Alexander Varganov – Holy Agave

About the author:Born in 1983 in Minsk, Belarus. He moved with his family to Russia, to St. Petersburg, where he enrolled in a prestigious art school, and in 2001, he started studying communication design at the Academy of Arts and Industry in St. Petersburg – SPGHPA. He graduated in 2006 and earned a master’s degree in graphic design. In 2011, he moved to Moscow where he joined the art scene and became a member of the international association “The Art of the Peoples of the World” NIKOR and the association “Arts of the folks world,” both under the auspices of the Moscow State Museum of Modern Art. Besides painting, he works in video and graphic design as well as artistic marketing. He participates in juried invitational exhibitions in China, Portugal, Italy, and Russia. He is a two-time recipient of the Art Week Moscow awards. During his studies, he acquired valuable knowledge of art history and experimented with various visual media – oil painting, graphics, sculpture. His painting from the beginning has been characterized by a surrealistic approach with elements of the strangely comic and ironic.