Color Matrix

The Color Matrix project grew out of the artist's participation in the Real Venice exhibition at the 2011 Venice Biennale. Parshchikov presented his own version of contemporary Venice, one of the world's premier venues for art exhibitions, but also a city of millions of visual clichés. In his "unreal Venice," the central object of his exploration is the palette of the city and its islands—primarily Burano, where color reaches its peak intensity. Balancing on the edge of magical realism and metaphysics, Parshchikov creates color matrices from fragments of everyday life, reminiscent of abstract compositions, stained glass, or mosaics.

Tim Parshchikov (1983, Moscow) graduated from the cinematography department of VGIK (2007) and the Higher Courses for Scriptwriters and Directors (2008). His work has been featured in international exhibitions and biennales, including Photoquai in Paris (2007), the Venice Biennale (2011), the Thessaloniki Photobiennale (2014), the 5th Moscow Biennale for Young Art (2016), and the Daegu Photobiennale (2018). Solo exhibitions have been held in Rome, Madrid, Paris, Cologne, St. Petersburg, and Moscow. In 2014, Parshchikov was awarded the Kandinsky Prize in the "Young Artist. Project of the Year" category, and in 2021 he became a laureate of the Moscow Art Prize. His works are included in museum and private collections, including the State Tretyakov Gallery, the Multimedia Art Museum, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (Paris), the Mead Art Museum (Amherst, USA), and the Museo de Bellas Artes (Bilbao). He has frequently participated in fairs such as Frieze, Art Basel, ARCO, the Chengdu Biennale, and Paris Photo.

Tim Parshchikov is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily with photography. His experience as a cinematographer—Parshchikov graduated from the cinematography department at VGIK—defines his visual language: attention to light, rhythm, and spatial organization. The cinematic nature of his artistic method benefits from documentary observation and structured mise-en-scènes.