Pavel Brat
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Pavel Brat

Russian Federation • 1987

Biography

Born in Voronezh, in 2010 Brat moved to St. Petersburg, where he lives and works in the space of the studio "Kitchen" (Kuhnya) by Babinski. Pavel Brat is a graduate of the educational program Pro Arte Foundation for Culture and Arts in St. Petersburg. He was nominated for the Sergey Kuryokhin Modern Art Award 2013 in the category "Best Work of Visual Art".

Pavel Brat's favourite source materials are the pages of magazines. “Glossy magazines became the source of material because they are so colorful. I think that illustrations in magazines have many hues that just need to be cut out, sorted and organised into a colour palette – the colors are just so intense!” Brat reworks his material by cutting the paper with an angle grinder and then further processing them into extensive collages.
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