Mikhail Shemyakin
| Mihail Chemiakin Михаи́л Михайлович Шемя́кин |
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| Born |
Mihail Chemiakin 4 May 1943 Moscow, Russia |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Known for | Sculpture, Stage designer |
| Notable work |
The Children Victims of Adult Vices (2001) Gofmaniada (Soon) |
| Awards |
 Order of Friendship Ordre des Arts et des Lettres State Prize of the Russian FederationPrize of the President of the Russian Federation |
Mihail Mikhailovich Chemiakin (Russian: Михаи́л Михайлович Шемя́кин, Mikhail Shemyakin, or Mikhail Shemiakin, born 4 May 1943, Moscow) is a Russian painter, stage designer, sculptor and publisher, and a controversial representative of the nonconformist art tradition of St. Petersburg.
Chemiakin was born to a military family. His father, a Kabardian from the Caucasus Mountains Mikhail Petrovich Kardanov, had lost his parents and was adopted by a friend of his father's, White Army officer Piotr Chemiakin. The artist's father eventually 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 Il’ya 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.
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