Mark Tochilkin (Ukrainian / Israeli, b.1958) - Pianist, Mixed Media on Paper.
Signed.
56x82cm.

From 1973 to 1977 Mark Tochilkin received his formal art training at the Dnepropetrovsk Institute of Art. After his studies, Tochilkin experienced a wave of artistic success and even joined the Soviets Artist Society in 1988.
After immigrating in the 1990s to Israel, Tochilkins popularity grew; he now participates in many shows, art institutions, and galleries, both in Israel and abroad. He has achieved particularly great success in the United States where his works are displayed on a regular basis.
Mark Tochilkins works reveal a strong and ironic sense of humor. The painter distances himself from straight illustration and realistic painting, instead preferring subjects which are frankly abstract and imaginary. Tochilkin views his art as a game in which the viewer is free to accept (or reject) the rules of the game. The different facets of his work and personality expand rather than contract the many artistic planes in which the painter works. Tochilkins creations display both the bright lights and the hidden shadows of the human comedy, which takes its shape as an indissoluble totality.