Armenian-Jewish Artist Anton Merkurov, a great-grandson of famous soviet sculptor Sergey Merkurov was born and grew up in Soviet and 90’s Moscow, and later between London and Moscow. Being a gifted and talented creative person and a part of artistic community he had all the opportunities to become an artist since his childhood, but in the beginning of his career Merkurov decided to work with new technologies and became an Internet expert, and after 20 years experience had a great success in this field, being one of the most demanded consultant and expert in Russia.
At the same time during all his life Merkurov works with family heritage, developing Sergey Merkurov’s Museum at Gyumri, Armenia, published a book with letters and memoirs, organising exhibitions and NFT drop with Lenin’s mask made by Sergey Merkurov, and continuing do paintings, short narratives and later NFT drops.
Merkurov’s life credo is «Love is the life and key to everything. Love is necessary. And Love is the thing is never enough» and that’s why Merkurov decided to transfer this statement as his main statement as an artist.
In 2015, at the age of 33, Merkurov began to create a series of artworks entitled “Heart and Angel,” drawing simple hearts in the naive art technique. After seven years, Merkurov has strengthened his artistic statement and came forward as an artist with his own unique technique, telling the world that love and humanity are the most important things in the world.
Love is necessary. Love is never enough. Love is a key for all. I want to multiply love as a social profit to provide tangible benefits around the world.
Everything starts with a symbol, and a heart is the symbol of love, which everyone understands, regardless of any social burden. It is something universal that can unite us.
Second, I’ll try to do it on my own. Every piece is unique by type, size, medium, or material. There are no borders, both offline and online.
I have spent more than 20 years in media and communication, conducting research, running new media, generating ideas, and promoting new technology.
But why do you need this if you don’t have love?
Everything starts with a symbol, and a heart is the symbol of love, which everyone understands, regardless of any social burden. It is something universal that can unite us.
Second, I’ll try to do it on my own. Every piece is unique by type, size, medium, or material. There are no borders, both offline and online.
I have spent more than 20 years in media and communication, conducting research, running new media, generating ideas, and promoting new technology.
But why do you need this if you don’t have love?
I want to put all my experience, starting in the late 90s in Moscow when I was a co-founder of a few IT companies, because the Internet was just starting to spread across the world. I worked as a photographer and witnessed the end of film cameras and the transition to digital. I have worked in and with corporations, given lectures at different institutes, and tried to change some laws. Today, I still work with communications, now decentralised, and also have a great opportunity to become an artist.