Experienced a firstclass Soviet training, which gave me a great grounding in the classics: Chekhov, Dostoevsky. A graduate of the Moscow Cinema Academy, she originally educated as an animated artist and is a massive enthusiast of Soviet cartoons. She is nostalgic for the seventies, she states, and attempts to recapture that time period in her function. was a period when we were all just about surviving, but it was a time when individualism really took off. She cites as an inspiration Andrei Tarkovsky, the great Russian filmmaker whose heyday was in the 1970s: his movies are about looking for faith, which means and redemption. These had been more harmless occasions, Chernysheva states. art world can be a tough place for an artist because these days it all about glamour. With her new billiga michael kors väska and innocent face, it is difficult to believe that Chernysheva is the mother of a 21yearold daughter (she is married to a publisher, Alexander Ivanov, 50). I appear younger, it because we artists are infantile, she laughs. Valery Koshlyakov (left) is wearing baggy cords and trainers. Warm, brown eyes smile out wearily from a encounter speckled with several times stubble. He is a handsome man, but he desires his photograph taken quickly. much better do it now, before my shirt gets dirty, he mutters. The supplies for his piece Unfinished Venture are horribly messy: his depictions of a Moscowlike skyline are done in watery michael kors väska tar on sheets of plastic, that includes his signature paint. The cityscape signifies Moscow for him: an everlasting building site, always in transition, never finished. about the dreams of an architect, the unfinished character of Russia, he says. the concept of the city being not able to continue as it is simply because every era has their own ideas and they don coincide with what their forefathers started. It about building and destruction. Then he talks at size about metaphysics of nonfunctioning things Koshlyakov grew up in southern Russia, close to michael kors väskor RostovonDon. From the late eighties he grew to become wellknown for his cityscapes, architectural fantasies and hastily executed spraypainted portraits, total with dribbles (such as one of the Mona Lisa). a kid I realised I could be an artist or nothing, he says. I had a typical Soviet childhood, I was always very critical in those times. Now I cautious. Things could have turned out differently. The USSR was an fascinating nation. It a disgrace what has occurred since the socalled new revolution. Artwork, he states, was never a precedence in Communist times but at minimum artists could afford to live cheaply. Now he worries that commercialism has pushed artwork even further down the agenda and it is practically billiga chanel väskor not possible to live as an impoverished artist in today Russia simply because of the rising cost of living. Even though a fervent patriot, he has stored a studio in Paris since 2003 when he received a grant as a outcome of his function at that year Venice Biennale. He