Valery Koroshilov is renowned for paintings distinguished by a bright palette, reserved imagery and flat areas of strong colour. His style originates from hyper-scale realism with a strong contemporary feel. Explaining his approach, the artist says, - I believe the context of a painting only matters if it’s inspired by the poetic intuition, and therefore, it is addressed to the poetic perception. The ideas and concepts, as they apply to art, never really interest me.
The first critical acclaim came with a body of work known as ‘Architectural Impressions’, ILC Honourable Award New York (1992). Since then the artist participated in more than 100 exhibitions worldwide. Recent solo shows include Standard Chartered Bank, London (2009) and Baker Tilly, London (2010).
Based in London and exhibiting internationally, Valery works primarily in figurative oil painting, and focuses on corporate and private commissions. His recent projects include P&O Cruises, where the designers of the UK’s biggest luxury superliner Ventura commissioned him 36 paintings and murals. Dame Helen Mirren officially opened it in 2008.
In recent studio work Valery Koroshilov focuses on the complex and intriguing relationship between realism and abstraction in contemporary painting. Realistically painted human figure or objects set in a semi-abstract background is the artist’s attempt to investigate the qualities of both representations as they apply to form, colour and pictorial space, and the conditions when their co-existence is complimentary and mutually beneficial. These pictures earned the artist a reputation of a Contemporary Master (“Art In London” Magazine, 2008).
Valery Koroshilov: “The storytelling aspect of these pictures is less important for me, than their formal qualities, such as colour, texture and structure of the pictorial space. The narration, which is at the heart of the traditional figurative approach, concerns me only as a hint of an attitude to the human condition."
Valery Koroshilov
Studio: Archway, North London
Visits: by appointment
London
United Kingdom
Europe
