Cosmoscow 2024
12-я МЕЖДУНАРОДНАЯ ЯРМАРКА СОВРЕМЕННОГО ИСКУССТВА COSMOSCOW 2024
с 25 октября по 27 октября 2024 г.
АЛЕКСЕЙ МОРОЗОВ, КИРИЛЛ КОТЕШОВ, ОЛЕГ ДОУ, ДИШОН ЮЛДАШ
стенд Б4
Тимирязев центр (Москва, Верхняя аллея, 8)
с 10.00 до 20.00
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На стенде a—s—t—r—a gallery представлены работы Олега Доу, Кирилла Котешова, Алексея Морозова и Дишон Юлдаш.
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Morozov Alexey
Aleksey Morozov began his artistic career in the early 1990s, taking part in the Second Biennial of Contemporary Art in St. Petersburg, where he won one of the Grand Prix of the exhibition. After graduating from the institute, he spent a year in Provence in 1998, where he studied French sculpture from the 16th-18th centuries and practiced working with terracotta.
Born in 1974.
Sculptor, architect, member of the Russian Academy of Arts.
In 1999 he graduated from the Faculty of Sculpture (workshop of academician L. Kerbel) Moscow State Academy of Arts named after Surikov.
Since 2014, member of the Presidium of the RAKh (Russian Academy of Arts).
Aleksey Morozov began his artistic career in the early 1990s, taking part in the Second Biennial of Contemporary Art in St. Petersburg, where he won one of the Grand Prix of the exhibition. After graduating from the institute, he spent a year in Provence in 1998, where he studied French sculpture from the 16th-18th centuries and practiced working with terracotta.
After his return to Russia, Morozov collaborated for a long time with the founder of the New Academy of Fine Arts, and was a member of the New Serious creative movement, a conservative wing of Neo-Academism. He has held solo exhibitions in St. Petersburg, Moscow and Italy and has participated in international art fairs.
In December 2011 - January 2012, the Marble Palace of the Russian Museum hosted a large solo exhibition of Morozov, entitled Antologia, where the artist presented about 60 works created in the previous 10 years.
In July 2013, Alexey Morozov was appointed director of the Moscow State Academic Art School in Memory of 1905. Under his leadership, the reconstruction and renovation of the school began, a new sculpture department was opened, an anatomy department was created to train specialists in plastic anatomy, and Italian internship programs for students were introduced.
He lives and works in Lucca (Italy).
Alexey Morozov's works are sold at Sotheby's, Christie's and Phillips auctions and are in private and museum collections, such as the State Russian Museum, the Museum of the New Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, etc.
"Alexey Morozov is the author of the project PONTIFEX_MAXIMVS, shown at the 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art in 2015. The idea for the project refers back to Raphael's Stanzas of the Vatican, where the master introduced the image of caryatids coming to life, and the frescoes of each room were united by a common plot or character. Animate sculpture is one of the fundamental themes of Alexey Morozov. Throughout his artistic career, Morozov consistently creates a huge art universality, reinterpreting the Greco-Roman classical heritage in the context of modernity. In the artist's opinion, the possibilities of the plastic language of Greek and Roman sculpture, which for so many centuries continued to nourish European civilization, are far from exhausted and can still serve as the basis for creating works with a keenly relevant authorial message. The title PONTIFEX_MAXIMVS - that is, "the great bridge-builder" (from the Latin term pons facere, understood in the esoteric practices of the Romans) verbalizes the idea of restoring the links between antiquity and modernity, the East and the West.
Morozov uses classical iconography, but removes its historical meanings and connotations, giving ideal forms the provocative content of modernity. This is also reflected in the choice of materials: the "classical" ones of bronze and marble, as well as concrete and carbon fiber. The bronze sculptures are made in Pietrasanta, Italy, using techniques based on the ancient tradition of hand craftsmanship. Amidst the kaleidoscope of shifting ethical, moral and aesthetic guidelines of today's world, classical culture and iconography proves to be an important point of reference. In his sculpture, graphics and video, Morozov uses the orderly structure of ancient art to analyze and transcend the chaos of the world. His narrative is transported into a post-apocalyptic, desolate, militaristic space, but offers no unambiguous interpretations or interpretations."
