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In 1982 Kolkoutine graduated at the Repin Academy of Arts in Leningrad, named after Ilya Repin.
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Andrej Kolkoutine
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Currently Kolkoutine lives in southern Russia in the town of Nalchik. He belongs to the art group " FOSTER BROTHERS " together with two other famous artists - Andrey Efi and Eugeny Lindin. The medium of his paintings is usually oil on canvas, but Kolkoutine also made a few sculptures and graphic works.
Besides Russia, Kolkoutine has made exhibitions in Denmark, Germany, France and other European countries as well as the United States.
Often the motifs are either stylized biblical or simple working people from the Russian province. According to Kolkoutine the biblical characters are in principle the same kind as the provincial people (Bjørnager, 2006).
The biblical motifs are also a reflection of his origin. They are distinctly orthodox.
Jekatarina Seleznjova states that in her opinion the fundamental question asks in his paintings is "Why are we here?" (Seleznjova, 2007), and thus despite the culturally characteristic motifs Kolkoutine"s paintings are supposed to touch something universally human.
Kolkoutines paintings are both simple and complicated it is said.
