Kulakov Mikhail A.

January 8, 1933 (Moscow) — February 15, 2015 (Italy)

Painter, book graphics, theater artist, monumental.

studied at art school in Moscow, then graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Theater, Music and Film (workshop Akimova).

worked as a book in the publishing schedule of "Lenizdat" and "Soviet writer", illustrated books poet friends: V. Sosnory, G. Gorbovsky, Davydova, stories A. Green, A. Bitova.

The designer theatrical performances in Leningrad, Volkhov and Moscow.

Participated in exhibitions since 1964 (in Novosibirsk, Moscow, Yerevan, Dubna). But in general in the Soviet Union Kulakov exhibited rarely.

Since 1976 he lives and works in Italy.

After 1976 the artist's solo exhibitions were held in Rome, Milan, Perugia, Bari, Naples, as well as in New York, Vienna, Munich, Hamburg, Bremen, Frankfurt and other cities around the world.

exhibition was a great success Mikhail Kulakov in the halls of the Bank d'Italia in Rome (1992). "Universe. Land. Umbria "- was the name of his exhibition in the city of Terni (1996). Mosaics Michael Kulakov decorate one of the stations of the Rome metro.

Since 1988 Kulakov regularly exhibited in Russia: in Moscow, St. Petersburg, in Penza, in Novgorod. His paintings and drawings were shown at the Moscow Museum of Fine Arts. Alexander Pushkin (1991), and then in the Museum of Ethnography in St. Petersburg in a representative display of the kulaks in the Russian private collections ».

In the U.S., published an essay about the artists Kulakov A. Zverev and E. Mikhnov-Voitenko and novel Levashevskie Chronicle; in Germany, published his book "Letters to itself».

«Creativity Mikhail Kulakov affects me particularly because it creates the freedom», - so said the academician Dmitry Likhachev, make friends with the artist, in the preface to one of his albums. The artist prefers to laugh it off: «I can paint a portrait, landscape, still life, perform free songs. I draw a little worse than Picasso's sense of color, like Van Gogh, and could become a sculptor or a writer ... «