INTERVIEW WITH MICHAEL MATVEEV (K’ARTLI)

OCA Magazine: Tell us, please, about yourself and your creative activity / work
Michael Matveev: I am Mikhail Matveev aka Kartli, born on September 11, 1947, in the picturesque, lake-filled southern Urals, in the town of Chebarkul, Chelyabinsk region, in a country that almost no longer exists: the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics – USSR.

My family lineage likely dates back to Byzantine roots, reaching as far back as 1010. I chose the pseudonym “Kartli” after the name of my ancestors, who ruled the Kingdom of Kartli in what is now eastern Georgia.

Currently, I hold the academic title of professor and am a member of several professional organisations, including:
The Union of Architects of Russia (USSR) since 1984
The Commission on Professional Ethics of the Ural Branch of the Union of Architects of Russia
Deputy Chair of the International Federation of Artists
Chair of the Executive Committee of the N-F Expert Council of the Eurasian Creative Guild (ECG, London)
Member of the International Association “Union of Designers.”
I serve as a professor in the Department of Architectural Design at Ural State University of Architecture and Arts, named after N. S. Alfyorov, who was my mentor and thesis advisor at the institute.

OCA: How did you choose your path and who is your role model in the creative space or life?
MM: When I was 3 years old, I was given ply asticine for my birthday. Since then, the process of artistic creativity has not stopped to this day. An example, or rather, an object of inspiration is the entire world in all its perceived manifestations.

Imitation for me is slavery! I am a supporter of F. Shalyapin’s formula: “An artist is one who creates the unprecedented…”. I consider the NATURE OF THE ORGANISM OF THE UNIVERSE to be my teacher.

OCA: What is your main achievement in 2023-2024?
MM: Winning the international competition on the topic: “Socio-philosophical and architectural-urban planning concept of cities of the future”. The idea of a progressive system of human settlement on the planet has been actively formed in my professional work since the end of the last century (since 1968) and the beginning of the new millennium.

The technological impetus was the advent of the Internet! The global transformation of the means of human communication and information has radically changed the way of life of bipedal creatures on Earth. The goal of implementing my concept: to cure and protect the planet’s organism from the spread of parasitic “lichens” (mold) – cities. The existing urban planning is spreading like an avalanche with harmful scabs that reduce the duration of biological life. The scale of modern construction of pompous shelters is growing tendentiously, displacing and destroying the life-giving covers of the Earth’s body.

The essence: People do not realise that the surface of the planet in the future, if they do not come to their senses, will be encased in a dense shell of technocratic construction. Natural covers of natural living components of flora and fauna are replaced pathologically rabidly by artificial asphalt and reinforced concrete…!

The introduction of a new structure for comfortable human settlement frees nature from the threat of death. The architecture of the solution will be shown in the following publications

OCA: What is the main feature that makes you and your art/work unique?
MM: Insight and experience of travelling on our and other planets…

OCA: Tell us, please, about the events or projects of the Eurasian Creative Guild (London) and projects that you have already taken part in and how does ECG influence your creativity and success in your work?
MM: Added participation in ECG – another aspect of hope: to expand and activate my positive influence on the world with the aim of harmonising the relations of the NATURE of planet Earth and its GUEST – BI-LEGGED VANDAL USURPER infected with the “bacilli of civilization” of consumerism. Humanity will have to restore the possession of the laws of hospitality and ensure the effectiveness of their implementation … My participation in the events and projects of the Eurasian Creative Guild (ECG) was activated with the appointment to the position of chairman of the executive committee of the expert council for NF ECG (London).

OCA: What is your motivation and the main aim of your creativity?
MM: The ancient roots of my family (>1000 years BC) are the unshakable foundation of the Genetic program of my animated creative life activity.Goal: to scale the saving straw and free people from the quagmire of the technocratic swamp of a dead-end civilization, to open the eyes of people’s awareness to the rational truth of the expediency of the unity of all that exists in the Universal organism.
OCA: What would you wish for the members of the Guild and other creative people, just starting their career?
MM: Urgent wishes: To comprehend your involvement in the organism of the Universal universe. Every person is its integral part.
To be guided in everything not by reason, which serves as a component of the matrix of consumer society, but by the genuine reactions of your sensory apparatus transformed into real incarnations through the prism of your own instance of the universal spirit.