Eduard Zentsik is a prolific Estonian-based artist of
many faces. He’s developed radically different artistic personas, refusing to
link his name to a single signature style, technique, or theme. Instead,
Zentsik mixes genres and media and playfully subverts the traditions of old.
Zentsik’s oeuvre is as enormous as it’s diverse. Some
of his endeavors, like the mildly macabre art brut series, focus on physical
metamorphoses and flourishes of the flesh. Others, like the highly symbolic
paintings made in the surrealistic canon, accentuate the spiritual aspects of
his philosophy. Elsewhere, the artist indulges in formless Pollockian color
drippings or flirts with digital media.
Zentsik’s paintings contain an open-ended space, a
distinctly magical reality where entities, artifacts, and concepts from
seemingly arbitrary eras and cultures serve their enigmatic purpose. No
mythology or esoteric teaching is immune to the artist’s tactful manipulations
- Zen in Zentsik goes hand in hand with Tao, Krishna, Christ, and the Twelve
Olympians.
This is not an intellectual game, though. Those
willing to unlock the code are likely (and welcome) to reveal metaphysical
depths. Some may find his work pretentious, but Zentsik is not afraid to use
self-aware decorative strategies and deceptively simple tropes to convey big
ideas. Behind the images, there is a powerful coherent cosmology explaining the
underlying natural order, the ulterior essence of everything. This is
true spiritual art with a transcendental message, ostensibly co-created and
inhabited by the spirit of the Creation itself (all artworks have always
existed, you know). Zentsik’s mission, therefore, is to cut open two-way
windows between our world and the fantastical realm through which mystical
figures and phenomena on the other side meet our gaze. Aren’t these the
proverbial Platonic ideas represented on canvas in vaguely familiar forms?
Painter, photographer, graphic artist, designer,
author of installations, performances and musical improvisations. Organizer of
youth exhibitions and projects. For over years of creativity had more than a hundred
personal exhibitions and took part in numerous joint projects. Participant and
winner of international Photographic and Art competitions. Numerous works are
in private collections around the world.
Member of the Estonian Association of Artists.
Member of the Photographers Union in Estonia.
Member of the Russian Artists Union in Estonia.
Member of the Union Painters of Estonia.
1995 year – member of avant-garde artistic projects.
1996-1997 year – personal classes in art studio of I.
Lukyanov.
1998 year – accepted into the closed club of artists
"April".
2000-2004 year – study at the Art Academy of Estonia.
Freelance artist since 2006 year.
2011 Author's works were included in the book of
art-critic Galina Balashova "Installation
on the background of estonian landscape" about
the important russian artists in Estonia.
2012 Publication of personal book about art Eduard
Zentsik "My universe".
2011 The first prize in the international competition
"Art Moment", St. Petersburg, Russia
2012 Prize in the biggest international photo
competition - Wiki loves monuments
2012 Annual premium young talented artists
Kultuurkapital.
2017 Painting is in the collection of the museum
Schloss Fall, Estonia.
2018 One work in the collection maestro of fashion
Alexander Vasiliev.
Seven works by the artist acquired the collection of
the Pushkin Museum Preserve.
Two works are in the collection of the Museum Reserve
Plyos.
The four works are in the collections of the Gallery
of the Narva.
Two works in the museum’s collection of Sillamae.
One work in the collection of the New York Outsider
Art.
One work in the collection of The Museum of New Art Pärnu, Estonia.
Art video are in the collection of the Pushkin Museum
Preserve.
