Name Vladimir Kartashov Role Artist | Siblings Alexander Kartashov Production designed The Castle | |
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Died September 20, 2002, Mount Kazbek, Georgia Awards Nika Award for Best Production Designer Similar People Sergey Selyanov, Aleksei Balabanov, Aleksandr Rogozhkin, Franz Kafka, Douglas Freshfield | ||
Vladimir Yurievich Kartashov (Russian: Владимир Юрьевич Карташов; 20 June 1957 – 20 September 2002) was a Russian artist and award-winning production designer. He was a twin brother of poet and artist Alexander Kartashov.
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Biography
Vladimir Kartashov was born on June 20, 1957 in Ivanovo, where his parents worked. In 1979 he graduated from the Tula Pedagogical Institute, Faculty of Chemistry and Biology. He worked as a school teacher, scenic designer in theatre. Until 1988 he lived in Tula, then moved to Leningrad.
He died September 20, 2002, with film crew of film Messenger (director Sergei Bodrov, Jr.) in the collapse of the glacier "Kolka" in Karmadon Gorge of North Ossetia. Officially, he is considered missing.
Creative work
In Tula, Kartashov supervised a group of artists called August. After moving to Leningrad, he became a member of the group Ostrov (literally the island). He had several personal and joint exhibitions with Alexander Kartashov in Tula, Moscow, St. Petersburg. His paintings are in private collections in Russia, Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan, and the United States.
Since 1992, Kartashov began working at Lenfilm after an invitation by Sergei Selyanov, then joined Selyanov's STW film company. He started work on a production of Fragments of Seraphim's Life (director Nikolai Makarov), which was never completed. His first job in film was Aleksei Balabanov's Zamok, an adaptation of Franz Kafka's The Castle. Kartashov won Nika Award for this work. Later, he once again collaborated with Balabanov on a set of cult movie Brat, and also worked with several arthouse and mainstream directors.