Russian Shark in Paris

Introducing a new Shark contributor: Yaroslav Rovenskikh. Yaroslav was an art and art history student of mine years ago. Now he is a painter, garage rocker, DJ and is involved with music management. Yaro, as many call him, is from Moscow, studied in Switzerland with an American (me) and now resides mostly in Paris, France. I like to think of him as my protégé. He speaks Russian, English and French fluently, and some German (and maybe some Italian after that last girlfiend?). He was one of my favorite students and even collaborated with me and several other ex-students of mine on a group artwork for an exhibition in Switzerland a few years ago. According to his My Space page his motto is “Come Spy with Me.” He’s (only) 25 years old, but has a strong set of quirky interests and views on art and a crazy cosmopolitan background, to say nothing of all the insanity and half-truths I taught him. So I hope he’ll be contributing some unique viewpoints on art, music, Paris, Russia, Europe and more. He’ll be posting under my rubric until we get him set up here at Sharkforum. Добро пожаловать! (Welcome! Or something like that!)