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Mihail ChemiakinPost Soviet Non Conformist Russian Cast Paper Sculpture c.1980
c.1980
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Mihail Mikhailovich Chemiakin (or Shemyakin, Russian: Михаил Михайлович Шемякин, born 4 May 1943) is a Russian painter, stage designer, sculptor and publisher, and a controversial representative of the non conformist Post Soviet Avant Garde art tradition of St. Petersburg.
Mikhail Chemiakine was born to a military family. His father became a Soviet Army officer. He received one of the first Orders of the Red Banner at the age of thirteen. Chemiakin's mother was an actress and poet Yulia Nikolaevna Predtechenskaya of Russian noble heritage. She met her future husband in 1941 with the start of the Great Patriotic War and asked him to take her to the front line. She served in cavalry under the command of Lev Dovator and took part in battles alongside her husband.
Mihail Chemiakin spent his early years in East Germany where his father served. His family returned to the Soviet Union in 1957. He studied at the secondary school of art affiliated with the Ilya Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Leningrad, but was expelled from it in 1961 for aesthetic deprivation of classmates and failing to conform to Socialist Realism norms. Between 1959 and 1971 he did all kind of niche jobs and in-between took part in different art projects.
He later got a job at the Hermitage Museum. With his colleagues from the museum Chemiakin organized an exhibition in 1964, after which the director of the museum was fired and all the participants forced to resign. In 1967 he founded the group of artists called St. Petersburg. Together with the philosopher Vladimir Ivanov he created a treatise called Metaphysical Synthesism dedicated to new forms of icon painting based on studying of religious art of all epochs and nations. He was subjected to forced psychiatric treatment and in 1971 he was exiled from the Soviet Union. According to Chemiakin, the KGB officer behind this actually saved him by offering to quietly leave the country with $50 in the pocket, because some people from the Artists' Union of the USSR insisted on his isolation.
He settled in France where he published Apollon-77, an almanac of post-Stalinist art, poetry, and photography. For ten years Mihail Shemyakin lived and worked in Paris – that’s where he attained fame. It was in Paris also where dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov acquainted Shemyakin and Vladimir Vysotsky who later became close friends. During that Paris period, in the 1970s, Shemyakin made a great many recordings of Vysotsky singing in his art studio. The famous Vysotsky’s albums from the collection of Shemyakin are re-released till date. He moved to New York in 1981. Since the early 1990s he started visiting Russia once again, working on street shows by Slava Polunin, ballets by the Mariinsky Theatre, a TV series by Russia-K and other government-backed projects. In 2007 he returned to France where he currently resides.
Chemiakin works in a broad range of media and subjects, as can be seen in the 2010 two-volume book on his art, Mihail Chemiakin (Azbooka publishers, St. Petersburg).
In 2001, commissioned by the City of Moscow, Chemiakin created a monument "Children Are the Victims of Adult Vices", a group of sculptures in a park 2000 feet south of the Kremlin, behind the British Ambassador's residence. Other sculptures by Chemiakin include Peter the Great in St. Petersburg's Peter and Paul Fortress, Peter the Great in London, Monument to Victims of Terrorism in Vladikavkaz (North Ossetia), Vladimir Vysotsky in Samara, Russia.
Since roughly 2001, he has been working as artistic designer on the upcoming Russian animated feature film Hoffmaniada. In 2001 he directed and designed an entirely new production of The Nutcracker for the Mariinsky Theater, where he also created a second ballet based on the same tale by Hoffman, "The Magic Nut". In 2010 the artist created a new production of "Coppelia" for the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theater.
Chemiakins work is in the permanent collections of numerous museums, including the Metropolitan Museum (New York), the State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), the State Russian Museum (St. Petersburg), the Sao Paolo Museum of Art (Brazil), the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris, Yad Vashem and the Tel Aviv Museum of Modern Art.
The artist has been awarded numerous prices such as Chevalier des Arts et Lettres (France 1994) and State Prize of the Russian Federation (Russia, 1993) He is Doctor Honoris Causa of University of San Francisco, USA Academie Europeene des Arts, France Russian State University of the Humanities, Moscow
Mihail Chemiakin lives and works in Russia the USA and France.
- Creator:Mihail Chemiakin (1943, Russian)
- Creation Year:c.1980
- Dimensions:Height: 28 in (71.12 cm)Width: 20 in (50.8 cm)
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- Condition:the piece is in excellent condition. the frame has wear and needs replacement. it will be shipped in frame with plexi to protect it.
- Gallery Location:Surfside, FL
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU38212522392
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