Nikolai Muchin

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Muchin with Putin and the Serbian Patriarch Irenej, 2019

Nikolai Alexandrowitsch Muchin (born June 13, 1955 , Kostroma , USSR ) is a Soviet and Russian painter and sculptor. Muchin is a member of the Russian Art Academy , appointed People's Artist of Russia in 2005 . He is the founder of the Association of Yaroslav Icon Painters ("Ярославская икона"). His main works include the frescoes of the Moscow Ascension of Christ Cathedral and the decoration of the Cathedral of St. Sava with approx. 10,000 m² of mosaics.

Life

Muchin was born on June 13, 1955 in Kostroma. From 1970 he lived in Yaroslav. In 1974 he studied at the Yaroslav Art School (Ярославское художественное училище). 1985 member of the USSR Artists Association. 2000–2005 he studied at the Surow Institute of the Russian Art Academy in Moscow, where he also graduated in 2008.

After working on the frescoes of the Moscow Ascension of Christ Cathedral together with Evgeniji Nikolajewitsch Maximow (Евгений Николаевич Максимов, * 1948), they also won the 2014 tender for the decoration of the Belgrade Sava Cathedral.

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Dome mosaic, Cathedral of Saint Sava in Belgrade

Muchin has painted numerous churches in the USA, Croatia, Serbia, Japan and Russia. His frescoes, completed in 2007 in the Serbian Orthodox Cathedral in Zagreb, were badly damaged by the 2020 Zagreb earthquake on March 22, 2020 . Since 2014 he has been working on the mosaic work in the Cathedral of Saint Sava, which has been realized since 2017. Due to the high material costs (1 m² mosaic = 600 dollars), the work could only be carried out with grants from the Russian state. With costs of around 50 million euros, the work on the interior design accounts for around half of the total cost of the building.

Muchin was certified in his competition project that the artist: "a specific iconography that goes back to Byzantine and Serbian art and creates compositions that are a reinvention of the interior of a modern church building".

In addition to the mosaic work, Muchin designed a bronze chandelier with a diameter of 20 m and a weight of 14 tons for the St. Sava Cathedral . Until October 2020 this will be suspended from 12 pull ropes in the room under the dome at a height of 7.5 m above the church floor. When it is completed, it will be the largest wheel chandelier in the world. Muchin analyzed three variants of 30, 25 and 20 m diameter in the spatial effect, whereby he and his team decided on the smallest as the most suitable.

literature

  • Н. Мухин. Скульптура. Монументальная роспись. Живопись. М., 1997;
  • Н. А. Мухин: живопись, графика, скульптура, проекты. Рыбинск, 2011.

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credentials

  1. ↑ Novosti, November 26, 2015 Ukrašavanje Hrama svetog Save odlažu kompikovane procedure
  2. ↑ Ексклузивно: Унутрашњост Саборне цркве у Загребу после земљотреса. In: rs.sputniknews.com , March 22, 2020, accessed March 22, 2020 (Serbian)
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personal data
SURNAME Muchin, Nikolai
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Muchin, Nikolai Alexandrovich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet and Russian painters and sculptors
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1955