Nicholas Shaplyko & Ekaterina Sorokina
Granted Permanent Residence in the USA as an Artist With Extraordinary Abilities, 1994.
Nicholas Shaplyko and Ekaterina Sorokina found Museum of Modern Renaissance in 2002.
Nicholas Shaplyko and Ekaterina Sorokina born in Moscow, Russia.
According eastern calendar they both Pisces and it is symbolic, that they met each other on the river during white water canoeing. Since there their life and their art, which they create together is full of dynamic and symbolism, emotional like turbulent mountain river and artistically explosive like bottle of champagne.
They were granted Permanent Residence in the USA as Artists with Extraordinary Abilities in 1994. In Boston they had purchased old Masonic Temple and transferred it into Temple of Art, they named it “Museum of Modern Renaissance”.
“The first Renaissance brought beauty and humanity back to society, and we think it is time to do it again”.-Nicholas said. 
This Museum is one of a kind and is single piece of art itself. It gives you unique opportunity to enter inside of single piece of art, inside another world, inside another dimension. Walls and ceiling are covered with fresco like paintings of mythological themes achieve stained-glass effect. Nicholas and Ekaterina work together on each painting and this union of male and female origin brings harmony to their art. They use black base background for all their artworks. It makes colors more refine, delicate and alive. Nicholas and Ekaterina have created a new style and called it “Magical Realism”.
They travel a lot finding inspiration for their work in ancient art of different countries. They write books and always looking for new discoveries in their artistic journey.
Mystical realism
Writing about art of an artist is like interpreting the abstract idea, it is like trying to express the meaning of something much more nebulous and abstract; it is like trying to materialize in words something that is not material to begin with. 
And yet we have in front of us very concrete paintings that are quite material. What do they say? Where do they take us? What do they mean?
The art of K&K is not representational. It is not a still-life or a portrait or a landscape in traditional sense. There are landscapes and city views, there are faces and there are objects on those canvases of course but they are not renditions of reality. What unites them all is exactly that — they take the perceiver of this art away from reality in terms of representation of reality. One views an image of a city that is all crooked like reflection of the city in the
water and then one realizes that the landscape has an idea that carried the viewer away, an idea that the city we are looking at is a fleeting image distorted by its reflection in the water broken into tiny bits and fleeing into eternity as a mirage.
What one actually sees on the canvas of K& K art is only a doorway to a mystical world beyond the canvas. The images on the canvas are simply invitations to the world beyond, a worlds of spiritual energy, a world of struggling deities, and a world of powerful forces tearing apart human soul.Read More »