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Pavel Makov

From the Concentration of the Will at the NAA of UkraineUntitledPaper, graphic, 2021Price on request

Untitled

2010-2017, author's technique, paper
50 x 150 cm
Price on request

Untitled

2010-2017, author's technique, paper130 x 130 cmPrice on request

"Exit 4"

2021, multiple colour intaglio, graphite pencil, colour pencils, colour ink, acrylic, paper42 x 32 cmSold

Illustration

Sea battle I111 x 111 cmPrice on request

  • Read more about the artwork

    One of the few prominent artists in the world who works in the traditional etching technique. Masterfully exploring all the possibilities of graphics, he combines in his works a deep tradition and a modern understanding of time and space - the main themes and the problems of creativity.
    The "magic of graphics" is fascinating - it immerses the viewer in the mysterious world of the smallest images: plants, animals, buildings, plans, schemes, shadows, signs and more. “Sea Battle I” is a part of the “State of Things” project, which is about the relationship between text and the landscape made of allusions to the simplest tic-tac-toe games and sea battles.

Illustration

Sea battle I111 x 111 cmPrice on request

  • Read more about the artwork

    One of the few prominent artists in the world who works in the traditional etching technique. Masterfully exploring all the possibilities of graphics, he combines in his works a deep tradition and a modern understanding of time and space - the main themes and the problems of creativity.
    The "magic of graphics" is fascinating - it immerses the viewer in the mysterious world of the smallest images: plants, animals, buildings, plans, schemes, shadows, signs and more. “Sea Battle I” is a part of the “State of Things” project, which is about the relationship between text and the landscape made of allusions to the simplest tic-tac-toe games and sea battles.

Illustration

Sea battle I
111 x 111 cm
Price on request

  • Read more about the artwork

    One of the few prominent artists in the world who works in the traditional etching technique. Masterfully exploring all the possibilities of graphics, he combines in his works a deep tradition and a modern understanding of time and space - the main themes and the problems of creativity.
    The "magic of graphics" is fascinating - it immerses the viewer in the mysterious world of the smallest images: plants, animals, buildings, plans, schemes, shadows, signs and more. “Sea Battle I” is a part of the “State of Things” project, which is about the relationship between text and the landscape made of allusions to the simplest tic-tac-toe games and sea battles.

Illustration

From the "Utopia" series198 x 123 cmPrice on request

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    The artist's passion for graphics, engraving and etching was connected with the very nature of this art, which correlates the best to his creative personality. "My understanding of the term ‘Utopia’ between 1992 and 2005 differed from its generally accepted interpretation, which is an impossible future. All this time I have perceived utopia as what we already had, as what we have today, and I still feel that we have nothing more real than utopia", said Pavlo Makov.

Illustration

From the "Utopia" series198 x 123 cmPrice on request

  • Read more about the artwork

    The artist's passion for graphics, engraving and etching was connected with the very nature of this art, which correlates the best to his creative personality. "My understanding of the term ‘Utopia’ between 1992 and 2005 differed from its generally accepted interpretation, which is an impossible future. All this time I have perceived utopia as what we already had, as what we have today, and I still feel that we have nothing more real than utopia", said Pavlo Makov.

Illustration

From the "Utopia" series198 x 123 cmPrice on request

  • Read more about the artwork

    The artist's passion for graphics, engraving and etching was connected with the very nature of this art, which correlates the best to his creative personality. "My understanding of the term ‘Utopia’ between 1992 and 2005 differed from its generally accepted interpretation, which is an impossible future. All this time I have perceived utopia as what we already had, as what we have today, and I still feel that we have nothing more real than utopia", said Pavlo Makov.

Pavlo Makov

About the artist

Pavel Makov is a Ukrainian artist, a member of the Royal Society of British Artists, and a Laureate of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine (2018). In 2022, Pavlo Makov took part in the opening of the Ukrainian pavilion at the Venice Biennale, where he presented the installation "Fountain of Exhaustion". He was born on August 28, 1958, in Leningrad in a family of doctors. He studied at an art school for three years. Until the eighth grade he was mainly interested in biology and literature. In 1974, he entered the Crimean Art School named after MS Samokish in Simferopol, which he graduated in 1979. From 1977 to 1978 he studied at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, and from 1979 – at the Faculty of Graphics at the Kharkiv Art and Industrial Institute, which he graduated in 1984. As a child, Makov studied at a school with in-depth study of English and later worked with a teacher to whom he wrote letters from the army in English. For some time he worked as a master printer and taught. In 1988, the Sumy State Art Museum acquired three works by Makov. In the same year, Makov became a member of the Union of Artists of Ukraine, and the following year won the Grand Prix at the All-Union Biennial of Easel Graphics in Kaliningrad. In 1991, four works by Makov were purchased by the Tretyakov Gallery. Since 1994, Makov has been a member of the Royal Society of Painters and Graphic Artists of Great Britain, where he taught at the Royal College of Art in the early 1990s. 

  • List of the exhibitions

    Personal exhibitions:
    “Mappa Mundi”, The Korsaks’ Museum of the Contemporary Ukrainian Art (Lutsk)
    “Forlorn”, The Naked Room gallery (Kyiv)
    Exhibition “A Swallow and a Ficus”, Ya Gallery (Lviv, Ukraine)
    Exhibition “A Swallow and a Ficus”, Ya Gallery (Kyiv)
    “Notebook with a Missing page”, Come In Gallery (Kharkiv, Ukraine)
    "Paradiso Perduto", Municipal Gallery (Kharkiv, Ukraine)
    “Notebook with a Missing page”, International charity foundation IZOLYATSIA. Platform for cultural initiatives (Kyiv)
    “Fountain”, Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum (Lviv, Ukraine)
    “Plans 2017”, Dukat Gallery (Kyiv)

    Selected group exhibitions and symposiums:
    “Remember Yesterday”, PinchukArtCentre (Kyiv)
    ON PAPER IV, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Calasetta, Casa Falconieri (Calasetta, Sardegna, Italy)
    “Anticipation,” II Biennale of Young Art, parallel program, Botanical garden (Kharkiv, Ukraine)
    Danube Dialogues 2019, Viminacium Archaeological Park (Stari Kostolac, Serbia)
    "The path of Aeneas", YermilovCentre (Kharkiv, Ukraine)
    “Libro d'Artista”, Cartavetra gallery (Firenze, Italy)
    “Diary”, Research library of Ivan Franko National University (Lviv, Ukraine)
    “City of KhA”, National Art Museum of Ukraine (Kyiv)