"Everyone considers him to be (mainstream) due to the fact that he became a kind of street art icon."Īside from his exhibitions, Kondratiuk's art has also been used by music artists as covers for their albums and singles. "I really like Banksy, he's not really (mainstream)," he explained. The Tate Modern in London is his favourite museum, and Kondratiuk cites the famously-secretive Banksy as one of his art inspirations. "Then I found modern art, and I started to like it more than classical art." "They took me to museums, classical art at first," he said. Speaking to Channel One a few weeks after his nationals performance, he explained that his parents instilled the love of art in him. Especially a well-positioned layback with visible connection to the music. doesnt matter what he says his program is going to be given his history by the time we get to Worlds well be seeing Chopin and Seimei again. Evgenia Medvedeva retires, discusses permanent back damage. FS Music: 'Danse Macabre' and 'Organ Symphony' by Camille Saint. His work has been exhibited at shows, and last summer the skater ran his own solo exhibition in the Russian capital. Evgenia Medvedeva (RUS) SP: 'Masquerade' by Aram Khachaturian. He's big into art, running his own project called Ninety Ninth, which is also the name of his Instagram account. The routine was worth 102.71 points in technical elements alone for a total of 196.23.įor all his on-ice exploits in the past two months, Kondratiuk is very different off-ice. "I have not yet fully understood ," he said, "but I saw that I scored more than (Mikhail) Kolyada." Kondratiuk also has another quad in his repertoire, the loop, which he did not perform in Moscow.Ĭoaches Sokolovskaia and Gurylev hugged each other rink-side in sheer amazement at his performance, and the youngster later admitted he was having trouble processing what he had accomplished. He followed that with an even nicer quad Salchow and a triple flip, before adding two combinations (triple Axel, Euler, triple Salchow and triple Lutz, triple toe) as well as a triple Lutz in the second half of his program. It was an extraordinary routine, a well-choreographed skate that opened with an on-point quad toe followed by a quad Salchow, double toe combination.
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Then in Sunday's free skate, he put together the skate of his life, later admitting that it was perhaps the best performance of his career "both in terms of the set of elements and in terms of points." Kondratiuk is coached by Svetlana Sokolovskaia and Ilya Gurylev, who also train the former European silver medallist Alexander Samarin.īut surely neither Kondratiuk nor his coaches will have expected the whirlwind of what happened at the Channel One Cup.įirst, in the short program on Saturday (6 February), he landed two quadruple jumps – a toe loop and a Salchow – to out-score European champion Dmitri Aliev.