Mikail Akar doesn't flinch as the cameras click around him. Born in 2012, the German artistic prodigy has spent half his life in the limelight.
With his striped jumper, goofy grin and dreams of becoming a professional footballer, Akar seems just like any other seven-year-old boy.
Akar senior discovered Mikail's precocious talent by chance several years ago, when he gifted his son a canvas and some handprint paints for his fourth birthday. An explosion of colour reminiscent of Jackson Pollock, the piece is typical of Akar's abstract expressionist style. At a presentation of Akar's new work at a private gallery in Berlin last month, one visitor said she was "speechless" upon discovering that the artist was a child who was just starting primary school.
"As long as he has someone supporting him and not exploiting him, then he has a great future ahead of him," she said."When I'm older I want to be a football player," he said, launching into an excited account of a recent 8-0 victory with his school team. "If it gets too much for him, we will intervene. We turn down a lot of requests," said the elder Akar.SUCCESSFUL BRAND
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