Starting from an early age, Maxim Isachenko has been defining himself and developing his art over the last fifteen to twenty years. During this time he has discovered his own visual language for transferring deep emotional experiences and dilemmas onto canvas. From a lonely and misunderstood wanderer, he has grown into an artist with much to say about himself and the world around him.

In his creative expression, an important role is played by the author’s intuition; how he is able to shift the world around him into a system of metaphors. Isachenko shows in his paintings not a set of familiar objects or situations, but rather how he experiences them inside himself. Colour is often responsible for the accurate reflection of such emotional experiences: in some paintings it seems to be practically washed off the canvas, in others, on the contrary, it captures the imagination with bright accents. The artist seems to be balancing at the junction of two arts, painting and music, immersing the listener in polar emotions, from tender aching notes to thunderous chords, and thus allowing the whole palette of feelings to be absorbed.

Alongside his emergence into one of Russia’s leading young artists, his works have been exhibited in Berlin, Miami, New York, Moscow and his home town of Smolensk.