Today in the press center of the publishing house “Izvestia” will be a presentation of a book on the artist's Seeds Kozhina, and the opening of his solo exhibition

Today, 26 August, at 18.00 in the press center of the publishing house «Izvestia» (Pushkinskaya Sq., 5) will be a presentation of a book on the artist's work Seeds Kozhina (series« painters », publishing house« White Town »), and the opening of his solo exhibition, which conducts gallery« Game imagination ».

Semen Kozhin was born in Moscow in 1979. He graduated from the Moscow Academic Art Lyceum (1990), Rossiyskuyu Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (2004), Member of Moscow Union of Artists (2009), a member of the International Arts Fund (2009). He likes the Russian realist school, a graduate of Russia Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, he tends to absolute fidelity in the depiction of reality. Artist's wide range of interests: historical painting, portrait, still life, landscape, illustration. His unusual approach to each new canvases, no formulas, no typical.

Thus, among the masters of landscape, there are documentary images that capture the architectural motifs, and vivid, airy, harmonious forms of nature, and philosophical, full of deep meaning songs. Despite the diversity of these landscapes characteristic in common: Kozhin tries not only to convey the impression from what he saw, but experience it, to find and reflect the knowledge of nature, to create her intellectual portrait. His landscapes are analytic, for their perception requires gaze and serious contemplation.

The portraits show love to the puzzle and research interest psychologist, and they can also trace the relationship between the historical paintings of the artist. Here there is the same thorough approach to detail and the same decoration, but also the epic. From his childhood fascinated by history, painter devoted much time reading ancient authors, it captivated Suetonius and Plutarch, Seneca and Euripides. In the motifs of Russian history the artist deliberately leaves of particulars, seeking universal human traits. Poetry narrative rhythm unites the work of the young author with works by masters of Russian school of historical painting in all their diversity.

artist believes that «the moral principles of the author define the artistic language of the picture (its formal side) and its inner meaning (content). The style of realistic painting, enriched by the finds of Impressionism, Pointillism, Cubism, can convey the diversity of thoughts and sensations caused by the reality. The reality is so multifaceted that any concept - it is only one of its face ».

Regardless of genre, which made this or that work in the works Seeds Kozhina overall feel for the younger generation of artists of the Russian realist school striving for harmony in the capacious, visual image, to the grace of a Renaissance understanding of eternal and unattainable ideal.

Success artist's many exhibitions in Russia and abroad (and exhibited artist started in the period of study in high school), published in various journals indicate the demand for creative, original talent and extraordinary diligence. Perhaps due to this rare combination of Semen Kozhina will transform the world around us, to make it lighter and even for a fraction closer to perfection.

The exhibition runs until September 19, 2009.

Sources: Press Release, kozhinart.com