konstantin selikhanov (byelorussia)

1. tell us about your everyday environment,
your hobbies and lifestyle

2. what do you see as the point of your works?

3. tell us your thoughts on the problems printmaking is facing today ? what might they be and where's the solution?

4. do you use computers in your work,
and if so, how do they help you and what do you think of them?

5. what do you think are the best and worst sides of print art?

6. what does printmaking give and mean to you?

7. where did you get the idea from to take part
in the tallinn print triennial?

8. your favourite artists?

1. my everyday life consists of fear for my family, routine in the studio with flashes of inspiration, memories. my hobbies are music, association with women, good and not very good movies. my motto is "one step back-two steps forward."

2. the precise answer - i don't know. the approximate answer - i hope the spectators will look and recall something important...

3. i work with a remarkable print master, therefore i don't have any problems in printmaking. it's just that we can't buy good printmaking paper in minsk.

4. i don't use computers in my work. the feeling idea-hand-picture is very important for me.

5. positive aspects - the possibility of edition, mystery of technical result, accessibility and democracy of this kind of art. the worst aspects are the reliance on technique and time, and mystery of technical result and edition.

6. intellectual growth, cleanness of style, feeling of completion and physical joy.

7. i like estonia and the praiseworthy activity of estonian artists. but i got the idea to participate when i made the acquaintance of inga heamägi.

8. isamu noguchi, richard serra, tsi bay-shi, giotto,
pier alessinsky...