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“an unsentimental Chagall…” (NY Times)
There are artists who appear to have been born to charm and enchant. Christian Science Monitor … Galanin deals with one idea at a time; he allows his figures plenty of space in which to breathe. The light is everywhere cool and even, and his notions of nature and architecture are entirely consoling. New York ...
“Fairy tales that don’t play anywhere else…”
There is no reality except the canvas and the stretcher, and this is an extension of childhood, which is of course one’s happiest time. … The identity of many artists is not recorded by history. I would be happy with such a fate. Maybe I will be remembered as the Unknown Master of the rabbit ...
Beginning as an artist in Soviet Russia…
Igor Galanin started his career illustrating children’s books and designing sets for the Moscow ballet. Desiring a career as a fine artist in the Western tradition, he fashioned a vision whose momentum carried him with his young family to Rome and his first solo exhibition in 1972. Thereafter his steps led to the United States ...