Pavel
Leonidovich Korzukhin

Korzukhin Pavel Leonidovich was born in the city of Leningrad, November 27, 1967.
Since the age of five, he has been a regular visitor to art and history museums in Leningrad-St. Petersburg. He grew up in the environment of humanitarian intelligentsia: historians, archaeologists, artists, art critics, which influenced his further creativity and choice of profession.
1979 - 1982. - Student of the Children's Art School No. 1 of the Dzerzhinsky district of Leningrad. 1987 - 1992. - Student of the Leningrad State University named after A.A. Zhdanov, evening department of the History Faculty, Department of Art History. At the same time worked in the Archive of Film and Photo Documents of the Leningrad Branch of the Institute of Archaeology of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1987 - 1992).

In 1984 he created his first monumental painting panel, 5 X 2.5 meters, to order in a private apartment. Since then, among creative directions, monumental painting is in priority. Since 1992 he has been engaged in easel painting under private orders, in parallel performing design projects - logos, emblems, corporate identity and outdoor advertising for commercial companies. Since 1995 he has been constantly cooperating with entertaining establishments of St. Petersburg - night clubs, restaurants, bars and cafes as an interior designer and muralist, without stopping parallel creative activities in the fields of easel painting, graphics and decorative and applied art - sculptural plastics of small forms, author's souvenirs.
During the period 1995 - 2010, Pavel Korzukhin painted more than two thousand square meters of private and public interiors. Pavel Korzukhin painted more than two thousand square meters of private and public interiors, created dozens of original art objects, including stage and interior lighting fixtures and lamps, interior fountains, artificial waterfalls, flower beds, sculptures, reliefs and high relief painted panels. By the beginning of the 2000s, his work took on a synthetic conceptual character, the apotheosis of which was the interior of the nightclub "Cave", the year-long construction of which was marked by the first place in the rating of interiors of nightclubs in St. Petersburg and publication in the magazine "Interior + Design" for 2003. At the same time he participated in collective exhibitions in the Pushkinskaya-10 art center. Since 2003 he gradually moved to decorating and painting in private apartments. Among the major original works: a 24 square meter diorama with a tropical flower bed and an illuminated artificial waterfall in the interior of a 25 meter swimming pool with entirely painted walls. The interior was shown on St. Petersburg TV in 2004. In the same year the production of a decorative, relief-painting panel for the interior of the restaurant was started. The work was 61 linear meters in length and 1.5 meters in height. Made in a mixed technique, the relief-painting panel represented a landscape of a Western European medieval city with a lifting bridge on chains, a cobbled embankment, weathervanes on spires and a stained-glass window in the rose of a Gothic temple. Small multicolored lamps were embedded in the windows of the buildings. The panels took a year to create. By the way, twice, in 2004-05, he took part in exhibitions of designer Christmas trees, held in the Marble Palace of St. Petersburg, organized by glossy interior magazines for design companies of St. Petersburg. Korzukhin's works were then praised in the St. Petersburg press and on TV.
In addition to private commissions, he participated in the restoration of facades and interiors of architectural monuments in St. Petersburg: the Grand Palace in Pavlovsk, the mansion of F. K. San-Galli (62 Ligovsky Ave.), the Polovtsev mansion on Stone Island.
In addition to traditional painting and graphics, he has mastered sculpting and sculptural plaster modeling, production of stained glass in the technique of tiffany, design and manufacture of interior lamps, the technique of creating fluorescent panels, work in computer graphic editors.
The works created were characterized by stylization and contemplative imagery. Romantic landscapes were favored. Decorative elements were borrowed from the ancient art of the Mediterranean and Mesopotamia, as well as tropical Africa and prehistoric frescoes.
The order to paint an icon of St. Trinity became a turning point in the creative theme. After its successful execution was followed by an order to create an icon of St. John of Kronstadt and a church blessing to study in the icon painting workshop of the St. John the Theologian Cheremenets Monastery.
The first, painted as an exercise, icon of St. Martyrius of Zelenets, created three months after the beginning of the training, was placed in the space of the altar of the Assumption Church in the village of Zaruchye, and the analoy icon of St. John of Kronstadt in the church of the same name in the Dolozhsk skete. A relief concrete stele "Righteous Lot Watering the Tree of the Cross" (86 X 69 cm) was designed and made for the same place for installation over a decorative waterfall in the parish church garden.
In the icon-painting workshop the full cycle of creating an icon according to the Byzantine canon was trained.
Having extensive experience in the development of fonts and inscriptions, immediately upon entering the workshop he was engaged to work as a calligrapher, "fontographer". Alongside his studies, he painted icons to order and for realization. All icons were purchased by customers or sold through church shops.

