Boris Kocheyshvili. Life in Art

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I turned up here by the arm article Yuri milk

Yuri?
I know Nicholas.

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Yuri?
I know Nicholas.

Nicholas is one of the sons of that, now deceased.
Yuri Milk - art historian, a great expert on the art books and book illustration, for that matter, and in general on the timetable.

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Yuri's father Nicholas milk is milk, a remarkable art critic, was a prominent researcher of book graphics.

 Here, found his obituary from Literaturnaya gazeta:

IN MEMORY OF YURI MILK
Vladimir Glotser
Died brilliant connoisseur of the national book art, whose name was known to all those involved in the last half-century art books - Yuri Milk. He died a few days after his 71 th birthday, referable to 2 nd August.
It is now evident, Yuri managed to do in fact quite a lot of favorites, though, seemed to be plotting their ideas painfully long. Two excellent books devoted to Vladimir Konashevich, inclusive folio of Vladimir Tabor and unique edition - only on his "Lay," the fundamental fact of literary and artistic heritage of Nicholas Kupreyanova, a wonderful catalog of the old children's book (with others) ... Many articles about artists past and present.
However, no amount of printed surprises us made in art Yuri milk, and high flavor, well balanced, magnitude judgments, thoroughness and depth of study of artistic material. He judged the artists on the Hamburg score, and therefore his opinion as considered in the artistic environment - regardless of age and generation. Mark "The edition prepared Yuri Milk" was a guarantee that work brilliantly constructed and commented.
We can say that he is one of the very few lifted high the banner of book art and artists in general, serving him in particular. "Milk said ..."," human milk is that ... "- has always been the highest rating.
When he wrote, he is not confined within the fine arts, and boldly went on the field of literary criticism, feeling the book as a unity of illustrations and text.
He stood at the origins of the beautiful series of "The Art Book" and was the originator and editor of its first releases. In the early 90's he organized the "Graphic seasons" in the halls of the Union of Artists on Gorky Street, 25, and thus drew attention to the most talented.
And indeed, there was a better organizer of book exhibitions, as Yuri Milk. Submit a book that she again impressed the audience, no one could like it. Let us recall the publisher of the exhibition "Academia", the old children's book in the Museum of flat-ID IDSytin or in the Literary Museum in Trubnikov, the iconography of the exhibition of Anna Akhmatova, the poet's image, the image of poetry, "or show" Letter to Bulgakov "... On his talent to create the exposure known visitors to the exhibitions in Russia and abroad.
He was truly the king of the artistic conversation - no matter whether it took place personally or by telephone. Fortunately, many managed to enjoy the company of Yuri milk and talking with him.
The death of Yury Alexandrovich was a surprise to those who knew him - he was burned in less than a month. And just any one week did not live before the release of his latest book - "Pushkin in 1937: Materials and Research on the iconography, finished recently.
The name of Yuri milk will remain in our art among very dear to us.

© "Literary Gazette, 2000

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Tamara, thanks.
And enlightened and good man remembered.

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Nick is one of the sons of late.
Yuri Milk - art historian, a great expert on the art books and book illustration, for that matter, and in general on the timetable.

And remembering what you recently?

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Tamara, thanks.
And enlightened and good man remembered.

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And you recently recalled what?

Himself.
For me "icon of style.

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For three days I look .
I wanted to just write about his admiration, but I think, no, wait - with you how many times has this been - for the first superficial knowledge - a complete delight, and then begin to seek out "lice" and sometimes just cool.
No.
It turned out not the case!
The enthusiasm of the work, the joy of full adoption - a rare event for me. When an artist like everything - all technology, all periods, all the quests. Even the cardboard does not bother you.
It is, of course - should make allowance for the fact that Tamara has made a great job - made a professional selection, and fix something inevitably too much, letting my eye "lazy" and not to catch flaws (oh, I confess, favorite pastime: shy < ! - ~ 1 ~ -> grouped, allowing a rest and my brain. And left me nothing but joy and pleasure.

Thank you, Tamara!
I feel grateful, and even some envy "because you all this now, hands touching, you can see without glasses, from place to place interchanges. Do not see the screen. And not even in the exhibition, and alone with all this, ehhh, where my 17 years, I have come poshshupatvse this Ruchenko


Remarkable artist!
And doubly wonderful for me because previously I had never heard about him and his work has not seen - for a special thank you. There must be a middle-aged and from many small joys of art-ustavsheko .

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Pier, Thank you very much for your kind words!
How pleasant it is when people, especially professionals
share your enthusiasm and inspiring and energizing the work of your favorite artist!
How important is this support for the artists themselves, and for those who, through their hard work attracted to each other, reconciles and adjusts the artist and his work with the often indifferent and harsh realities of life outside. (Well, sort of like me ...: shy

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Inspired by such a luxurious product recall, probably will continue ...

