Michal Korman
A Slovakian painter based in Paris, Michal Korman (b. 1987) draws his inspiration from luxuriant gardens and green spaces within urban environments. His compositions reveal the complexity of the natural world and its relation with constructed entities, objects or spaces.
His charming and evocative paintings aspire to capture the equilibrium between the natural and artificial, transposing the idea of reconnecting with nature whilst living in the city. Korman considers that every place we encounter on our daily basis, whether it is a beautiful garden, a discreet Japanese garden in Kyoto or the park we pass through everyday can be a space of healing and meditation.
He often depicts the pots in which he grows plants in his Parisian apartment, focusing on the existence of nature within his own daily life. For the artist these spaces become inner gardens which he bears inside him.
Employing a predominantly bright and vivid colour pallete, Korman make use of certain decorative patterns in order to add depth and enhance the aesthetic characteristics of the vegetal world.
Michal Korman started his artistic education at the young age of 5, when the Slovak academic painter Jozef Jelenak, admitted him to his courses for children at the School of Art in Michal's hometown, Partizanske. These early influences had built up the foundations for a later structural and artistic approaches Michal adopted, namely: the love for fauvism and expressionism.
In 2006, he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts and he continued to develop his own style of painting focusing on urban landscapes and figures. In 2009, he had his first international exhibition at Cobalt International Gallery, Brussels, Belgium and was nominated by The Committee of Regions in Brussels as one of the 100 Young Europeans of Exceptional Creative Talent.
In recent years he had several solo exhibitions in Slovakia and internationally, such as My Pots at Galerie Daniel Hanemian, Paris, France (2019), The Inner Gardens at Setouchi City Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan (2020) and Korman at House of Culture, Partizanske, Slovakia (2020).
His works are part of important private collections worldwide in Belgium, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, France, Czech Republic, Hungary, Israel, China, Japan, Singapore and United States of America.
