about Me

Vasiliy Vorobiev Was born in Alma-Ata (Republic of Kazakhstan) in 1975.
Vasily Vorobiev has been engaged in the art of weaponry since 1994.
Having mastered the techniques of processing wedge steeling, he still preferred the artistic process of author’s involvement of creating weapons to blacksmithing. At the same time, he was engaged in easel painting and sculpture. Experiments with the combination of different types of art brought the author’s work to a special plane beyond the established traditional canons and classifications The artist discovered the path of focusing on the knife, as the main thing in a decorative table composition, on to a full-fledged independent sculpture, where the blade becomes a secondary, but still important semantic object.
In the creative workflow for Vasiliy the most important thing is the experiment: combination of technical treatments, non-standard combinations of materials and household items. He forms his own style in the spirit of modernism, achieving unlike anything else changing effects and images, built on a special surreal sense of plastic change and rhythm. These works are distinguishing by metaphorically complex compositions, bold attempts to materialize the immaterial and allegorical juxtapositions and movements.
Since 2014, member of the creative Union “The Guild of masters-armorers”. In 2016, he joined the creative Union of decorative and applied artists. Now he lives and works in Belgorod (Russia).
His works were exhibited at the IWA international exhibitions in Nuremberg and “Masters of arts” in Paris at the exhibition “Style. Image. Harmony. Master gunsmiths of modern Russia” in the Hermitage, at the Gokhran exhibition “Jewelry craftsmanship. Traditions and modernity”.
The author’s works are located in State Museums and private collections in Russia and abroad.

–Natalia