Vladimir Yakovlev

Vladimir Yakovlev 1934 - 1998 "Paintings by Vladimir Yakovlev are similar to a night sky filled with stars. There is no light in the night; the light is the stars. This is especially visible, when Yakovlev portrays flowers. His flowers are always stars. This is where some kind of painful happiness comes when we think about his paintings." Ilya Kabakov "Art is a means of overcoming death". Vladimir Igorevich Yakovlev was a Moscow artist who in life acquired the reputation of a 'Soviet fool', a 'mad genius', an undoubtedly talented and original artist. The grandson of the famous landscape painter, Mikhail Yakovlev, one of the founders of Russian impressionism, he created an unforgettable figurative language in which the link between the human and reality is refracted in a special and vulnerable 'Russian' angle of classic avant-garde strategies of the 20th century.