Vladimir Migachev (1959-)

Vladimir Migachev was born in 1959 in a small village within the Oryol region. This remote location allowed him to experience an untainted nature. In the late seventies, the whole Migachev family were forced to relocate to Krasnodar, where Vladimir was enrolled into the art and graphics department of Kuban’ State University. The institution at the time was enjoying an upsurge in popularity in the arts department, due to increased financial funding. Consequently to graduation, Migachev pursued his passion for artistic endeavor though teaching technical drawing as well as standard drawing courses in secondary schools within the area. Furthermore, Migachev was also developing the artistic community in the university locally. Throughout this period of artistic instruction, Migachev was also painting and producing art works in his free time.

According to Migachev personally, abstraction was the first artistic movement that he was captivated by. Migachev consistently explored abstract painting from 1986 till the mid-nineties, whilst simultaneously incorporating modern artistic developments. Migachev was drawn to abstraction due to its enrapturing independence from a physical painting theme, its lack of literary references as well as its ability to impact the viewer by means of figurative subjects, particularly color and composition.

The year 1997 saw Migachev take to painting the interiors of Orthodox churches, which to him was not only a meditative period, but also a highly symbolic ones as well. This work on monumental compositions within the limits of strict religious and institutional canons which are full of symbols and philosophy gave Migachev a strong impetus for reconsidering his form of artistic oeuvre.

In the late nineties, Migachev returned to figurative painting, whilst still accounting for his previous followings. With time, landscape became his favorite genre. Nominally, Migachev paints his surroundings of vast, ploughed fields of Kuban’ with rare islands of poplars, vineyards, steppe farmsteads and railways. Despite a similar subject matter, this does not signify that Migachev was attempting to recreate a neo-impressionistic series of works. Rather, Migachev’s landscapes are a result of the artist’s individual ‘spiritual vision’ that lets him see the essence of what is happening in the world. This essence is austere and disquieting.

Migachev works in a specific style that combines a graphic monochromatic look with brutal textures of coal, soil, concrete and conglomerated objects. The artist brings the basic components of landscape, earth, sky, water and trees to the state of laconic formula and symbols.  

The artwork of Vladimir Migachev is well-known in the Russian art world. He often exhibits in Moscow and has generated a growing interest in his art abroad. His painting reveals the synthesis of the national spiritual culture with the latest trends of the world art.

Selected Solo and Group exhibitions:                                                 

2008    Hudgraph 2008, VOLGA art gallery, New Manege, Moscow.

2008    Simple Numbers, Solo exhibition, VOLGA art gallery, Moscow.

2007   Art Manege, VOLGA art gallery, Manege, Moscow.

2007    Landscape for Anna, Solo exhibition VOLGA art gallery, Moscow.

2007     Hudgraph 2007, VOLGA art gallery, New Manege, Moscow.

2006     Solo exhibition, Art Manege, Moscow.

2005    Group exhibition of artists of the Gallery of Karina Shanshieva.   Central House of Artists , Moscow.

2005      Solo exhibition, Gallery of Karina Shanshieva. Personal exhibition in art hall «New Manege».

2005     Solo exhibition, Gallery of Karina Shanshieva. Prechistenka, 30. Moscow.

2005      Personal exhibition «Negative landscape», National Art Museum of Krasnodar.

2004     Solo exhibition, Gallery of Karina Shanshieva, art market "Best Galleries of Moscow".

2003     Art Manege, Moscow.

2003    Solo exhibition in gallery ‘Klarissa’, Krasnodar.

2003     Region, group exhibition "South of Russia", Krasnodar.

2003      Painting, Solo exhibition, Museum of Krasnodar.

2002      Sthlm Art Fair 2002, Stokholm, Sweden.

2000      11 variants, Central House of Artists , Moscow.

1996      Art Manezh, Moscow.

1995      Pearl of Sea, Central House of Artists , Moscow.                

1994      Artists of Krasnodar, Group exhibition,  Karlsrye, Krasnodar.

1993      Art Mith -3, Moscow.

1992      White dragon, Krasnodar.

1989      Youth of Russia, Group exhibition, Central House of Artists, Moscow.

Migachev’s works can be found in public and private collections in Russia, the Netherlands, Germany as well as the rest of Europe and America.