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VLADIMIR VALEGOV-STOCKHOLM 2017
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Vladimir was born in the city of Khabarovsk, on December 19, Vladimir learned computer painting. He painted posters, covers 1957. When he was two years old, his mother abandoned his for vinyl and CD albums, worked with advertising agencies for father, took her son and moved to Sverdlovsk (formerly, Yeka- periodicals and street posters advertising. Throughout all that terinburg). From then on, the family had often relocated from time, he never ceased to paint. The confused and hectic years of one place to another. The mother wanted Vladimir to become a 1990 – 2000 were full of commercial orders, comic books, madoctor, but he had a strongly pronounced desire to paint. He was king sketches for promotional items. In order to survive, Vladiremarkably diligent and observant. While at school, his teachers mir accepted all the offers that came along. often asked him to help create visual aids, and he earned his first money for drawing the slogan Long Live the First of May! when In 1990, Vladimir started travelling to Europe, earning his living he was 13. At the age of 14, he started to paint 3 m cinema po- by painting portraits in the streets of Barcelona, Berlin, Vienna sters, which later often added something special to the youth and other European cities. For 10 years, he participated in the parties. In the city of Krivoi Rog, Vladimir entered an arts school, and during his time there, he discovered the art of many classical painters. The works by Ilya Repin and Valentin Serov had a particular effect on him.
In 1980, he entered the School of Graphics at Lvov Institute of Printing Art. At the entrance exam, he painted an illustration to the novel The Young Guard. The Admission Committee, having seen Vladimir’s work, unanimously made a decision about his admission, even though his Literature and the History of CPSU exam results were far from brilliant.
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In 1982, in Krivoi Rog, Vladimir became the head of SPLAV artistic association. In 1986, he often visited Moscow, participated in international poster exhibitions, and in one of such contests, he won the first prize. In those very days, he visited the exhibition of Andreas Zorn’s works, which had a significant influence on him.
In 1988, he moved to Moscow in order to achieve his artistic potential. He started with painting portraits in Arbat, while at the same time he was looking for work. That was when his first contacts with publishing houses, advertising and record companies were established. They willingly employed him. With the emergence and development of digital technologies,
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Summer Portrait project in the Austrian town of Wels. Having seen his works on the vinyl and CD album covers he made for show business projects, Russian show business celebrities started making orders for painted portraits. In 1992, during his summer work as a contracted painter in the park of Gardaland (Italy), in one of the local markets, he purchased a book with Giovanni Boldini’s pictorial reproductions, which impressed, amazed and inspired Vladimir. When he saw the impressionists’ originals in the Musée d’Orsay, he started to spend more time on painting and never stopped working. At the beginning of 2000, Vladimir created a web page with his commercial and artistic works. It was through that page, that his art manager found him, and in 2004, Vladimir signed a long-term contract with Soho Editions, NY, USA. Vladimir discovered the names of John Singer Sargent, Joaquin Sorolla, adopted the style of romantic realism and started to paint in that manner. After seven years of marriage, in 2006, Vladimir and his wife, Ekaterina, moved to Spain. And in that same year, their son Anton was born. In 2007, he started his successful cooperation with Galeries Bartoux in France as well as with art galleries in the USA, Italy and Sweden. In 2011, while Vladimir was working on a 3D project, an idea of creating 3D dolls dawned on him. He set up web page and took part in the exhibitions in Paris (Doll Expo 2012), in Barcelona (Doll Show 2012), in New York (Art Expo New York 2012), in which both his paintings and dolls were a tremendous success. Vladimir worked on the inflow of private orders for portraits while simultaneously pursuing his artistic endeavours, the main theme of which was depicting women and children. Besides, Vladimir created videos dedicated to the process of painting creation, and has composed music to them.
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Since 2015, Vladimir has started to conduct video tutorials in figurative oil painting and, after his followers’ persistent requests, he has created a tutorial DVD.
