24 february 2005 - 31 may 2005
Paintings by Vyacheslav Mikhailov

Exhibition of over fifty works by Vyacheslav Mikhailov – a famous painter and acknowledged master from St Petersburg. After studying painting at the Academy of Arts in Leningrad, Mikhailov was a post-graduate student of academician and famous Soviet artist Yevsei Moiseyenko. Member of the Russian Union of Artists (1979) and the ITALART National Association of Italian Artists (1993). Honoured Artist of Russia. Contributed to over two hundred exhibitions in Russia and abroad, including forty-seven one-man shows. Held a one-man show at the Russian Museum (1995) and contributed to a group exhibition at the Hermitage Museum (2004). Represented by works in the Russian Museum, Hermitage Museum, Tretyakov Gallery and private collections in Russia and abroad.

Vyacheslav Mikhailov has developed his own original and unique style of painting. He creates abstractions on architectural themes with skilful colour schemes and balanced compositions. Painted in a fascinating technique, they combine both smooth and rough textures, achieved by the use of chalk priming. A remarkable associative link arises between the abstract forms and their concrete titles – Ponte Vecchio, Schliemann Mansion, At the Potseluev Bridge and Russia House. Vyacheslav Mikhailov’s oeuvre continues and develops the hallowed traditions of Russian abstract painting of the first half of the twentieth century, with which the gallery has worked and continues to work.