Epines (2018) Painting by Karnakiev

Born on October 8, 1977 in the Paris region, I have always spent my free time drawing. Then I started adding paint to my drawings, until that day in 1999 when I bought my first canvas and my first tubes of oil paint. 

First under my real identity then under my pseudonym "Karnakiev" I chained the exhibitions and started to make myself known by word of mouth.  This is how I started to work also on commission and decided to dedicate myself to art 100%: Oil painting, acrylic, pastels, Indian ink, music, sculpture, computer graphics , video editing, murals, book illustrations, photography, writing, currently a comic strip in the works...

Self-taught, I have of my own volition refused to submit to any "formatting "by entering the Beaux-Arts which I consider too academic. The rules and the limits, for me, are contrary to the own of the artist. 

My first paintings were rather sad, almost sinister, I evolved towards works much more accessible and left for some years expressing my "inner demons" in a parallel project, under the pseudonym "Eingeweide", where I explore a very particular, dark and organic art, in which I constantly push the limits of "acceptability" for the common people deadly.

• Nationality: FRANCE
• Date of birth : 1977
• Artistic domains:
• Groups: Contemporary French Artists