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"Extracts from newspapers"
February 2004. |
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Tishkov creates gleefully, unceasingly. Not just print,drawings,paintings,sculpture,videos and plays, but whole worlds with their own complex stories.
Kate Dobbs Ariail, The Independent
Tishkov is a moralist who seeks to teach through art instead of religion. But unlike, say, the work of filmmaker Andrey Tarkowsky, which embodies the very essence of High Seriousness, Tishkov's has wistfulness and low comedy, both effective in disguising instent and getting around authorities.
Alan G.Artner, Chicago Tribune
Tishkov's surreal humor takes the adge off the melodrama. Like his here, macabre cartoonist Charles Addams, Tishkov has created his own breed of mostly harmless - but underiably weird - monsters.
Jessica Dawson, Washington Post
In Tishkov's conception folklore is source of subconcious comprehension, just as mythology was for Parisia surrealists.The wit Tishkov draws from this wellspring is closer to contemporary Russian conceptualist art, the grim irony of underground artists in the late Soviet era.
Chuck Twardy, The News & Observer
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