Filmed, finally, a very interesting series of charts Boris Kocheyshvili. I have it conditionally called "names". In these studies observed a very interesting subject compound word, its meaning, its sound with the lettering and the architectural associations of these words ... I understand that the word is the same as the architecture "built from the bricks of the letters. Bricks are the same, but the words are different. And their images are different. And when connecting the names of people, then here are pluses have specific historical characters, which probably consisted of the instigators of these graphic sheets, not to mention that the audience immediately arise association with their friends persoonazhami and start comparing - do not seem to like ... Vobschem much here just ponameshano such semantics and mythology, that nothing could make out, and can only watch.

For practitioners: technology, again favorite coated paper /ink, 62 * 70, 1990-ies.
These works participated in the exhibition B. Kocheyshvili in the House of Architects in 1990, some year.

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But a funny story, and the names, by the way

         "It was somewhere in the 61-62 year. I was in college in 1905 with Natasha Khrennikov, daughter of the composer Tikhon Nikolayevich Khrennikov, and as it was invited to a birthday party at Natasha's parent's apartment. There were three or four boys, selected by the grounds whether beauty, or talent.
          The door opened a beautiful, American kind and friendly lady called itself Clara Arnoldovna. As well, I thought, a rare name, it will be easy to remember, when it comes to say goodbye. I remember a huge grand piano, on which lay all sorts of papers, books, music, and was a huge jug of home-Georgian wine, a gift of some of the Georgian composer. Another memorable boss himself - a smiling, benevolent, whose music I knew was five years old when in 1945 he lived with his father an officer in the town of Eberswalde near Berlin, and where to come for a tour of the Red Army from the theater play "A long time ago." Dad took me to play in a small baroque theater, and all the time I explained something. He said, for example, that the horse on which sat a slender girl cavalry is not theater, but from my father's part, and the groom was obryazhenny Hussar, too, not an artist, a soldier from the same part that the horse was quieter. I memorized the entire show, was in love with the trooper - a girl, even remember the name of actress Fetisov. I remembered and all the music from the play, it seems for a while sounded from Electrostal loudspeaker.
        In short, I have Khrennikov was warm and cozy, but we still opolovinili huge bottle, feeling a light pink wine lemonade. Drunk very quickly and we decided it is too late intelligently rasklanyatsya. As a sign of incredible gratitude for a wonderful evening, well, I'm pulled the tongue, and I blurted out, standing on the threshold: "Thank you, Sarah Abramovna. Only already starting to utter the name of the hostess, I realized that utter something awful.
        With Tikhon I occasionally bowing when, at the end of life, after the death of Clara Arnoldovna, he moved to my neighborhood. He is very badly seen. I called his name, he shook my hand and said that he remembered me, and that Natasha had told him that turned me into a great artist. I remember how I was glad when I read in Benedict Erofeev: "Do not touch Khrennikov, it is wonderful melodist."

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Now Boris Kocheyshvili full swing preparing for a series of commemorative exhibitions, which will be held in 2010. The first will, as I have already written, Gallery A3 in late March. It turned out that she even has coincided with the birthday of the artist. After April 1 it is 70 years.
      Recently he wrote the text program for the first exhibition.
 
«You do not know what you're capable of.
So find out, do not keep yourself in the tails.
Take the next street, look in a strange impasse.
Try the unknown, but do not forget, do not throw the usual.
 In history, much has been done for you, but most of the beauty you will never see. And if you see, then, most likely, it will be only a fragment or splinter.
 There are endless options for artistic behavior, some of them and reproduced if ever, is it that the rock artists, the aborigines, or the builders of Indian temples.
 
Try to do what you want, and not only that the misfit.
 All the same, what would you do, you stay yourself. »

    At first, I admit, a little flipped ... "The application is loud, but what will come of it" - I thought. "It's hard he probably will. Vsezhtaki on the eve of 70 anniversary of the forces is not so much as it was when it, and before the exhibition have only six weeks. And outside is cold and tiring Moscow winter. Will Boris find strength, inspiration and some inner rage to write a lot of work, an entire exhibition of works - new, different from each other. Will still go one step up the ladder of a drawing of his individual skill.
    I should not have doubted. It took about two weeks, and I saw about ten large works. Very good work, well within the declared program to new and unknown (but even so, of course remaining himself ). So, if we consider that a third of the exhibition will consist of the masterpieces of 2009, yet the public never saw, and hide them obviously does not follow that, I think we will have to work hard, selecting the best.
     I decided to spread a little new work, but it still does not know what can be seen live on the show, and what does not.

         1. Interesting work and a fun story out of its title. I saw it on the second day after creation, and named for himself - "Abundance", the same evening to Boris looked a collector (well, by the way, the local forumchanovskoy publicly known, but let him keep his incognito, Silent ). His work really liked it, and he offered to call her "Sotsgerbary" saying that the composition is very similar to him sprawled on the ears of the emblem of the USSR. In my very clever and it looks like.
          2. The game of rounders. I do not know whether to see a small picture and no-quality, but the thing brutally dynamic. The one who just sat down and swung straight though the air whistling around the stick.
          3. Still Life (big)