Migel GRASE (Russie)

Migel Grase, artist, designer, writer, photographer, filmmaker. Born June 24, 1987.  
He doesn’t have any special artist education.
Since early childhood he showed talents for painting and history of arts.
Migel suffered from asthma when he was a child and nearly died from acute asthma attack when he was seven years old. His success at school studies was not steady.  It was often  uneasy for him to find common language with his school mates and curators.
During his adolescence Migel plays with dolls and spends the vast part of the time in isolation.
Migel likes tales and stories about the afterworld and the dead. He believes in these stories like a child to the present day. On his way of becoming a musician he gathers a band, being an ideologue and lyrics writer there. However his dream turned out to be unwanted for the destiny – Migel’s bands split one by one. Mockery and overall misunderstanding make his isolation more and more suffocating and depressive and he makes a decision to recall a dream of his childhood to become an artist.
And now his paintings are not the green meadows but human evil and commonness masks.
Since 2008 he continuously paints his nightmares, carrying out experiments with photo, paintings and design.
He names his art FUCking ART – trying to keep the self-criticism and the hate that was knocked into his head. Migel  paints with the ultra speed, seeks for his own style, flirts with the surrealism, Picasso’s apotheoses and becomes ill with the near acid reality of Van Gogh, but the ghosts of the childhood, twisted in a desperate cry, remain unchanged. By 2009 he turns his paintings into animation and makes his first depressive animation film «Clinical Death» – that was at once swallowed by the psychedelia fans. Then he creates «Lobotomy», the animation film about a woman who is sick with her truncated brain – «This animated film is especially close to me, it truly resembles my isolation»
Under impression from Irving Stone “Lust for life” he creates new animation film «Paints for Vincent» that was warmly accepted in internet by all the fans of Van Gogh. His fanatic creativity overcomes into a drug, within a day he creates from 4 to 15 artworks. Ignoring the critics and offered exhibitions. Filmmaking absorbs him and he determines to try himself in the capacity of a music video maker for a rebel musician Noiz Mc. He makes a video for a “Kantemirovskaya” song on a digital camera and frame after frame turns them into an animated collage film soaked with suicide and despair of Moscow metro. Surprisingly, but only on YouTube this animated film collected more than 40 000 views. Nevertheless, Grase for some time stops to make films and mercilessly paints and makes photos. By 2010 he created about 700 paintings. But the depression and continuous criticism with the cliché “drug-fiend” sent him to the bottom. Terrifying images of the past revive and break free.
Migel starts creation of the new music video for the Psihea band. This band is very close to him for its ideology. It took Migel 8 months to create this music movie, creating it was a true drug-art for him. This music movie starts a new wave of his art. On April 16 he married Lin’у Vitl – the heroine of his future movie M/G « Alice in the wonderland ». F#Cking Art, standing against everyone, finds its spectators and becomes a symbol of the juvenile exorcism.

 

 


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