ALEXANDER KOSENKOV - RU 1959 Born in Ekimchan Amur region (The Russian Far East). 1984 Studied at the studio of <strong>art</strong>ist Natalia Chizhik in Novosibirsk (until 1998). 1995 The first p<strong>art</strong> 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. Er<strong>art</strong>a 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 <strong>art</strong> galleries Er<strong>art</strong>a, FACTORY-ART <strong>gallery</strong> TURN ON, TUNE IN! pag. 28 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», <strong>art</strong> 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 <strong>art</strong>ists. Leuven, Ghent, Overayze, Hasselt, Tienen, Antwerp, Karlsruhe (Belgium). The works are in collections Museum of Contemporary Art «Er<strong>art</strong>a», 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 <strong>art</strong> and Russian avant-garde <strong>art</strong>, 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 p<strong>art</strong>icular 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
ALEXANDER KOSENKOV - RU Title: Barge in Paris city, 2012 technique: oil on canvas size: 80x80 cm FACTORY-ART <strong>gallery</strong> TURN ON, TUNE IN! pag. 29
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