Personal exhibition of Boris Kocheyshvili the Literary Museum The House Ostroukhova "opens March 11

March 11 at 18:00 at the State Literary Museum "House Ostroukhova (Trubnikovsky per., 17) will host an exhibition of Boris Kocheyshvili" Identities and reflection. "

BORIS KOCHEYSHVILI girlfriend. 1970 Coated Paper, ink. 70 x 62

Boris Kocheyshvili - Moscow artist and poet. He was born in 1940 in the town of Elektrostal, in 1962 he graduated from the Moscow Art School in memory of 1905. Exhibited since 1963. His works are in the State Tretyakov Gallery, State Russian Museum, Pushkin Museum. Pushkin and others, as well as in private collections in Russia and abroad. The artist lives and works in Moscow .

BORIS KOCHEYSHVILI portrait of Fazil Iskander Source: archive of the artist

BORIS KOCHEYSHVILI Portrait of Henry Sapgir Source: archive of the artist

The exhibition "Identities and reflection" in the Literary Museum for the first time the public will be shown so many drawings and sketches on which the artist depicted his friends - people from the world of art, film and theater, an extensive series are portraits of the poets of recent decades.

in acutely and characteristically drawn characters Boris Kocheyshvili easily find Henry Sapgir, Fazil Iskander, Dmitry Prigov , Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, Inna Churikova and many others. The most successful of the full-scale drawings by the artist selected and folded into a cardboard box for ... forty years! In preparation for the exhibition of about a hundred pictures of this treasure have been selected and displayed on these persons recognized. At the exhibition, these small masterpieces will form an exposition of the first hall.

BORIS KOCHEYSHVILI Portrait of Ina Chourikova Source: archive of the artist

The exhibition will be presented to the artist's graphic works, which brought him fame back in the distant eighties (coated paper /ink /stiff brush), collages, reliefs and a large collection of paintings by Boris Kocheyshvili. All these works are directly related to the topic of literature and poetry, a theme which has always played such an important role in his life and work.

BORIS KOCHEYSHVILI Three Women. 1988 Oil, canvas. 123 x 130 Source: archive of the artist

curator Tamara Vekhova sought to convey to the audience the wonderful chain of transformations, which were employed and the models and images created by the artist. Retaining the characteristic features of the models, but placed in a new mise en scene, the images received an unexpected role and become parties harákternyh and nothing on similar scene-painting.

Last year the artist was not only the anniversary - master was 70 years old, but very rewarding: there are many new works, the exhibitions of paintings and graphics, published the first personal folder "Boris Kocheyshvili. Graphics Paintings relief "where the artist's works are complemented by his poems and a short essay, and finally, a selection of poems by Boris Kocheyshvili saw the light in the two-volume" Anthology of Russian Poetry 1950-2000 years. "(Moscow, 2010). The exhibition continues in the Literary Museum him a number of these remarkable and enjoyable for the artist and all admirers of his talent events.

exhibition runs from March 12 to April 2, 2011.

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