tolleck winner

Tolleck Winner ARBS was born in the former USSR in 1959. He has lived and worked in the United Kingdom sincce 1980. Dedicated to producing art as full time occupation, his work is kept in private and public collections in the UK and througout the world. Tolleck`s art stems from his early fascintation with the basic nature of raw materials. His work aims to extract values from the basic elements of nature, largely working with metals, minerals and rocks. Experimenting with various materials he has mastered a unique technique based on proper engineering studies. Tolleck Winner has been involved in many solo and group exhibitions in the UK and overseas. His latest solo show; “Beyond the Big Bang” and Vanitas” held at the Alon Zakaim Fine Art, London in October 2006 and 2007 stengthened his position as a well recognized and established comtemporary artist. A number of his larger scale works also feature in public displays in the UK, such as the largesteel sculpture, “People”, which stands alongside the works of Anthony Gormely and Sir Anthony Caro in the Peterborough Sculpture Park. By injecting fragements of gaudy imagery, Tollecks work reveals a subtle flirtation with the current popular culture. Encapsulating frimolous objects with acrylic creations, the work exposes the existential fears which everyone hides beneath the trivial concverns of daily life. There is an underlined focus on the passage of time through generation to generation that once again reminds us of the briefness and inconsequentiality of human life. Nurturing a sensation of loss, collectively the work evokes an atmosphere of reflection and laments the breakdown of our links with the past. Tollecks sculptures of mixed media, metal and acrylic, explore a contemporary reaction to the theme. Whiles images such as “Skull” have become popular icons of fashion, repeated in such a way that they no longer maintain associations with mortality, the artist seeks to reunite these symbols with their traditional meaning in order to remind us of the vulnerability of human existence.