SELECTED EXHIBITION PROJECTS:
- 2024 — Cosmoscow, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow, Russia
- 2024 — EXODUS, Pisa, Italy
- 2024 — St. Petersburg Art Fair “1703”, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Manezh, St. Petersburg, Russia
- 2024 — “Antiquity. Coordinate System”, Zaryadye Media Center, Moscow, Russia
- 2024 — “You are here. Always. Today. The Day After Tomorrow”, Museum of Transport of Moscow, Pavilion 26 ‘Transport of the USSR’, VDNKh, Moscow, Russia
- 2024 — Fair |catalog| April, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow, Russia
- 2023 — Fair |catalog| December, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow, Russia
- 2023 — Cosmoscow, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow, Russia
- 2023 — St. Petersburg Art Fair “1703”, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Manezh, St. Petersburg, Russia
- 2022 — "Art Gardens. Metamorphosis", Arkhangelskoye Estate Museum, Moscow
- 2017 — "PONTIFEX_MAXIMVS/ le stanze", Alexey Morozov Art Project. MMOMA, Moscow
- 2016 — "PONTIFEX_MAXIMVS", Alexey Morozov Art Project. Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, Naples
- 2015 г. "ANTROPOMAHIA," art project by Alexey Morozov. Istanbul Contemporary, Istanbul
- 2015 — "PONTIFEX_MAXIMVS_preview", Alexey Morozov art project. 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. VDNKh, Moscow
- 2015 — "Antropomakhia", Alexey Morozov's art project. Cosmoscow, Moscow
- 2015 — "Cantata_iTunes", Alexey Morozov's art project. Homofarber, CAV, Pietrasanta, Italy
- 2014 — "MOROSOV_MMXIV", Heritage Gallery, Moscow
- 2013 — "ART-STAGE" 11.12 Gallery, Singapore
- 2013 — "KARIATIDA SUPERSONICS" M&O, Paris
- 2013 — "KARIATIDA SUPERSONIKA" Piazza Bra, Verona
- 2012 — "SERENITAS" Art Moscow. Sculpture by Alexey Morozov from private collections, Moscow
- 2011-2012 — "ANTOLOGY" The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
- 2010 — "BASILICA" Art Moscow. Triumph Gallery, Moscow
- 2009 — "PRAETORIA X" Art Moscow. Triumph Gallery, Moscow
- 2007 — "MOROZOV MANUFAKTURING" Moscow World Fair of Fine Arts. Manege, Moscow
- 2006 — "ERIHO" Moscow World Art Fair. Manege, Moscow
- 2004 — "CONSTANTINOPOLIS" ARTPLAY, Moscow
- 2003 — "Kraft Deco Classics" Gallery D137, Saint Petersburg
- 2003 — "Kraft Deco Akademik" Novaya Akademia, Saint Petersburg
- 2002 — "MAGOS", Vicenza, Italy.
- 2000 — "MITRA SUPER" together with New Academy. Manege, Moscow.
- 1992 — "II Biennial of Contemporary Art" Okhtinsky Exhibition Hall of Artists Union of St.Petersburg.
"...Alexey Morozov's work is a kind of bridge between traditional (and paradoxically attractive) ideas of sculpture, harmonious and transparent; and modern ideas of sculpture, which are conceptually analytical and polemical in nature..." Alexander Borovsky, art historian, curator, head of the department of contemporary trends, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg/Russia
"...Integrating it and guiding its transition to modern iconography, not retreating from the hieratic character of historical significance.Integrating it and guiding its transition to modern iconography, not retreating from the hieratic character of historical significance.
Bronze, like other "classical" materials, facilitates this type of experimentation, iconographic "transition" and integration between manual labor and technological intervention.
Morozov, as already mentioned, imposes a syncretic strategy also applied to the use of materials, combining "classical" media with technological materials of an industrial nature, as evidenced by the works on display..." Alessandro Romanini, art historian, president of the scientific committee of the Ragianti Lucca Foundation/Italy
"...Alexey Morozov addresses numerous and varied traditions, combining linguistic and iconographic sources - maintaining a balance between coupling and irony and insinuating bold and unexpected 'distractions' - with intensities, signs and themes of a distinctly contemporary nature, while forcing us to reflect on the need, repeatedly manifested throughout history, to choose past models and express ourselves..." Paolo Giulerini, Curator, Director of the National Archaeological Museum of Naples, Naples/Italy)
ABOUT THE APPROPRIATION PROJECT:
A cycle of three series of works from the EXODUS project:
1. METOPE - painting
2. HDV (heavy duty vehicle)- sculpture. 3. Nuovo Marmo (new marble)
3. Nuovo Marmo (new marble)
The APPROPRIATION project is the artist's reflection on the borrowing through metaphysical substitution of aesthetic and ethical categories occurring in contemporary society. The pragmatic “Modus Operandi” of the actual civilization leaves no room for stylization and reflection in the cultural discourse. The laws of global marketing and the concept of sustainable development fundamentally affect the perception of visual images by the viewer of the early XXI century.
