Through The Mist: Dmitri Aske

December 04, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Street Art, Art, Sculpture, Russia, Portfolios, 2017

Dmitri Aske, a multidisciplinary Russian artist, has had a large solo show in Moscow RuArts Gallery. The exhibition entitled Through The Mist, which lasted from November, 2 till December, 2, included 24 plywood relieves created in the artist’s unique technique and 4 middle-sized plywood sculptures. Dmitri had worked on the series for nine months.

According to the artist, the title of the show describes the life of modern people who try to find their own way wandering through the informational mist. The characters of all the artworks exist in the state of uncertainty, doubts, second thoughts, anxiety concerning past and future, which lies behind the white noise of our digital age.

Dmitri Aske is a versatile Moscow artist and one of the main figures behind the Russian urban contemporary art movement. He started his career in 2000 from writing graffiti, later moving to graphic design and illustration. In mid-2000s, Dmitri had collaborated with Nike, Reebok, PlayStation, and the like making different art objects and graphics. He also used to be an Edior-in-Chief of one of the first Russian graffiti magazines and a co-founder of a street wear brand. Since 2015, Aske has dedicated himself full-time to art, creating plywood tile relieves, sculptures, and painting murals. In 2016, according to the InArt research, he was named 4th by the sum of auction sales among the young Russian artists. Apart from working in the studio, Dmitri runs an online magazine vltramarine.ru, as well as gives lectures on graffiti and street art.

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Memory of the Land by Dmitri Aske

February 02, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Portfolios, Russia, 2016

A series of four multilayer plywood artworks created by Moscovian artist Dmitri Aske (Instagram). A homage to the photos of the Russian Empire made by a pioneer of colour photography Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky. All the details were laser cut, spray painted and assembled by hand.

Plywood Artworks by Aske, Sicksystems

April 13, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Illustration, Portfolios, Russia, Street Art

Dmitri Aske, also known as Sicksystems (previously), is a versatile artist from Moscow, Russia. He started his artistic career in 2000 as a graffiti writer and later started working with plywood cutting to create outstanding and unique artworks.

Vectors in Plywood by Aske Sicksystems

January 31, 2012 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Graphic Design, Illustration, Portfolios, Russia

Russian illustrator and artist Aske Sicksystems synthesizes elements of Soviet era cubism, constructivism and futurism through vector art into semi-sculptural works of art. His latest project is a "Sneaker Head," so to speak: a cross between a Nike Air Force 1 Duckboot and a wolf's head, executed as a painted plywood artwork for the Nike Store Moscow.