Koteshov Kirill
Born in 1983 in Kemerovo.
Kemerovo artist, a graduate of the Stieglitz Academy. Stieglitz. Creates industrial landscapes, transformed in accordance with the author's special philosophy into futuristic images of the city. Uses Kuzbasslak - coal tar, which refers to the industrial context of the small motherland.
EDUCATION
- 2007 - Graduated from Mukhin Academy of Arts in St.Petersburg.
- 2004-2008 - St.Petersburg State Academy of Art and Industry named after Mukhina. Faculty of Monumental and Decorative Art, workshop of O.I. Kuznetsov.
Lives and works in St. Petersburg.
"The Tree of Life" is a complex image that exists in various cultures and is one of the monumental symbols of life, the planet and all living things. Kirill Koteshov reinterprets this image in the form of a large pictorial installation, enveloping the entire space and completely absorbing our visual perception.
The monumental pictorial installation that was created at the Russian Museum for the exhibition "Actual Drawing" really combines monumental painting, which practically passes into a painting of a wall. The painting is of such a high quality that it gives the impression of the work of old masters, nevertheless the theme of the Tree of Life and its realization by Kirill Koteshov remain topical today.
In Kirill Koteshov's work the tree is formed by intertwining human figures, their bodies touching and joining each other, creating a sense of the crown of a tree, a monolithic mass moving upwards and uniting all being into a single connection. The bodies are devoid of faces, gender, individual attributes, but they are physically perfect, perfect and identical. The figures support each other, make each other bend, move, assume certain poses - but all together they form a single chain of being, a life taking shape, a mass that seems indestructible.
PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS
- 2008 - "Three Days", Triumph Gallery, Moscow
- 2008 - "The Last Snow", Globus Gallery, Saint Petersburg
- 2008 - "UNDER GROUND", Manezh, Small Hall, Saint Petersburg.
- 2007 - Parallel Kuzbass, Triumph Gallery, Moscow
- 2007 - Academy of Arts and Design.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- 2014 - "Austerity and Beauty", Ural Vision Gallery, Ekaterinburg, Russia
- 2010 - "Futorology", Garage, Moscow
- 2009 - Krasnoyarsk Biennale, Krasnoyarsk
- 2009 - "Topology of Happiness", Zarizino Architectural Museum, Moscow
- 2009 - Russian Beauty, Moscow
- 2009 - Europe Art Fair 2009
- 2009 - Art Basel Selection
- 2008 - "Santa Claus Alive", Triumph Gallery, Moscow
- 2008 - Kandinsky Prize, Central House of Artists, Moscow
- 2008 - "Death.net", Victoria Art Gallery, Samara
- 2008 White Space Gallery, London.
- 2008 - ART Factory, Ekaterinburg
- 2008 - ART Moscow 2008, Triumph Gallery
- 2008 - "The inventory" An arena, the Small hall, St.-Petersburg
- 2008 - "Memory of Times" Etazhi Loft Project, St Petersburg
- 2008 - Festival "Sneggary", Kemerovo
- 2007 - Gallery "Studio 2" Modern Art Center "Winery", Moscow
- 2006 - ART-status, Kemerovo
- 2005-2006 - "Nutcracker", Exhibition ", the hall of the State Theatre of Opera and Ballet of the St.Petersburg Conservatory
- 2002 - "Work of the Year", Kemerovo
Works
Koteshov Kirill
FROM THE SERIES "RESTORATION OF PARADISE", 2022
Canvas, acrylic, bituminous varnish
315 х 200 см