The Doric order's metopes are not Polaroid cards? Or the yellow panel of a quarry truck, executed in the tradition of Hellenistic plastic art? And the marble of the Carrara quarries mimic vinyl and silicone. All this has an undeniable right to exist in the world of the “maxim” of pragmatism.
EXODUS exhibition, Pisa, Italy, 2024
Dou Oleg
Oleg Dou took up photography in 2005 and began combining it with post-processing. He works in various media from digital images and video to sculptures.
Oleg Dou is the pseudonym of artist Oleg Douryagin.
Born in 1983 in Moscow. Graduated from the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys, specializing in economic programming. Since childhood he was interested in art, became interested in creating computer graphics. In 2005 he took up photography and began to combine it with post-processing. He works in various media from digital images and video to sculptures.
Winner of International Photography Awards (2007), International Color Awards (2008) and Arte Laguna Art Prize (Italy, 2009). Nominee of the Kandinsky Prize in 2007 and 2008.
Oleg created a Photoshop cover commissioned by Adobe, participated in the “Leaders of Public Opinion” program, creating works at the invitation of the Culture Department of the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He has collaborated with brands such as Givenchy, Juun J, David Koma.
His works are in museum collections of Luxemburg Museum of Modern Art, Luxembourg; Ekaterina Foundation, Russia; Jan des bouvrie, Institut Culturel Bernard Magrez, France; Samawi Collection, Dubai; Jeju museum of art, Korea; 21 cMuseum, USA; Moscow Multimedia Art Museum, Russia; FRAC Reunion, France; Sollo Collection, Spain and others. As well as in private collections in Russia, America and Switzerland.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS:
- 2024 — Fair |catalog| December, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow, Russia
- 2024 — Cosmoscow, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow, Russia
- 2024 — St. Petersburg Art Fair “1703”, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Manezh, St. Petersburg, Russia.
- 2024 — Fair |catalog| April, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow, Russia
- 2019 — “Mutant”, solo exhibition , Osnova Gallery, Moscow, Russia
- 2018 — “Looking Back and Beyond”, group exhibition, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, USA
- 2018 — “Elèctric i llunyà”, group exhibition, Tecla Sala Cultural Center, Barcelona, Spain
- 2017 — “Elegance”, group exhibition, RTR Gallery, Paris, France
- 2016 — “On behalf of baboushka”, group exhibition, RTR Gallery, Paris, France
- 2016 — “All eyes on me”, group exhibition, Pechersky Gallery, Moscow, Russia
- 2016 — “Lonely Narcissus”, solo exhibition, Osnova Gallery, Moscow, Russia
- 2014 — “Faces”, solo exhibition, Galerist, Istanbul, Turkey
- 2014 — “8 years. Retrospective”, solo exhibition, RTR Gallery, Paris, France
- 2012 — “Another Face”, solo exhibition, Museum of Multimedia Arts, Moscow, Russia
- 2012 — “Tears and Toy Story”, solo exhibition, Museum of Regional Arts of Krasnodar, Russia
- 2012 — “Another Face”, solo exhibition, RTR Gallery, Paris, France
- 2012 — “Reboot”, group exhibition, Red October Gallery, Moscow, Russia
- 2012 — “I am who I am”, group exhibition, KIT Kunst im Tunnel, Düsseldorf, Germany
- 2012 — International Photography Festival, Republic of Korea
- 2012 — “Perestroika”, solo exhibition, Fotofest 2012 Biennial of Photography, Houston, USA
- 2012 — “Photography: Russia, China, Czech and Slovak Republic” group exhibition, Allen Center, Houston, USA
- 2011 — “Cubs”, solo exhibition, Espace Art 22 gallery, Brussels
- 2011 — “Cubs”, solo exhibition, Senda Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
- 2011 — FotoArtFestival, BWA, Bielsko, Twarze, Poland
- 2011 — “Cubs”, solo exhibition, RTR Gallery, Paris, France
- 2011 — “Gevaarlijk Jong”, group exhibition, Dr. Ghislain Museum, Ghent, Belgium
- 2011 — “F for Fake”, group exhibition, Belvedere Palace, San Leucio “Smell, Colour, Chemestry, Art and Education”, Santa Monica Museum, Barcelona, Spain
- 2010 — “Toystory”, solo exhibition, Flatland Gallery, Utrecht, Netherlands
- 2010 — “Toystory”, solo exhibition, Senda Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
- 2010 — “Russian Tales”, group exhibition, EXPRMNTL gallery, Toulouse, France
- 2010 — “Russains! Photographic portrait 1970-2010”, group exhibition, OREL ART gallery, Paris, France
- 2010 — “Atopia”, group exhibition, Center for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- 2010 — “inSPIRACJE”, festival, Poland
- 2010 — “L'exquis et l'obscur”, Galerie D.X, Bordeaux, France
- 2009 — “Tears”, solo exhibition, Art Espace 22, Brussels, Belgium
- 2009 — “Les Visages”, group exhibition, Interalia, Seoul
- 2009 — “Look me in the Eyes”, group exhibition, RTR Gallery, Paris
- 2009 — Pingyao International Photography Festival 2009, China
- 2009 — “Visage. Image. Timps”, group exhibition, Ekaterina Cultural Foundation, Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow
Fair |catalog| April 2023, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow, Russia
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
- Artguide - Year Three: the results of art fair 1703
- Photoplay - Talks. Oleg Dou
- Moskvich Mag - This is my city: artist Oleg Dou
- ArtInvestment - Artist of the Week: Oleg Dou
- U magazine - Artist Oleg Dou - about fashion, design and art collaborations
- BURO. - The Carol Christian Poell store will host an exhibition of artist Oleg Dou
- Next Level - Oleg Dou. Sketches
Koteshov Kirill
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.
Born in 1983 in Kemerovo.
Graduated from St. Petersburg State Academy of Art and Industry named after A.L. Stieglitz at the Department of Monumental and Decorative Painting, workshop of Prof. V.G. Lekanov (2004-2010) and Kemerovo Art College at the painting and pedagogical department (1999-2004). The works of the artist are in the Russian Museum.
In his works Kirill considers the idea of globalization as a metaphor for biblical subjects, using a stylistics referring to the aesthetics of the High Renaissance. Koteshov dissects the aesthetics of classical body image, exploring a motif reminiscent of Michelangelo's late sculptures from the Slaves series - spiraling bodies, somewhere unfinished, hardly carved from stone.
The artist also creates industrial landscapes transformed into futuristic images of the city, using Kuzbasslak - coal tar, which refers to the industrial context of his small homeland.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS:
- 2024 — “Cosmopera”, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
- 2010 — “Stolpopotvlenie”, Atelier No. 2 Gallery, Moscow
- 2010 — “Vive la jeune Garde”, Atelier du vent, Rennes
- 2010 — “L'Exposition d'Ilya Gaponov & Kirill Koteshov”, Maison du ventes Leclere, Marseille
- 2010 — “Summer snow”, Maison du Loir-et-Cher, Blois
- 2008 — “Three Days”, Triumph Gallery, Moscow
- 2008 — “The Last Snow”, Globus Gallery, St. Petersburg
- 2008 — “UNDER GROUND”, Manezh, Small Hall, St. Petersburg
- 2007 — “Kuzbass Parallel”, Triumph Gallery, Moscow
- 2007 — “Position”, Museum of St. Petersburg State Art and Design Academy, St. Petersburg
GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS:
- 2024 — Fair |catalog| December, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow, Russia
- 2024 — Cosmoscow, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow, Russia
- 2024 — St. Petersburg Art Fair “1703”, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Manezh, St. Petersburg
- 2024 — Fair |catalog| April, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow, Russia
- 2023 — Fair |catalog| December, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow, Russia
- 2023 — Cosmoscow, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow, Russia
- 2023 — St. Petersburg Art Fair “1703”, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Manezh, St. Petersburg, Russia
- 2021 — “Answer 42” in the framework of the International Women's Forum, Kuzbass Ice Palace, Kemerovo, Russia
- 2020 — “Realism: yesterday and today. Art and Truth”, the branch of the Russian Museum in Malaga. Spain, Malaga
- 2020 — “Artists and collectors to the Russian Museum.Gifts.1898 - 2019. Selected” State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
- 2019 — “Beauty: PLUS-MINUS”, Central Exhibition Hall “Manezh”.
- 2018 — “Project of interregional cooperation in the field of contemporary art NEMOSKVA”
- 2016 — “Ark”, as part of the V International Biennale of Young Art, Moscow.