DEDYKACJA OD VLADIMIRA VALEGOVA DLA HALINY ROSA 2017
1984-1988 - PARTICIPANT OF FOUR INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIONS OF POSTER 1985 - WINNER OF ALL-UNION COMPETITION OF CARICATURES IN „KOMSOMOLSKAYA PRAVDA” 1988 - WINNER OF SOVIET-POLAND COMPETITION OF POSTER (1 PLACE) 1988 - COLLABORATION WITH COMPANIES „MELODY”, „RDM”, „MOROZ RECORDS”, „GENERAL RECORDS”, „REC RECORDS” 1991 - WINNER OF COMPETITION FOR THE BEST POSTER TO „TSAR’S HUNTING” MOVIE (1 AND 3 PLACE) 1994 - CREATION OF SCULPTURE INSTALLATION - PROJECT FOR „REEBOK” 1996 - WINNER OF COMPETITION „BODY PAINTING” (1 PLACE) 1996 - DEMONSTRATION OF ART „BODY PAINTING” (AUSTRIA) 1996 - WINNER OF EXHIBITION „INTERCHARM 1996” COMPETITION „IMAGE 2000” (2 PLACE) 1998 - COLLABORATION WITH MAGAZINE „TV PARK” 1999-2000 - DESIGN OF MAGAZINE „ANDREY” AND CREATION OF NEWSPAPER „ANDREY EXPRESS” 2000 - PUBLICATION OF CARDS WITH CARICATURES OF FAMOUS RUSSIAN STARS 2001 - DESIGN OF FOUR PARTS OF CD, VHS AND DVD SERIES „OLD SONGS ABOUT THE MAIN THINGS” 2001-2002 - CHIEF ARTIST ON „NEW COMICS” MAGAZINE 2001-2002 - PARTICIPANT OF EXHIBITION OF COSMETIC COMPANY „DEBON”. CREATION PAINTINGS USING MAKE-UP MATERIALS 2002-2003 - COLLABORATION WITH NITOUSSOV PUBLISHING HOUSE. CREATION OF COMICS „SAPPHIRES OF QUEEN EUDOKIYA” 2003 - COLLABORATION WITH „POLYSTAR” COMPANY. CREATION OF MINI-SCULPTURES 2004 - SIGNING OF LONG-TERM CONTRACT WITH SOHO EDITION, NY, USA 2006 - 2007 - ART EXPO NY 2007 - START OF LONG-TERM PERMANENT COOPERATION WITH GALERIES BARTOUX, FRANCE 2007 - WINNER OF FAST PAINTING COMPETITION, LLORET DE MAR, SPAIN. 1 PLACE 2009 - WINNER OF FAST PAINTING COMPETITION, CALDES DE MALAVELLA, SPAIN. 3 PLACE 2011 - PUBLICATION SERIE OF VLADIMIR’S PAINTINGS AT CORPORATE CALENDARS OF „MATERIA MEDIC”, MOSCOW, RUSSIA; „COAL MINE RASPADSKAYA”, KEMEROVO, RUSSIA; „77BANK”, TOKYO, JAPAN 2012 - PARTICIPATING AT DOLL EXPO PARIS 2012 2012 - ART EXPO NY 2012 - EXHIBITION EXCELLENCE FAIR, S’AGARO, SPAIN 2012 - PRODUCING OF KITS OF EMBROIDERY WITH IMAGES OF VLADIMIR’S PAINTING; VERACHTERT, BELGIUM 2013 - EXHIBITION MILAN INTERNATIONAL FURNITURE FAIR 2014 - EXHIBITION IN GALLERY OBENICHE, HONFLEUR, FRANCE 2015 - EXHIBITION AT ART SHOW CAGLIARI 2015 - EXHIBITION AT WATERHOUSE GALLERY, SANTA BARBARA, CA, USA 2016 - RELEASE OF FIRST ART BOOK AND DVD INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEO 2016 - TWO BIG SHOW DEMONSTRATION OF OIL PORTRAIT IN ROYAL TALENS EXPERIENCE CENTRE, APELDOORN, THE NETHERLANDS 2016 - EXHIBITION IN GALLERY MELEFORS, LINKOPING, SWEDEN 2016 - EXHIBITION AT ART REVOLUTION TAIPEI 2017 - EXHIBITION AND DEMONSTRATION SHOW AT STOCKHOLM ANTIC AND ART FAIR, WITH GALLERY MELEFORS.
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2017 - EXHIBITION AND DEMONSTRATION SHOW AT STOCKHOLM ANTIQUE AND ART FAIR, WITH GALLERY MELEFORS PORTRAIT PAINTING / VLADIMIR VALEGOV-STOCKHOLM 2017
I WAS LUCKY TO MEET VLADIMIR VALEGOV PERSONALLY ON EXHIBITION AND DEMONSTRATION SHOW AT STOCKHOLM ANTIQUE AND ART FAIR IN 2017. i GOT A DEDICATED SIGNATURE AND WE HAD A SMALL TALK, HE IS AN HUMBLE GREAT ARTIST, HIS WIFE EKATARINA IS A LOVELY WOMEN WHO WAS TAKING CARE OF ALL GUESTS THEY WERE ADMIRING HIS BEAUTIFUL ART. HALINA ROSA
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