Dmitri Plavinsky was born in Moscow in 1937. He studied at the Institute of Art of the 1905 Revolution. In 1957 he took part in the exhibition at the Sixth World Festival of Youth and Students. There he discovered the images of collective memory of various cultures and recognized the rich technological possibilities of modern art.
The «archaeology» of culture and its canonical structures became the subject of his art. He depicts multilayered surfaces, complex textures, and palimpsest compositions, emphasizing the verticality of our history, its mystery and ambiguity. Merging text and visual images, Plavinsky asserts the existence of bond between visual perception and intellectual experience.
More recently Plavinsky has become fascinated with music and perceives it as the manifestation of world harmony. He incorporates musical notation as an element of collage, as traces of forgotten texts yet to be decoded.
Plavinsky has participated in more than a hundred exhibitions of Russian post-Stalinist art. His work is located in museums and private collections in Europe and the United States. The artist lives and works in New York.
