Boris Kocheyshvili. Life in Art

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each artist has its own version of the dialogue with the world, with the being. Somebody masterly works with colors, someone is able to fill his creations flickering light. Other seek and find new forms, some relevant concepts. Kocheyshvili - master of space and composition. How he manages to convey within a small plane of the sheet such incredible depth of mystery, the answer to which is no, and the author. No wonder one of his favorite words is an old Russian word "ACOEM" - vast expanses of the Russian landscape that are difficult to overcome, but you can cover the eyes.

Boris Kocheyshvili was born in Elektrostal, graduated from Moscow art College. He worked hard and was well known in the artistic environment of Moscow in the early 1970s. Your destination for full copyright of the grotesque and poetry style he developed already. The artist inhabits their works female figures, architectural motifs, such as towers, houses, temples, various objects and flowers at Kocheyshvili plastically rethought, stylized in some "formula" of real objects. These images are precious finds, as precise plastic formula of his art, "I", go through all the artist's work and make his work instantly recognizable. Drawing, painting, sculptural relief and poetry flow into each other and go out of the boundaries of genre. Case when procurement Committee GTG long time to decide what storage - paintings or drawings - to include work of Boris Kocheyshvili, typical of his kind manners. "By itself, the question arises, what kind of "niche" is placed Boris Kocheyshvili. How to write about it? Who is he? A modernist? The sixties? A nonconformist? Unfortunately, our understanding of the trends in contemporary art is extremely scarce. We do not have enough of terms and concepts. All of our existing classification of elementary and too conditional," he wrote at the time, the critic Valery Turchin. Kocheyshvili exists outside areas, outside and styles. The author's language of this artist - poet as great and varied as the vast space, which is manifested in his works.

The exhibition will feature approximately forty works of the artist - sculpted reliefs 2000s, as well as large graphic sheets 1970-1990s. Most of these works will be exhibited for the first time.

Exhibition curator: Tamara Vegova

Gallery "HERE"
Gallery complex "Artifact"
St. Prechistenka, 30/2
26 March - 17 April

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Specially for the exhibition and anniversary Gallery Tamara Vekovoi launched the website of Boris Kocheyshvili http://www.kocheishvili.ru/
The site has not only work

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(nice to see on the website of artist things hanging on the walls of your house)

, but poetry, texts and photo archive of the artist.