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Bob Koshelokhov :
1. Red sun, canvas /oil , 47 x 50.5 cm , 2012
2 . "Abstraction " , oil on canvas /oil, 50 x 48 cm , 2012

Art and Life by B.N.Koshelohovu

" Critics who question the value of B.N.Koshelohova , we recommend to pay attention to the neon sign " TITAN " on the corner of the house and foundry along Nevsky Prospekt, where the artist lives "

"Titan" - now the same legendary label as the whole image of Boris Nikolayevich Koshelokhov , of whom there are written and oral traditions . Perhaps anticipating just such a role in the history of modern art and artistic life of St. Petersburg, called B.N.Koshelohov rallied around him in 1976, a group of artists with " Chronicle " . It is known that teaches the art B.N.Koshelohov aphorisms. They allow you to interpret it as a fusion of artistic outlook stagnation in native Russian sense of the word ( in Russia verb " stagnate " to describe the course of historical time from front to back , from the future into the past, where there was the main event of all time - a phenomenon the Savior ) and the heroic vanguard. "Artist - chronicler , he has yet to fix , but a picture is necessary to write , how to squeeze pimples or bob on the corner - that the head was covered in blood ." Spontaneous archaism B.N.Koshelohova manifested , in particular, and that , once in Italy in 1978, he took modernism 1910 -20 -ies as a rarity , and manpower recognized in Roman stones , columns, roads , placers locks , feeling how little we differ from the ancients, because " the same questions : what is love , no matter whether you are going to a gig or flying in a jet plane ."
   

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But here we are ahead for the story: here are some details of the biography B.N.Koshelohova . He was born in 1942 in the industrial Urals city of Zlatoust , a child repeatedly ran away from home , choose a profession in 16 years was due to this same passion to the will, and therefore - Travel : I wanted to go to the railway school , then a military , to the company drivers , but because it was already equipped , went to Electromechanics . Some time as an electrician on ships sailed home port of Odessa , then returned to Chrysostom, and graduated from the 11th class . To choose to live on, in the company of two friends pointed to a map (eyes were tied ) , and went straight into the city of Leningrad , and came to in 1962. Enrolled at the Medical Institute , where there was one group of East German - a connoisseur of existentialism : organized a study group texts of Kierkegaard , Heidegger , Jaspers , Camus , at the same reading of Husserl . Interest in philosophy at B.N.Koshelohova seven years , and he came through accidental circumstances : if a child older brother, his friend Yura Kisluhina , a philosopher , a student of University of Sverdlovsk slipped boys first Nietzsche , Dostoevsky and then . Until 1974 Koshelokhov , in his own words , only did I read . Currently B.N.Koshelohova property consists of paintings , sculptures and pastels , stylish black coffee maker company Krupp , similar to the machine tool , and stacks of the same works of Heidegger and Kierkegaard on the windowsill near the sofa . An exclusive love Koshelokhov philosophical books eyewitnesses Timur Novikov says that during the " Annals " repeatedly met BN on the street with Helvetius armpit. In the " Saigon" at Koshelokhov was nicknamed " The philosopher " because he usually conversed with visitors, explaining to them the nature of things by means of negation, ( saying, for example , a spoon - not a spoon and a cup - not a cup , as it hero did zen story Salinger " Teddy " who wanted to explain to children that the grass - grass is , and the word "grass" - a word and nothing else) . It is this zen - Socratic Koshelokhov practice led to the most important event of his life: a meeting with the teacher , artist Valery Clover (real name it was Clover and Clover - artistic name in conjunction with the nickname ) . Once, in 1974, " Saigon " man came and asked the Philosopher . It was Volodya Poletaev passionate admirer of religious philosophy and future party " Annals ." The first conversation Poletaeva Koshelokhov and continued for three days , after a while Poletaev Koshelokhov told about his other friend, unsociable . Koshelokhov met him - his name was Valery Clover, and despite all the talk about miscommunication Clover together they immediately went hitchhiking in typical Leningrad hippskih 1970 pilgrimage to the Monastery of the Caves to the abbot , Father Alipio iconographer .

Paintings Clover professional decorator , is a political sur perhaps a social art , and they are not impressed Koshelokhov , but addressed to him the words : "You - the artist ." Clover did not explain Koshelokhov art does not teach his profession , but gave him the image, thus prohibiting paint colors and creating thus a kind of zen pereklinku brains . Koshelokhov thus formulated the principle of Modern Art , commonly known in the West in Boyce : "Everyone - the artist , the artist does not necessarily have anything to be able to spoil something , to see - the main thing , and wonder ." Following the path of contemporary art in the late 1950s - 60s , discovered the real thing as an artistic tool , invented Koshelokhov " concepts " - the composition of the garbage found things ( first plastically interesting trophy was an old stump , which the artist describes the words "live dust " has become another pillar of the machines Singer ) . One of these assemblages Koshelokhov built in 1976 by ​​attaching to the base of the chamber pot and above the hospital duck. Product called " exclamation " and his fate was quite dissident : BN was the only artist with his work has come down to the point of organizing an exhibition in honor of the deceased Eugene Rukhin - policemen pohvatali other protesters , who , of course, carried a picture, missed Koshelokhov not distinguishing the artist in him . Clover once came to him and said, " Bob , drop everything and go to the painting ." As he assumes B.N.Koshelohov , Clover gave him advice , not particularly thinking , but Koshelokhov seen in these words revelation : November 2, 1975 he wrote his first oil painting - still life with transparent hat under which clearly read tracings icons. Paints were borrowed from Poletaeva and things in his room were the first picturesque scenes Koshelokhov who furiously rewrote everything he could in the interior, and the degree of his paintings caused a host mystical horror . " Bob, you strangled me ," - said Poletaev inspecting colorful images of their property.

