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ALEXANDER KOSENKOV - RU
1959 Born in Ekimchan Amur region (The Russian Far
East).
1984 Studied at the studio of artist Natalia Chizhik in
Novosibirsk (until 1998).
1995 The first part in the exhibitions: «Hamburg score-
95». Gallery «Green Pyramid».
Since 2007 member of the «Free Culture» Society, St
Petersburg.
Since 2010 member of the Union of Russian Artists.
Personal and selected group exhibitions
2012 «Farewell to the Old World?», personal. Erarta
Galleries Zurich.
2012 «PRIMAVERA», personal. Gallery «2 Suvorov»,
Novokuznetsk.
2011 Personal. ERARTA Galleries ― TEN43 New York.
2011 «MAMA ROMA», Association named Petrov-
Vodkin*. Novosibirsk.
2011 «Red Prospect», zonal exhibition. Museum of Art,
Novosibirsk.
2011 «Dudes on Chumikan», personal. Museum
of Contemporary Art and art galleries Erarta,
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St.Petersburg.
2011 «Silver gate», personal. Gallery KINO, Moscow.
2010 International competition ArtPreview-2010
(winner), Gallery KINO, Moscow.
2009 «Altai drive», personal. Gallery «Banderol»,
Barnaul.
2009 «Siberian telescope», personal. Gallery Kadieff,
Helsinki (Finland).
2009 VI Novosibirsk International Biennale. Museum of
Art, Novosibirsk.
2009 «Ark», art project. Russian Cultural Centre,
Helsinki (Finland).
2009 «Siberia, dog, dot, ru», personal. Krasnoyarsk
Museum Center.
2008 «Siberia-Х», zonal exhibition. Museum of Art,
Novosibirsk.
2008. «Interior with skis», personal. Gallery «Siberian
masters», Novosibirsk.
2007 «Hamburg score-2006». Museum of Art,
Novosibirsk.
2007 «Gouache 2 O». Gallery of the Generations Fund,
Khanty-Mansiysk.
2006 «Letters from Novo, letters to Novo»,
Kunststation Kleinsassen, Fulda (Germany).
2006 «Gorbunki are landing», Association named
Petrov-Vodkin*. Krasnoyarsk.
2005 «DIALOG No 2», personal. Galerie Stricker,
Aachen (Germany).
2005 «Niurka», personal. Gallery CHERNOFF,
Novosibirsk.
2004 «Fall back», Association named Petrov-Vodkin*.
Gallery P-10, St.Petersburg.
2002 «Tengri-Umai 2002», Art Festival. Kosteev’s
Museum, Almaty (Kazakhstan).
2000 «The joy of being», Association named Petrov-
Vodkin*. Museum of Art, Tomsk.
1999 I Novosibirsk International Biennale. Museum of
Art, Novosibirsk.
1998 Personal exhibition. Gallery House of Scientists,
Novosibirsk (Akademgorodok)
1998-2004 «Unknown Russia». Exhibition of 12
Siberian artists. Leuven, Ghent, Overayze, Hasselt,
Tienen, Antwerp, Karlsruhe (Belgium).
The works are in collections
Museum of Contemporary Art «Erarta», St.Petersburg;
State Museum «Tsarskoe Collection», St.Petersburg;
Museum of Nonconformist Art, St.Petersburg;
Novosibirsk State Art Museum;
Tomsk Regional Museum of Art;
Novokuznetsk Art Museum
Krasnoyarsk Museum Center;
Gallery House of Scientists, Novosibirsk
(Akademgorodok).
In private collections.
*) Association of Free Artists named «Bathing the Red
Horse» of Petrov-Vodkin»
Artist statement
The nature of my painting is based on a dense and
resonant mixing French art and Russian avant-garde
art, the poetics of «Jack of Diamonds» on the free
picturesque St. Petersburg romantic expressionism. It
is very important to create a special tension between
the emphasis prosaic subjects of the paintings and the
color and compositional energy, which should occur on
the canvas. I do not do copying landscape or still life.
For me, it is important to see the space-time, to create
a self-contained world-in-themselves, to tell a story. It
is always present, even in plotless works. To do this,
looking at daily life, which otherwise seem mundane
and boring, see the archetypal features of the world, to
detect plastic formulas and color harmony, to find formal
and semantic rhythms, to create a local story common
themes of life in a given Euclidean space. And then there
is a particular attraction life dark and bright patches of
color on the canvas, and the interaction of divergent
lines, which are due to my own «non-Euclidicity» easily
and naturally can intersect at infinity, even though their
apparent parallelism of the original ...
Alexander Kosenkov