Dimitri Tsykalov




















Born in 1963 in Moscow
He lives and works in Paris since 1991.
Dimitri Tsykalov studied graphic arts at the Polygraphic Institut in Moscow. He worked in parallel on drawing and painting in the studios of the Muscovite painters L. Lamm and A. Jilikov.
As a sculptor, he uses fragile and ephemeral live material to show a form of violence that he detects in the contemporary world. His sculptures are made of wood, fruits and vegetables, meat or wool. With humour and poetry, sometimes with brutality, Dimitri Tsykalov questions about the needs of our consumer society - reproducing with wood a set of « technological » objects; about the fragility of the worldwide economy - realizing gigantic credit cards made by grass or frayed wool; or yet about the fugacity of our passage on earth - revisiting the genre of still life or setting scenes with naked warriors waving arms or flags made of raw meat.
Exhibitions
Safarix
March 30th - September 4th 2016
Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris
SKIN
December 5th 2015 - January 28th 2016
Galerie Rabouan Moussion, Paris, FR
Unlimited Bodies
13th - 24th October 2012
Palais d'Iena, Paris, FR
Bêtes Off
11th November 2011 - 11th March 2012
La conciergerie, Paris, FR
Money
14th November 2009 - 31st January 2010
Galerie Rabouan Moussion, Paris, FR
Meat
24th September - 26th Cctober 2008
Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, FR