Michel YAKOVLEV, aka YAKO, was born in New York in 1963, and grew up in Geneva, where he began graffiti and exhibitions in the 80s. Graduating as a DPLG architect from the Grenoble School of Architecture in 1988, YAKO has lived in the Paris region since 1992. He runs his own Architectural office, YAKO ARCHITECTURE, and also produces a body of work comprising paintings, sculptures and ceramics. His characters, with their simple, meaningful physiognomy, tend towards universality. His plastic vocabulary pays homage to painting, its history and its great theme s: portraits, still lives, landscapes, nudes, are all revisited and interpreted in a colourama bursting with the artist's ardour and optimism... https://platform.wise.art/author/020302a39cac8d96626db3ab1c2f49f76e2707040210422c15/ https://www.instagram.com/michelyakovlev/?hl=en