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Vladimir Khamkov - Artist
Artist Vladimir Khamkov

Vladimir Khamkov was born on March 24th 1958 in the Vladimir Region. He is one of the brightest artists who, today, continue to enrich the traditions of the so called Vladimir Landscape School.

Being imbued with the most ingenious interpretation of nature, Khamkov’s works combine lyrical contemplation of the Russian classic landscape, moments of visual effects of European impressionism and, in a concealed substratum, elements of the colourful décor of the lacquer miniature workshop. A born colourist, perceiving the world first and foremost in its quality of colours, in the diversity and mobility of shades, the painter also inclines towards perception of a mid-russian landscape from the prospective of its psychological inflation.

The basis of Khamkov’s artistic method is working with nature. The artist’s landscapes communicate the perceptions of certain places at certain times and, above all, their dynamics of light and air. Their reflections of light and shades is achieved not only because of the outstanding vigilance and attentiveness of his observing eye, but also by virtue of exceptional aesthetic aims, which assume thinking in minimal movements of nature’s life and its minimal changes, aspiring to recreate the «differentials» of nature’s order with the touch of a brush. In these paintings you may sometimes find object-image-bearing repetitions, but they never exhibit tautology of the graphic motives, rather the same orientation towards comprehension of inexhaustibility, semantic infinity of details, foreshortenings, tints and half-tints, characteristic of the favourite landscape themes of the artist. In his paintings, Vladimir Khamkov depicted numerous times the edge of a ploughed up field, fringed with sparse wood, but he never repeated the complex moods expressed by such a simple scene at different times. Sometimes these «plein-airs» awaken a memorable Nekrasov’s line:

… To dearly love this meager field forever, And to perceive it to be dear for life.

In the artist’s palette there are colours for which he shows noticeable preference. One of them is lilac. He uses lilac paint to depict what is lilac in nature, but sometimes what is not. In his artistic world lilac becomes a colour reflection of reality and, also, a colourist feature of his idealizing imagination. After that ideal and reality cease to be habitual antipodes, revealing the possibility of a mysterious symbiosis in a united image.

Vladimir Khamkov: Creative Biography

Member of the Artists’ Union of Russia since 1995. From 1989 – participant of regional, zone, all-Russian, international and foreign art exhibitions.

Major Exhibitions

1991. Exhibition of Vladimir painters (Moscow). 1994. Joint exhibition (Seven Nails Gallery, Moscow); Joint exhibition (Vladimir). 1997. Personal exhibition (M. Gorky Regional Universal Scientific Library, Vladimir). 2005. All-Russian exhibition «Revival» (Belgorod). 2007. Exhibition of the Vladimir artists (RAO UES Russia, Moscow). 2008. Personal Anniversary exhibition (M. Gorky Regional Universal Scientific Library, 	Vladimir). 2009. All-Russian exhibition «Russia» (Central House of Artists, Moscow); Exhibition 	of the Vladimir artists (National Art Museum, Minsk, Belarus). 2010. Exhibition «Vladimir Art Salon» (Central House of Artists, Moscow); Exhibition 	«Traditions of the Russian Landscape» dedicated to the 150th anniversary of I.I. Levitan (Central House of Artists, Moscow); Art bazaar «Art Manezh 2010» 	(Moscow). 2011. Joint (together with V. Zakharov) exhibition (Murom); Art bazaar «Art Manezh 	2011» (Moscow). 2012. All-Russian exhibition «Multifaced Russia» dedicated to the 1,150th anniversary 	of Russian statehood (Vladimir). 2013. Personal exhibition (TNK-Art Gallery, Moscow); Exhibition «Union of Russian 	Artists – History Continues» (Moscow). 2014. Joint exhibition (Vyatka); VIII International Festival of Arts (Lisbon, Portugal); 	Regional art exhibition dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the Vladimir Region 	(Vladimir); Art bazaar «ArtExpoSPb» (Saint-Petersburg). 2015. Personal exhibition (Residence of the European Union Delegation to the Russian     Federation, Moscow); Joint exhibition of the Vladimir artists (Central House of Art Workers, Moscow); Joint exhibition of the Vladimir artists «Magic of colour» (Levitan Museum, Plyos); Joint (together with V. Zakharov and V. Kholin) exhibition «Second Wave» (Gallery on Chistye Prudy, Business Center of the RF Chamber of Commerce, Moscow).

Awards

– Diploma of the Artists’ Union of Russia for participation in the All-Russian exhibition «Revival», 2005. – Diploma for participation in the art project «Traditions of the Russian Landscape» and for the professional and spiritual input into creative heritage and development of modern Russian landscape painting, 2010. – Diploma of the Russian Academy of Arts, 2012. – Laureate diploma of the All-Russian art exhibit «Multifaced Russia», 2012. – Fine Arts Prize named after People’s artist of Russia, Vladimir Yukin, 2014. – Certificate for participation in VIII International Festival of Arts (Lisbon, Portugal), 2014. – Silver Medal of the Artists’ Union of Russia «Spirituality, Tradition, Skill» (Moscow), 2015.

Vl. Khamkov’s works are in the following museums and collections:

– Vladimir-Suzdal Art-Architectural Museum-Preserve, Vladimir. – Murom History and Art Museum, Murom. – V.M. and A.M. Vasnetsovs Art Museum, Vyatka. – I. Sorokin Art Museum, Lipetsk. – Education, Science and Art Development Fund, Moscow. – Private collections and art galleries in Russia, Spain, Netherlands, Switzerland, Great Britain, Germany, France, USA.