Discover the contemporary work of Владимир Шир
Passionate artist - self-taught, independently honing expressiveness and unique skill. Born in June 1984 in the Soviet Union.
Having read forbidden scientific literature from an early age, he was not interested in studying in regular schools, and, changing one after another, he eventually ended up in the International Gymnasium of the Red Cross Society, in a small group for gifted children. By the way, despite his high academic achievements, he was expelled from the gymnasium for frequent fights and generally unsocial behavior. While studying at the gymnasium, the boy simultaneously entered the medical institute as an external student, and during his school years he completed two full courses together with adult students, spending nights on practice in morgues and anatomical museums.
At a young age, he dropped out of art school three times due to restlessness, and then dropped out of veterinary college and the biochemical and medical faculties of two universities due to lack of time when combining studies in several places and hard night work. Nevertheless, he graduated with honors from college and several other universities at the same time and defended himself as a psychologist, economist, lawyer and mechanical engineer. From a professor and author of serious works to a media public figure from newspapers and television, from a poet and writer to a recognized expert on mysticism, the passion to create new art objects has always been in his heart and led him through life. For several years, combining unpaid work as a psychoanalyst, creating a 24-hour hotline and helping women and children - victims of violent crimes, he simultaneously developed and created art in the direction of jewelry craftsmanship, sculpture from stone, bone, metal, imbuing himself with experience in this field.
Having left Russia due to persecution and living in France, since 2020, after many years, he again took up the brush.
With each new painting created, creating days and nights, he creates new works, using an intuitive selection of colors. After close encounters with High Matters, after encounters with God, his sister and his children, after touches of Death and travels to other dimensions, his eyes now stopped seeing colors and shapes as they had seen them before. Depth appeared and the perception of feelings increased, a sound accompaniment of each color appeared. Listening and remembering the symphonies of life from other dimensions, he brings this into his Art, singing and synchronizing with the Eternal in the process of this sacred action.
Art, where Color is a Sound, and Sound is the Threads of Destiny woven from Light...
Art, where Color is a Sound, and Sound is the Threads of Destiny woven from Light...
