Welcome to the virtual galery with artworks from Nikolai Makarov. With his virtuoso paintings, the Russian artist, who has lived in Berlin since 1974, has painted his way into the hearts of his collectors and curators and has meanwhile also exhibited in many countries around the world.
Portraiture produced by Makarov depicts people who belong to his own circle of friends or likenesses of those who have commissioned portraits from the artist. Makarov dissolves the realism of the photographic templates used through painterly and technical manipulation; he alienates the frontally posed faces of his subjects, causing them to appear as though enshrouded by an almost transparent veil of colour.