Apr 24, 2007 12:00 PM

Deviant Artist of the Day: Yuri Shpakovsky

Today’s Deviant Artist is Russian born skeletal artist Yuri Shpakovsky, whoproduces beautiful prints of irradiated, fleshless bones, set in almost neon relief against a black, death-filled background. The disjointedness of this Babelfish translation seems curiously appropriate: The mysterious X-rays, which penetrate into the depth of things, which luminesce their essence, revealing secrets, are more than […]

Today's Deviant Artist is Russian born skeletal artist Yuri Shpakovsky, whoproduces beautiful prints of irradiated, fleshless bones, set in almost neon relief against a black, death-filled background.

The disjointedness of this Babelfish translation seems curiously appropriate:

The mysterious X-rays, which penetrate into the depth of things, which luminesce their essence, revealing secrets, are more than 100 years ago opened by Roentgen, they became my artistic method.

Another excellent source for death metal album covers, I think.

Yuri Shpakovsky [Artist's Site] (via Neatorama)

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