as psychotronic art. The inspiration prevents this approach. That is why I try to "remove myself", and instead tune in to a certain wave, and read the information that is needed to create. It is a some kind of meditation. Depending on the technique, the artwork can be easily created, or its creation may take several months. Sometimes, the image is discovered at once and then I need to work out details, that is the most difficult thing. I can not explain how it is done - there are things that can not be described in words, but I can pass this skill to another person. I make no secret of it..." (from an interview with Andrei Siderski for "The People", April 2015).
Siderski sets quite practical goals for his abstract paintings. This may be overcoming complex family or business issues, or hardships in communication with the others. Paintings are intended to sustain the inner power, to bring clarity and piece in mental processes, assist more complete perception of own inner world. His Psychotronic Art serves as an aid to find the way out of a deadlock, a tool for expansion of consciousness. It is thereby implied that the work of paintings remains unnoticed by the observer.
Previously, Siderski created artworks for solving specific problems and his paintings were functionally focused, "targeted". A few years ago, he changed his approach. Siderski has set a goal for himself to create works as an universal instrument of influence on the information content in a space. Under the influence of such artwork and driven by their true intentions people would be able to solve any issues that they face.
Almost all the paintings are in private collections and galleries (United States of America, Great Britain, Switzerland, Ukraine, Russia). He participated in major exhibitions as well as held personal exhibitions in London, Zurich, Geneva, New-York, and Moscow.
In April 2014 Siderski was rated as 25th by The Art Newspaper Russia in its "The top 50 most expensive living artists of the Russian Art". Later, the magazine's experts have recognized that they erroneously listed the Ukrainian artist among Russian artists, but an assessment of the value of his artworks in the ranking was justified.
Art shows and exhibitions:
The article "The art of inner harmony" by Evgenia Emets about artworks by Andrei Siderski, written after the exposition "The Geometry of Enlightenment" in the Elena Vrublevskaya Gallery (February 2008).
The Magic Tree
2015
The Door
2016
Who knows the Way?
2007
Yantra
2012
The Drop of Heaven
2014
"13"
1991
Tao of Prosperity 1
2007
The Mind Stopper №1
2015
The Transition
2015
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"15"
2007
The Iron Cross
2013
The Crown
2017
Music of the Spheres
2006
Yantra
2013
Tao of Silence
2007
The Red Item
2014
The Wheel
2006
"3"
2007
Three Magic Dots
2016
"4"
2007
The Golden Line
2016
Yantra
2012
Silencio
2016
The Contrast Item
2016
The No Name Object
2015
Dharma-Fish
2003
Yantra
2014
The Five
2016
Dream cake
2004
The Red Circle
2017
The Stargazer
2014
Winter garden
2002
Logo for Junn
2015
The Magic Rain
2016
The Seal of Silence
2006
The Magic Shield
2015
Yantra
2012
The Funnel of Fate
2004
Stopping the World
2016
Tao of Prosperity 2
2007
Vairagyam
2014
The Secret Weapon
2003
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