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Mikhail Koryakin

Mikhail Koryakin was born in 1963 in Leningrad (in Saint-Petersburg). In 1984 he graduated from Choral Conducting Faculty at the Saint-Petersburg Academy of Arts and Culture.

Artist, member of the Saint-Petersburg Union of Artists (painting section).

He is also well known among wide audience as a writer (author of novels “Study of grandfather Ivan”, “Run from the stars or the star idiot”, “System of perversions”, “Code of God that does not exist”, “Six days before rebirth”, “Amedeo”) and as a producer (author and director of some tv-shows, such as “Bluff club” and “Secrets and mysteries of mankind”, director of Saint-Petersburg Club for the Lightheaded and Quick-witted.

“Picturesque paintings by Koryakin take part in Saint-Petersburg exhibitions since 1998. Those paintings strike eye by active color, organized centric compositions, facture vivacity and symbolic content. All components created impression of  energy splash, but it appeared, that he was concentrated on it’s direction… Perhaps, his intimate knowledge of classic music affected artist’s approach to painting, where color rhythm accord stands on the first place in relation to story.” (N. Blagodatov, “MikhailKoryakin’sthirdeye”).

Arcadiy Shaligin, fine art expert, defines artist’s style as “Symbolic or lyric, or philosophic abstractionism…”).

There is no any calm point in his paintings, everything is displayed in its collaboration and continuous development. At the same time, figuration, while transforming, becomes symbolic. Facture becomes more important and helps the artist to create even a compositional space of a painting. Line, assuch, almostdisappears. Energyincreases. (A. Shaligin “Famous and outstanding artists of Saint-Petersburg in contemporary art” Saint-Petersburg, 2011).

Sergey Levandovskiy, senior research associate of the State Russian Museum, notes musicality of Mikhail’s paintings: “If realism is able to reflect the beauty of the visible world, for the reflection of high and thin matter we shall need much more conventional approach, which is rather similar to the musical interpretation of reality”. (S. Levandovskiy Annotation to Mikhail Koryakin’s exhibition “Perception of time” Union of Artists, 2010).

It is possible to say that Mikhail Koryakin’s paintings are philosophical reflections of the unseen and the unknown, a different life which is not connected with reality, of time and space, of the universe in its different aspects of existence, of the subjective and the objective ...

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