Wadim Heid

Wadim Heid
Wadim Heid
Date of birth:	July 27, 1976 ; (age: 48)
Place of birth:	Kokschetav, Kazakhstan
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Wadim Heid (born July 27 1976 in Kokschetav, Kazakhstan) is an artist, who focuses on erotic and socially critical paintings.

Life

Wadim writes about his life (February 2010): "At the age of sixteen, me and my parents moved from Kazakhstan to Germany. It was a nice time for me, I did sports, worked and felt invincible, as if the world belongs me alone.

I think that this arrogance later brought me to the drugs. You always think: This won't happen to me. That's how the years of my life passed by. While consuming drugs, I somehow managed to go to work and stay sort of fit through sports. But after over ten years of collapse, I found myself without anything. I was divorced, I had no work and I was mentally finished.

When I decided to search for help, I had my first contact with painting at an art therapy in a hospital. Since then I painted nonstop, already for over three years. Painting has changed my life. Since that time, I never touched drugs again, art is my addiction now. Erotic paintings are my favorite. It is like meditation to me. I touched on a lot of other topics too, but I always returned to erotic painting.

I often had discussions with conservative people who were telling me I should do "serious" art. But I think that nude always belonged to the preferred motif of painting. And actually a person with a healthy sexuality won't see a taboo in an erotic painting.

When I learned how to paint, I used different nude pictures as a template for my paintings. Later I did photographs of models myself to realize my own ideas. For that, I had to deal with photography, which is my second hobby now.

At the moment I specialized mostly on nude and portrait painting. I tried different directions to, but erotic painting stayed my favorite theme. Many paintings of that theme I just paint for myself for slowdown, as balance for my sport (Thai Boxing), where I have to be aggressive."

Erotic works

1.

"Waffen der Frau" (Weapons of a woman) Quote: "I have painted a girlfriend here and combined the two most important themes in my life: sex and violence."

2.

Porträt einer Freundin (Portrait of a girlfriend)

3.

"Fünf vor Zwölf" (Five to twelve). Quote: "As reference to the women, who badly want to be married and can't wait."

4.,5.,6.

3 Motive ohne Namen (Motifs without names). Quote: "They were painting studies. The goal was to paint the photograph as realistic as possible."

7.

"Blauer Engel" (Blue angel). Quote: "Here I tried apart from the hair to reduce the used color of the picture to blue."

8.

"Von der Sonne geküsst" (Kissed by the sun). Quote: "Motif has been painted with high contrast. It seems like the girl is pervaded by the sun."

9., 10. Ohne Namen. (Without names) Painting studies.

11. to 17.

From the series "Andere Dimension" (Other dimension). Quote: "Here I tried to put everything upside down, white becomes black and black becomes white, negative becomes positive and vice versa. They are hidden pictures. Not until they are converted to negatives, they become positives. It's like in life, there is not just one truth."

18.

"Party Party"

19. to 22.

Without names, quote: "...but have the same goal to play with contrasts between black and white. Everything is reduced to two colors. It doesn't always have to be complex, two colors are enough to capture the essence. Lately, I'm fascinated by black and white paintings.

23. to 25.

Without names, quote: "these were paintings for the exposition with a North American Indian theme. As you can see, I even added an erotic touch to this theme, it has been well received by the audience."

26.

Quote: "This is the first painting of the theme "Seven deadly sins" and is dedicated to greediness. I plan to illustrate seven deadly sins with erotic paintings. I'm still working on the remaining six."

27.

"The justice of the moneyed" Quote: "Here I have the injustice between the legal practice of the poor and the rich. I think that Lady Justice is a whore."

28.