Slava Tishin (born in 1979) – Artist, engineer, and collector.

Slava Tishin is an artist whose practice lies at the intersection of engineering precision and metaphysical thought. He graduated from an art school and later from the Samara State Aerospace University, where he studied mathematics and image processing.

Tishin’s artistic language is informed by the legacies of Grositsky, Tabenkin, Krasnopevtsev, Weisberg, and Morandi — yet he translates their principles into a new three-dimensional digital realm, treating volume not as material, but as a conceptual space.

Themes and Imagery
His works explore both philosophical and deeply personal subjects: childhood memories, metaphysics, the sense of the divine, and inner “knots” that exist only in the mind. His visual vocabulary features familiar, almost domestic forms — teddy bears, musical instruments, mushrooms, amphorae, and keys — all imbued with layered meaning.

Inversion Sculpture: Volume Created from Emptiness
Slava Tishin is the author of a unique artistic technique called inversion sculpture — a spatial art form where volume is created not from mass, but from absence. Unlike traditional sculpture carved or molded from matter, his forms emerge from transparent voids, shaped by layers of light and precise mathematical calculation.

Each object is based on a digital 3D model, which is then split into dozens of CNC-cut polycarbonate layers. These are assembled at set intervals on a metal frame and illuminated from within. Light activates the space, revealing a volume that physically doesn’t exist — the viewer’s eye reconstructs the form in the mind.

Advantages of the Inversion Technique:

• Makes it possible to depict intangible subjects like light, smoke, clouds, or transparency.
• Shows levitation, falling, or collapse without physical support.
• Reveals motion through phase-like layering.
• Allows nested structures and spatial intersections.
• Enhances depth perception: foreground is crisp, background dissolves.
• Transmits surreal forms impossible in solid sculpture.
• Integrates time: dust naturally settling on layers adds glow and haze.
• Each piece is both a sculpture and a luminous object.