I would say that this write-up lyrical Daria Kurdyukova in today's "Nezavisimaya Gazeta".
http://www.ng.ru/culture/2013-08-20/7_kocheishvili.html
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Boris Kocheyshvili arranged in the Marble Palace "Simple Summer"
Poems Moscow poet Boris Kocheyshvili entered the Russian Anthology of Poetry (1950-2000). By Moscow artist Boris Kocheyshvili there at the Tretyakov Gallery and the Pushkin and Russian museums. Kit included the artist in a group show of art at the end of the last century and is said to have asked for the coming reliefs dedicated to them, a survey exhibition. But is open to the eyeballs season of "Simple Summer" - an unusual show. Because of the poetic collection of samizdat, which is now re-released and will present on September 12. And because in the Northern capital of the first personal, though not retrospective - here some fifty paintings, reliefs and paintings of zero years, when the artist obsessed with painting.
"Oh, the river, then what a great" - "splits" Kocheyshvili conversation in half, distracted look at the big window speedy St. Petersburg and Moscow. Including the artist, the poet in him to interrupt, but the fact - a wonderful storyteller. Kocheyshvili can talk about everything.
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About his friend Yuri Pogrebnichko director, who seems to idolize (albeit with an ironic word Kocheyshvili it does not fit). About the filming of Alexander Nagovitsyna in the movie "That man, a woman." About how after celebrating one of their birthdays ended up in Leningrad, as it was cheaper than taking a taxi to Zhukovsky ... Says calm, quiet and always with humor commercials suspension. As an observer, noticing the details and a few strokes of collecting history. In the works brought to the Marble Palace, mainly from the artist's studio and another from a private collection, optics and other parts a little bit, but it's also - stories.
Kocheyshvili works with acrylic on masonite. Hardboard, first, much cheaper than the canvas, and in addition, the artist says he, for many years do graphics, it is important to feel the resistance of the surface. He says, as it should be, landscapes, still lifes, people in general but in particular the family scenes. And women, of course. There are many. They walk with an angel, and nursing children sitting around a terrible black square hatch ... Ladies Kocheyshvili elegant and statuesque its conditional (Maiolo he prefers Giacometti, but it is - in brackets): they resemble sculptures that have lost their coloring and concrete shape - even the facial features . Whether ancient Aphrodite, or bodiless shadows, or even muse that even typing in the mouth water just is - and that's it. His landscapes are relative, too, they are composed of alternating colored stripes, spots, and they are pretty one main motive - at home or river.
He graduated in 1960 College of 1905 and then 10 years engaged in Eugene Theys in the Experimental Studio of etching Ignatius Nivinsky, Boris Kocheyshvili now in painting, as in the chart comes from the line and silhouette. Do not we need a clear image if there is poetic outline. One of them - the "White Sea", visco extending out over the landscape, as the milk cools down. Suddenly remembered Levitanovsky "Eternal Rest" and Kocheyshvili free verse: "Isaac Levitan /over the eternal /quiet /and I that."
But the most surprising in the "simple summer" - reliefs. Label with the words "plywood, plaster, PVA, acrylic" say little about the genre Kocheyshvili. Perhaps this is the picture, escaped into the third dimension, such 3D. Released outside - not much, bas-relief, but that now the light began to play with the shadows, and man-made things - a palette knife sauntering freely from end to end, but leaves underdeveloped, and it is seen as the hand moves the author - emphasized even more than in painting. White on white, side by side here "Baroque and constructivism" is referring to other poetic disputes about the oval and angle.
His opus pulls called metaphysical, but not in the sense of external similarity cities of Giorgio de Chirico, Giorgio Morandi's still lifes, or, as in feeling particularly sounding emptiness. Only in Kocheyshvili no gravity, and no claim on generalizations - each character all the same busy with his business in his small little world.
However, having said, rounding, you realize that it's not all that Kocheyshvili this framework does not fit. And exposure (supervising her Moscow art critic Tamara Vekhova and senior fellow for Russian art XIX-XX centuries belt Alice Lyubimov, a space designed the head of this department, Vladimir Lenyashin, and put the light came from Moscow, Nikolai Vorobiev, who used to work in the Tretyakov Gallery) shows that perspective out very cleverly, in each hall leaving out of the general line of accents. But among the reliefs with the architecture, the girls still life "in general" - a sudden show close-close person "Jackass." In another room, between light, melancholic landscapes flashes red and green "house of Wagner." In the third, again surrounded by "all" characters shelter "Angel," and his face on a paradoxical contrast with human faces interpret a portrait, almost realistic.
And about the river initially recalled because of the immediacy, uncomplicated kocheyshvilievskogo sight. Because of childishness, which is so necessary to man the writer - that the artist that the poet.
St. Petersburg-Moscow