Victor I. Kostin — talented Moscow artist. The beginning of his career fell on 1970-е years, when many artists tried to identify itself in the General stream of contemporary art. He participated in the apartment exhibitions of nonconformist artists, worked as a graphic artist. The first creative experiments took place in 1970-80-е and ran parallel with the development of a vivid poetic directions in the literature, called metarealism.

the experience appeared in the later period of creativity. In the paintings of the artist figure becomes the basis for a compositional canvas. He explores the problem of human existence in the modern city. While his paintings like Bruegel paintings are populated with images, details, multi-valued symbols. This is the research aspect of the artist's work: he sees the world with maniacal meticulousness and it captures a universal essence is the same... meticulous and peculiar manner of writing, neat and thorough. The artist meticulously processes the surface of the canvas, achieving an almost photographic precision.

his painting style is deeply individual. The I. Kostin has a special property to display the existing reality and sees it on-своему. The artist's works are based on real observations, but in the paintings they transformirovalsya into a new reality, become an element of generalization. Often, a private, specific episode, it brings to the typical extent of the phenomenon. This is evident in such works as "Night", "Spitting".

His work is not only filled with irony, the grotesque, but also contain a social aspect. Notable for his canvas "the table" where the table sits the "walking company". The picture is very multivalued, who-то seems that it is happening at the memorial table, but the main thing here — characters, each busy with his business: who is-то's talking to who-то eats who-то bowed his head on the table asleep, a small child left to himself. The artist represents the scene as one of the paradoxical sides of everyday life. His paintings are witty, phantasmagorical, and sometimes sarcastic.

Works by Victor Kraposhin — is a panorama of life in modern society, which has everything: humor, tragedy, and drama, and joy. His work is full of allegorical symbols, they — like a maze to comprehend, decipher.

I. Kostin explores the world. To awaken the ability to think, to force the viewer to think, to find the internal relationship depicted in the story — in this-то is the layering and ambiguity of the artist.

Alexei Smirnov