Stanislav Plutenko
Stanislav Plutenko was born in 1961 in Moscow. He drew and
painted through childhood, but with parents who disapproved
of his being a painter, studied in the turbine construction
department of Moscow Machine Construction Institute. After army
service, where he was appointed painter in the Officers Club
and met many other painters, he became a designer.
He studied at the Academy of the National Economy named after
M.Plekhanov and at the same time took private art lessons from
the art masters of different work style. Since 1981 he worked
as a show-window dresser, continuing to study painting in art
studios. Since 1984 he has participated in exhibitions. In 1988
he worked with «Arbat 48», «Arbat 34»,
and «Mars» galleries. Since 1991 he has been a member
of the Professional Graphic-Artists’ Union. In 1997 he
was rewarded with Grand Prix of the «Golden Brush»
exhibition. His work has been most recently seen in Britain
in a one-man show at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA)
in London, 1996.
TimeOut advertised the exhibition:
