Lilas Batuk Originally Kabardino, Hamid Savkuyef was born in the republic of Kazakhstan in 1964. He studied his true vocation, painting, in St. Petersburg and graduated from the State Institute attached to the famous I.E. Repin Academy of Art and Architecture. He worked in Milnikov’s Studio of Monumental Painting, from where he got his passion for working on a large scale. He is presently member of of the teaching staff of the painting department of the Repin Institute. His first period could be considered as formal. These works are symbolist, epic and hieratic, with the themes focussing on literary, oneiric, theatrical and cinematographic motifs. However they also have a certain degree of surrealism. He avoids raucous colours and uses a quite cold range. He works a lot with volume and dense masses with often have a stone-like appearance. The characters, although carrying out daily chores, are shown to be distanced and immersed in deep reflex ion, under a light which critics have described as “caravaggiesque”. Now his work can be found as part of important art collections belonging to different countries around the world. Some of his work is owned by the government of the Russian Federation, the government of the Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, the United States and the Generalitat, the Catalan autonomous government and the “Knegt-Drenth Foundation. 1964 Born in Kazakhstan in the family of immigrants from Kabardino-Balkaria. 1979 The family moves back to their homeland at Nalchik. 1989 Completed his art education at the Art and Graphics Faculty of Stavropol 1995 Graduated with honours from the I.E. Repin State Academic Institute of Arts, Sculpture and Architecture, St. Petersburg. 1995 Postgraduate studies at the creative studio of painting of the Russian Academy of Arts, of Professor A.A. Mylnikov. 1995 Lecturer at the studio of Professor A.A. Mylnikov at the I.E. Repin State Academic Institute of Arts. 1996 Member of the Russian Union of Artists. 1998 Member of the teaching staff of the painting department of the I.E. Repin State Academic Institute 1999 Participant in the reconstruction of the decoration of the Cathedral of Christ Saviour in Moscow. 2000 Member of the teaching staff of the department of Historical Religious Decoration of the I.E. Repin State Academic Institute of Arts. 2007 Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts.
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