Maxim
Korolkov

Max was born on May 25 in 1990 in the Urals. He graduated from Imperial fine arts academy in Saint-Petersburg in 2018. His works were presented at many festivals, exhibitions and contests and highly praised by many art critics including 1st prize of Takeda. Art. Help. Currently Max lives and works in St Petersburg.

"I believe that’s an absurd situation for an artist to use words for explaining his art. The painting itself is an imaginary world which gets to a random witness or doesn’t (well it’s the fault of the painting or a viewer). And if that happens - this connection - imaginary world becomes real. But if a viewer has been told about artists work on particular painting, what meaning the painter has put in it - well the painting is no longer the same, without nuances which only he, the viewer, can see in the first place - it ruins his imagination. Only the painting matters nothing else.

Many great art creations -music, paintings, books - are still very much alive when it’s authors are long dead and they can’t be asked about their work anymore.

But when you’re into those works of art - those are just unique and feed your imagination . Everyone’s got their intuition in that way or another and the question is: is it awake or not, everyone should ask himself if he wants it to be awaken or to keep it sleeping. For me for instance the most difficult thing is to get music rationally cause it’s pure emotion. To transfer music into words? Well no, you should just listen to it. The same imho goes with painting. If you try to explain it, to transfer paintings into words - it may just turn out to be some kind of disappointment. Instead of putting your senses into words just listen to your inner self and the explanation is there. We understand much more than we think we do."