BIOGRAPHY
AYDIN KALANTAROV lived in Azerbaijan until he settled down in California where he studied art at the Bruchion School of Art specializing in the old master's technique of painting. Born in Azerbaijan, educated in Baku and having lived in the U.S. for the past 2 decades, he has been greatly influenced by these three very different cultures. His body of work deals with the concept of challenging what painting is and how the viewer perceive it. Negotiating the unstable terrain between abstraction and representative, his aim is to creat something modern and new, yet incorporate the...more
