The artist Mihail Taskov was born on 28.06.1973 in Sofia, Bulgaria. In 1992 he graduates the National High school for applied art in Petar Nedkov's class with specialty "Artistic wood carving." In 1997 the artist grants his diploma with honours, graduating the National Academy of Fine Arts, the only one in the world where the art of wood carving is taught, in the class of professor Kancho Tzanev.

When the artist chooses wood for his material, inevitably the chiseled forms are endowed with live flesh, no matter whether it is linden, elm, ash, sycamore maple, cherry, oak, beech or walnut. The very essence of wood introduces its own warmth, carrying the features of its proper life. According to that it is not wrong to call woodcarving a warm art.

The deep feeling of the artist towards the specific of the material, considerably determines the trends of Mihail Taskov. The organic connection between the live material and the desired form dominates in the whole artwork of the artist. If we take a look at every single work of him, we shall see that he is obviously seeking realization in an intermediate sphere - on the border between the sculpture and the decoratively stylized wood - plastic. In his works we can see the striving  to seek his own synthesis - exposure of the universal formulas for anthropomorphic interpretation of the live forms. Works like the "totems" and the "nudes" deliberately show a multiform search in the means of expression. Obviously, we face a complex nature that has outgrown the routine in a handicraft that has its ancient history and perfect patterns in Bulgaria.

It is most likely that all this has impressed the academic board of examiners to announce him as the favourite among the graduates of The National Academy of Fine Arts.

The artist participates as early as 1992 in an exhibition of the applied art at the National culture palace in Sofia. His early works were cordially welcomed at the exhibitions of INTERART in Montevideo in 1995, Albena in 1996 and Sofia in 1996 (together with the graphic artist Onnik Karanfilian) and evoked the curiosity of the connoisseurs of art. He also takes part in the exhibition of the graduates of The National Academy of Fine Arts in the Palace Of the People and the Earth in 1997 and wins the first prize for woodcarving.

Many of his works already can be found in private collections in Greece, Spain, Turkey, USA and Bulgaria.

The artist lives and works in Sofia.