:Dmitry Kustanovich

{{Short description|Belarusian-Russian artist}}

{{Only primary sources |date=May 2024}}

Dmitry Alexandrovich Kustanovich ({{langx|ru|Дми́трий Алекса́ндрович Кустано́вич}}; born March 29, 1970, in Minsk), nickname Kust ({{langx|ru|Куст}}) is a Belarusian-born artist, who currently resides in Saint-Petersburg, Russia.[http://www.dkust.com/about-eng.html Biography] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070806192400/http://www.dkust.com/about-eng.html |date=August 6, 2007 }}[http://www.dkust.com/index-rus.html Official site of Dm. Kustanovich] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071213053240/http://www.dkust.com/index-rus.html |date=December 13, 2007 }} {{in lang|ru}}

Kustanovich graduated from the Belarusian State Pedagogical University in 1996, served in the Soviet Army and worked as a construction worker.[http://arttower.ru/forum/index.php?s=3768ed12ab31cfe926001b7070cf41b7&showtopic=6201&pid=81312&st=0&#entry81312 Dmitry Alexandrovich Kustanovich. Modern Art] {{in lang|ru}}

He developed an original technique based on the wider use of palette knives rather than brushes. He has said:

{{Cquote|I model the space with the palette knife expressing its to-day state, its momentousnesses, its current minute. This is my technique. It is emotional. It has its own philosophy. The world expressed through it is manifolded. It is different.}}

The technique has elements of the impressionism, expressionism, primitive art, conceptual art.

Since 1996 Kustanovich has participated in a number of personal exhibitions in Minsk, Moscow, Germany, France, Lithuania, Netherlands, Portugal.