Valery Koroshilov

'My paintings are about my admiration of beauty, joy, happiness and hope. They develop one’s poetic and mystical ambitions. It is aesthetic experience, pleasing the mind and engaging the imagination.

Though titled 'The Studios of X, Y and Z,' (the great Masters of the Italian Renaissance) these paintings show the objects of my own studio, and a detail from a masterpiece. The items hung on strings represent an aspect of the method I believe these masters used to compose their paintings. For instance, the objects could have been borrowed, replaced, added later, or simply imagined. I suppose, such an approach produces a particularly cheeky form of Homage.

There are some images which might appear, intentionally, not very serious at times, but they are, nevertheless, my genuine declaration of admiration to the great painters of the past.

There is a certain degree of symbolism in every picture as well, but I would prefer to talk about it when people see the paintings in the flesh. You have to see it. They are quite big in size and surprisingly large-scaled too.’

 

Studying Ghirlandaio Oil on Canvas 100 x 120 cm Enlarge	Tango Argentino Oil on Canvas 100 x 120 cm Enlarge	Studying Leonardo Oil on Canvas 100 x 120 cm Enlarge
Lemons Oil on Canvas 100 x 100 cm Enlarge	Black, White, Yellow and Blue Oil on Canvas 100 x 100 cm Enlarge	Apples Oil on Canvas 100 x 100 cm Enlarge