Koshelokhov felt at the level of color painting : "There must be something alive : red must live with blue , I'm 32 years old, - he says - was stunned when I learned how to get the green paint ." This sense of expressionistic painting became the most important personal experience Koshelokhov that he was able to communicate to others . In 1976 he emigrated Clover and so gave BN feel that this orphanage , but freedom too. Koshelokhov organized the " Chronicle " , whose charter is extreme : members of the group gathered on Fridays from each other, to talk about the painting, the meetings allowed only those who have had recent pictures (they still wet , devoutly dragged to the meeting through the expressionists town ) . Koshelokhov had the idea to combine expressionism, fauvism and Dadaism together. "Painting is self-contained and boundless - he says - and run, both runners , each his distance , we must by nature , bird flies , and flies like - ask : fall , all artists can be divided into two groups: those who create a palette canvas , calling in co-creation ( I viewer - the same thing) , and those who make a palette palette craft provides for creativity , locked away from the viewer . " In 1977-78 Koshelokhov continued to paint , using brush and ink and later moved to the spatula and large canvases . As the stretchers were different items found in the trash - the frame of a bed or sofa , etc. Canvases easily served carpets .

In 1978 Koshelokhov committed an act greatly contributed to accelerated fouling his figure legends : he married an Italian woman named Luciana Gironde - Viraldi solemn wires and after May 19 went to live in Italy. In those years the departure abroad amounted to a journey to the next world , in fact, with the intonation and friends farewell departing . What was the total shock when September 6 Koshelokhov returned to Leningrad and became the first and only native of the underworld . In his own words , he decided not to change the iron cage of gold. Meeting with the motherland was tough . Koshelokhov barely managed to get a temporary residence permit . He worked in the protection Lenmetrostroya . Friendship with superintendents promote the employment of wooden sculpture ( shift supervisor helped Koshelokhov cut tree , prompted where to get cloth for painting ) . Almost the whole sculpture , however, died as a result of homelessness and vagabond lifestyle artist. Koshelokhov But I must say, never felt disenfranchised : it drew life where big and dirty city , where " spit , swear , fight, write" ; where loitering on the streets , "it is possible to sketch their feet."

Koshelokhov gravitated to work in large series of paintings and sculptures . In 1992 he started to build superproduct composed of thousands ( 31 December 1999 the number had reached six thousand one hundred and twenty five) pastels . Generally increased productivity , batch and speed manufacturing works - the main features of contemporary artists , we recall Picasso or Warhol , or Kabakov.

From our conversation : " I'm going out for an hour and a half and come back to finish. " - "Go , go, - responsible BN - And I'm still five pastelek do it."

You can also cite the example of a younger contemporary and participant group " New Artists " Valery Cherkasov. Once Cherkasov and Timur Novikov came to visit Koshelokhov . Boris showed them 20 new paintings. What Cherkasov noticed that recently finished a five hundred works. " Maybe invite to see? " - Asked BN " They have me with him ," - said Cherkasov , taking from his pocket a bar of soap , drag rezinochkoy . In a soap really was a pile of small pictures .

Global project called "Two Highways", which suggests two ways of mystical movement lives, souls , bodies, thought forms : on the ground and above the ground, and specifically from the south of Europe to Alaska , and from there to America and then across the Atlantic to Europe again . The idea of ​​movement , art, as transmission energy pulse , life in a moving experience is very important for Koshelokhov . That " inescapably interesting: man as an open system , the amount of energy entering the system , more than anything coming out ; what is behind this? Call it God or ... " Behind this name stands must be concrete and painting - Trieste motorway Palermo , twelve rows to one side, the mountains on a sunny valley in the afternoon, under the sheaves of traffic lights at night : Koshelokhov done this way for Citroen alone committing anarchy escape from the golden Italian house , where he had previously left and not so far as to draw your pastels, read and drink under the olive trees .

Description of art and life to do now allows Koshelokhov unmistakable conclusion that Koshelokhov in the 1970s was closer than any other to what is called modern art. Over time, the innate qualities have not changed Koshelokhov . On the contrary , he found , despite the anarchic life , extreme constancy of his aesthetic views . However, his paintings over the years, the temperature changes . His work has become more concise , paint getting cold , oledenevaet line , shape acquire firmness that he himself explains cold liability because "freedom - not libertines ." This resembles the icy chill freedom fun immortal novel Hesse " Steppenwolf " - Bible Leningrad 1970 . In this painting Koshelokhov not lose its physiological , ie life measurement. Her images like sprouts as " kids " , subtly connected with the plastic of the artist , I want to say , with his bone , shape of the frontal lobes , the structure of the hands , with the texture of the few important things like chess pieces deserved that Koshelokhov not alienate themselves from on par with the art ; with whom he entered the history of art, rigidly following the motto of the ancient Romans - warriors and philosophers - omnia mea mecum porte. ( Ekaterina Andreeva )