marsel yalalov

Marsel Yalalov was born in 1980 in Orenburg, Russia, where he spent his childhood and youth. Here he graduated from the Orenburg State Institute of Arts with a degree in painting, after which he enrolled at the Orenburg State University, receiving a diploma in graphic design and joined the Artists Trade Union of Russia. In 2006 he moved to Moscow where he completed the course in "New Artistic Strategies" at the Joseph Backstein Institute of Contemporary Art. He currently lives and works in Moscow.

In his early works, Yalalov reworks form into a sign, using the traditions of painting and the legacy of modernism. Since 2018, Yalalov has been using the method of collage and deconstruction, balancing between traditional painting and a digital file. His mixed media technique tends to combine oil painting with airbrushing to eliminate traces of the artist's hand. Using new technologies and the most vibrant color palette, Yalalov overcomes the limitations of painting and brings the canvas closer to the image glowing from the screen.

By reinterpreting the subject of painting, he creates his own way of seeing in an alternative multilayered reality.

This explosive mixture of news, social and current events surrounding the artist, superimposed on personal stories and reactions, is transformed onto the canvas, on which objects, taken out of context, are combined, creating new meanings and tending towards irreversible entropy.