"Valery Koshlyakov. Roman Prisoner -- or lifting work"
ARTinvestment.RU   07 июня 2018

The exhibition, which opens June 9 in the Tretyakov gallery on Krymsky Val, will be presented 8 large-scale works Koshlyakov early 1990-х, painted with tempera, gouache, watercolor, sauce and charcoal on pieces of corrugated cardboard

the State Tretyakov gallery
9 Jun — on August 12 2018
Moscow, Krimsky Val, 10, hall 38

"...Roman prisoner..." — special project, organized in the framework of the program "the Tretyakov gallery opens the storages", which gives the opportunity to show rarely exhibited works and to significantly Supplement the permanent exhibitions of the Museum from different periods.

At this time, your project is contemporary art Department, the funds of which store over 10,000 Museum objects. It works, mostly done in non-traditional techniques and materials, challenging the storage and exhibition. Therefore, each displaying exhibits from this part of the collections of the Gallery — significant event and a lot of work for curators and conservators.

Valery Koshlyakov (1962) — painter, graphic artist, author of installations, one of the most prominent representatives of the generation of artists who rise to the art-сцену the wave of "perestroika" in the late 1980-х years. In the collection of the Museum houses a representative body of works Koshlyakov — about 70 pictorial compositions, graphic works, installations (total 240 units). But after 1990-х years of his works on corrugated Board almost did not appear in the Tretyakov gallery, and some even left the store. This is partly due to a special, fragile equipment large-scale compositions, tempera, gouache, watercolor, sauce, charcoal on torn, glued tape in packaging boxes made of corrugated cardboard. "Runnerbeast" painting — the major plastic technique Koshlyakov, which greatly enriches the figurative and semantic structure of the work. The artist approached him in the early 1990-х. According to Koshlyakov, the viewer's eye needs to interact with "live" surface: "Matt, fresco, which is lost, and then again recorded".

For the special "Romance...the prisoner..." decided to get from the store and to provide the public of the works of this important modern artist. A special project hosted in the hub hall of the Museum, continues a series of permanent exhibition of art of the late twentieth century and introduces the exhibition "the Art 2000-х".

Despite the small number (eight large-format works), "...a Roman prisoner..." — is a powerful scenic energy and expressiveness of artistic expression screening. Large composition consist of many fragments (in the exposition exhibit 72), who closely and carefully collected on plane and create a very convincing image of the Roman squares, ancient ruins, embankments and canals of Venice. The works are mainly dedicated to the heritage of "classical" Italy, which until the mid-2000-х, while the artist was there, Koshlyakov was only a dream. "Italy, like the rest of the classics were an important source for my topic. The main thing was that it was completely portrait and not a sketch from nature that influenced my figurative language. In Italy for the first time I got only 12 years later [after the establishment of the first works on this subject], and of course,real had nothing to do with those black-белыми pictures in the books I loved from-за that they have created a special world in me and gave the freedom of speculation and fantasies".

Themes of reality and delusion, dreams about the Beauty of — most important in the work of Koshlyakov. The artist's work with "junk" material, raw material, draws the viewer into one of the main since the middle Ages motifs in European painting —vanitas, Vanitas, the transience of life.

are presented In the exhibition "Venice. A large lagoon" (1991), "Battle of lions with a leopard" (1991), "Rome. The Capitol" (1992), "Night fountain in Rome" (1992), "Kapitel" (1992), "horse's Head" (1992), "Colonnade" (1991-1993), the "Reichstag" (1994). They were created in the legendary art studios in "the house in Trekhprudny", the attic of which was for the artist and important exhibition space. It is from the workshop in Trekhprudny lane work on the cardboard was transferred by the author Andrei Erofeev — the first curator of the state collection of contemporary art, which in the early 2000-х became part of the collection of the Tretyakov gallery. The second group of pictorial compositions donated by the author to the Museum in 2012.

the name of the special gave the name to the first major articles about the work of Valery Koshlyakov, written by Sergey Epigynum and Alexandra Obukhova for the directory, published in 1992 by Marat Gelman Gallery. Viewers of the special project offers the opportunity to see the artist's works are accompanied by accurate and in-depth review of this article.

Source: press-релиз GTG