Guennadi Kalinitchenko

Guennadi Kalinitchenko was born in Odessa on June 3rd 1949.
He began to study art in the Crimean N.S. Samokish Art School ( 1967-1971).
In 1977 he graduated from the Leningrad I.E. Repin Institute of Painting , Sculpture and Architecture having majored in painting restoration.
In 1978 -1983. GK and Prof. I.N.Taganov invented Para-Realism, created a collection of over 40 paintings in the Para-Realistic manner in the style of XVII century Flemish and Dutch artists that were exhibited in 1982-1989 at the first exhibition of of Para-Realism..
In 1999 GK developed the concept of BB-Art style, and later created a representative collection of BB-Art paintings and sculptures, some of them being on display at exhibitions in Sweden:” Art Fair “ ( 2002, 2003 and “ Stockholm Art Fair” ( 2004)…