Roman Manikhin: Holiday Romance

Holiday Romance exhibition presented a collection of the most striking works of the artist, as if living in a different reality, incredibly colorful, emotional and hyperbolically positive

Roman Manihin creates an illusory world in which objects from completely different worlds intertwine. They find common interests with the artist - mermaids can communicate with dolphins, a beautiful Dalmatian rides with his girlfriend in a pink convertible, a girl smokes a hookah with a crocodile in the bathroom. This grotesque, together with a great love for the beauty of women, is at the heart of Manikhin’s artistic style.

Roman Manikhin

Crocodile gave a sunflower, 2020

Oil on canvas

140 x 140 cm

Roman Manikhin

Lobsters runaway, 2020

Oil on canvas

140 x 207 cm

Exhibition view at Lazy Mike Gallery

Manikhin manages to achieve incredibly vivid contrasts of colours and shapes thanks to his special technique of working with oil paints. Using methods of representing Fauvism, the artist develops the principles and effects of paintings from the early twentieth century.