V.Kozhevnikov, red and black currants
 

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Vladimir Kozhevnikov, red and black currants, 2001, canvas /canvas, 57 x 48 cm


Vladimir Kozhevnikov was born in 1950 in Leningrad.
Since 1975, worked in the studio of the artist PP Utkin.
Since 2000 - Member of the Union of Russian Artists.
Member of the city, republican and Russian exhibitions. Solo exhibitions were held in Moscow, Pskov, St. Petersburg, Sweden, Paris, London, Boston, Las Vegas.
Since 2007, member of the International Association of Art Critics. Initiator and inspirer of the creative association "Argonauts".
The artworks are in museums and private collections in Russia and abroad.

In art, St. Petersburg artist Vladimir Kozhevnikov is, in my opinion, some deeply hidden drama. I am referring to the original meaning of the word. "Drama", as you know, means "action." His relationship with the world is not assured, as is likely, and to himself. In principle, the paintings Kozhevnikova nothing happens. His motives are traditional and universal: landscape, still life, nudes. But he - painter harsh warehouse. Sometimes its almost austere palette fancies: milky silver, heat-pearl, thick ocher with the indispensable presence of sharp spots thickly, as if the provisions of white faceted brushstrokes. Many of his landscapes and still written with a fierce and at a cool spirituality. However, there are other works. The artist with intense argument with his own severe restraint. Sometimes in his canvases bursting funfair, dazzling fun, but it's more fun colors and rhythms than the inner joy of the artist. Roundelay boldly outlined bright, unmistakably tuned planes, the exact ratio of Valerie, an exciting mix of care with sophisticated doodling - all this contributes to its strange and beautiful world of great concern. The artist strives for the original essence of the color formula and plastic figures, things landscape. He breaks into the hidden flesh objective real world to show its fundamental principle - artistic, rational and sensual. Vladimir Kozhevnikov - artist hidden temperament, his creative tension is bound by the will and strong taste, Finding and quiet (it would seem!) The surface of his canvases fancies buzzing in anticipation of the explosion, when suddenly furtive festive splash out on the canvas. Conviviality, with all its serenity always waiting anxiety. However, his art is another quality, which introduces a certain constant, and a kind of emotional plastic balance even in his paintings, which fancies alarm. I mean its a rare sense of architectonics. The fact that at the turn of the XIX and XX centuries claimed in art Newest Time Paul Cezanne - "Rock of the canvas" as an independent artistic value - Kozhevnikov uses professionally and accurately. In his paintings there is no illusion of space or volume, the material world is built into them for artistic laws. Shape design, color values, attitudes spots and mass - all this brings to his paintings, if not peace, equilibrium, stability, a sense of completeness, in which not only nothing can be added, but nothing is impossible and take away. I think Vladimir Kozhevnikov, certainly much reaching, not satisfied yet found: his art - neissyaknuvshaya willingness to experiment, to the grotesque, to the rejection of naydennogo.No found already very much. And this gold reserve, complete aspiration to search - not just a pledge of success (he's an artist hedgehog sign), but also a serious movement to finding yourself - the main goal of a gifted wizard.
Michael Herman (Professor, Doctor of Arts, member of the Academy of Human Sciences, a member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), chief researcher at the State Russian Museum)