描述
Vladimir Manzhos was born in 1981 near Kyiv. His father was an art lover and a collector of local art and rare orthodox icons.
The art career of Vladimir Manzhos, more known as Waone, began in 1999. For the next few years he painted graffiti as a member of the Ingenious Kids crew in Kyiv. In 2003, he got bored of letters and together with Aec went to the next level of public art, visual storytelling. They have been painting large surreal murals with fantastic stories.
In 2005 Waone and Aec established an artist duo, Interesni Kazki, which means «Interesting fairy tales» in Ukrainian. Their murals are full of fairy characters, fine details, smooth gradients, symbols and stories. Next 10 years the duo traveled all around the world, from Australia to Mexico and from San Francisco to Moscow. Inspired by local cultures and traditions, they paint murals expressing local context.
Early 2016, Vladimir established a new direction in his mural painting, black and white murals. 2016 was also the last year of Interesni Kazki as an artist duo. Since May 2016 Waone has been working as a single artist.