In the course of his studies he was in search of a commission for monumental church painting. In 2013, he participated in the creation of the project of painting the church of St. Theodore Ushakov, which is located in St. Petersburg on Korolev Avenue, 7A. In this temple, with his participation, designed the altar barrier, made in the tradition of ancient Christian Greek temples with a sculptural composition of two dolphins-crossbones. Later, in 2016, in the same temple, the painting of a wooden over-the-gate crucifix, 122 X 82 cm, was performed.
In 2015 was successfully completed an order for painting the conch of the altar apse (30 square meters) and ornamental belt in the quatrefoil of the church of Sts. Boris and Gleb, village of Volokhovo, Vladimir region. Volokhovo, Vladimir region. In 2016, he carried out renovation of paintings in the church of St. Elijah the Prophet, v. Kulie, Pskov region. In September 2018, completed work on a large festive icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the Unleavened Flower.
To this day Pavel Leonidovich Korzukhin is engaged in active creative activity in a variety of genres and areas: monumental paintings, easel painting, graphics, icon painting, heraldry, computer collage.

CREATIVE MANIFESTATION
The author's concept is expressed in the position of an active observer. The reflection of the paradoxes of modern life is reproduced both in aesthetic forms and in the technique of artistic works. Total stylistic eclecticism and mixing of images of mutually exclusive traditions, along with the mixing of polar ideas and forms of reality, are corrected by the author's vision of harmony. Art turns into a total collage. A photographed image can be transformed in a digital editor, printed on a physical plane and refined into a volumetric colorful relief, suddenly turning out to be an element of a spontaneous composition, the theme of which is dictated by the current moment itself. The content is not of key importance, as it is different for everyone. What matters is the spirit that the work communicates, which is the content. The process of constant restructuring of reality is fixed. In a conditional unit of time, it, reality, disintegrates into countless fragments and is reassembled again. Quotations, associations, parodies, the graphics of a painterly stroke, the ringing of a musical pause, the flow of a frozen moment... The most abstract concept is "border". Water-soluble acrylic interacts perfectly with oil, putty with paper, wire with absorbent cotton. The purpose of creativity is to harmonize reality, as harmony contributes to achieving a pristine inner silence. And this silence is both the background and the content of the process of universal creation. Connection to this process contributes to health and longevity, helping to consciously pass into eternity. In this way, the author's works are pauses of a continuous moment.

The expression of the author's concept is the position of an active observer. The display of the paradoxes of modern life is reproduced both in aesthetic forms and in the technique of performing works of art. Total stylistic eclecticism and a mixture of images of mutually exclusive traditions, along with a mixture of polar ideas and forms of reality, are corrected by the author's vision of harmony. Art turns into a total collage. The photographed image can be transformed in a digital editor, printed on a physical plane and finalized into a three-dimensional colorful relief, suddenly becoming an element of a spontaneous composition, the theme of which is dictated by the very current moment. The content is not of key importance, since everyone has their own. The main thing is the spirit communicated by the work, it is the content. The process of constant restructuring of reality is fixed. For a conventional unit of time, it, reality, breaks up into countless fragments and is reassembled again. Quotes, associations, parodies, graphics of a painterly stroke, the sound of a musical pause, the flow of a frozen moment ... The most abstract concept is "border". Water-soluble acrylic perfectly interacts with oil, putty with paper, wire with cotton wool. The purpose of creativity is to harmonize reality, since harmony contributes to the achievement of primordial inner silence. And this silence is both the background and the content of the process of universal creation. Connecting to this process contributes to health and longevity, helping to consciously move into eternity. Thus, works of authorship are pauses of a continuous moment.