- 2016 — “Changes”, Ural Vision Gallery, Budapest
- 2015 — “Russia. Realism XXI century”, State Russian Museum, Benois Building, St. Petersburg
- 2014 — “Newer than New” as part of the Baltic Biennale, New Museum, St. Petersburg
- 2014 — “Strictness and Beauty”, Ural Vision Gallery, Yekaterinburg
- 2014 — “The Other Capital”, Moscow Museum, Moscow
- 2014 — “Actual Drawing”, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
- 2014 — “Waterline” installation, as part of the parallel program of the biennale “Manifesta10”, Rizzordi art foundation, St. Petersburg
- 2013 — ICONS. Creative space Tkachi. St. Petersburg, Russia
- 2011 — “Gates and Doors”, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
- 2010 — ART Moscow, Triumph Gallery, Moscow
- 2010 — “Vive la jeune Garde”, Atelier du vent, Rennes
- 2010 — Summer Snow. Maison du Loir et Cher. Blois, France
- 2010 — “Hero of Our Time”, Moscow International Biennale “Stop! Who's Coming?”
- 2010 — “Futurology”, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow.
- 2009 — Kandinsky Prize Exhibition. Louise Blouin Foundation. London
- 2009 — ART Moscow, Triumph Gallery, Moscow
- 2009 — VIII Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale, Krasnoyarsk
- 2009 — Festival of Contemporary Art ART Zavod, Yekaterinburg (GTSI)
- 2009 — “Topology of Happiness”, Historic Architectural Museum Tsaritsyno, Moscow
- 2009 — “Russian Beauty”, GTSI, Moscow
- 2009 — Europe Art Fair 2009, Geneva, Switzerland
- 2009 — Art Basel Selection, Basel, Switzerland
- 2008 — “Death.net”, Art Gallery “Victoria”, Samara.
- 2008 — “White Space” Gallery, London
- 2008 — Festival of Contemporary Art ART Zavod, Yekaterinburg (GTSI)
- 2008— ART Moscow, Triumph Gallery, Moscow
- 2008 — “Pereuchet” Manege, Small Hall, St. Petersburg
- 2008 — “Memory of Fields”, loft-project “Etazhi”, St. Petersburg
- 2008 — Festival of contemporary art “Snegarry”, Kemerovo
- 2007 — “The Most New”, Atelier Gallery No. 2, Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
- 2006 — Festival of contemporary art “Art - Status”, Kemerovo
- 2006 — First Biennale of Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg
- 2005 — Exhibition of competitive works “The Nutcracker”, Exhibition Hall of the State Opera and Ballet Theater of the St. Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory
- 2003 — Work of the Year, Kemerovo Union of Artists, Kemerovo
ABOUT THE PROJECT “TREE OF LIFE”:
The main goal of the exhibition is to show the specifics of the functioning of drawing in contemporary Russian art. The main focus is on works from the 1990s-2000s, but earlier material, mostly related to conceptualism, is also included. The exhibition demonstrates various ways of actualizing drawing and drawing technique.
The intention of the work reflects the contemporary artist's distrust of the proper degree of grandeur of the space around him. The desire for the “great” inevitably leads to the element of monumental art organized according to classical laws. The idea is realized using the plot of the most daring creative event in the supposed history. The Tower of Babel, not the authentic stone steps of the ancient temple, but its mental construction, has penetrated the structure of memory and language as a multidimensional symbol. The creative act of erecting the tower can be regarded as a pure desire for greatness. The transformation of desire into action generates architectural splendor, allowing man to order nature according to the rules of supports and slabs. The creation of the tower (pillar) is the technological magnification of human civilization, and it continues to this day. Peoples, institutions, cultures and subcultures, overt and covert societies are equivalent as elements of the structure, the removal of one of them provokes instability of the puzzle. The personification of social realities turns into a metaphor of the construction process, where each character becomes an architectural block. It becomes clear that the piled bricks, which fall into place on their own, may not be aware of the existence of the Architect. Meanwhile, there is an Architect. In his role for a moment appears an artist creating virtual architecture. The scale and risk of this endeavor is deliberately high. An enthusiastically begun tower has turned into a construction frozen for lack of funds; a creation of grandiose utility risks turning into an aimless pandemonium of the crowd. And so, as a reminder of the great collapse of great ideas, the spirit of the titanic frescoes of the Renaissance inevitably accompanies the building. Considering the idea of globalization as a metaphor for biblical stories, the author uses a stylistic style that in its formal features refers to the aesthetics of the High Renaissance to build a sharp compositional structure. The body in this work merges one with the other. The body becomes at the same time a living matter, an inanimate object, a fragment, a puzzle, a detail of a mechanism that extends beyond the space of the canvas. By dissecting the aesthetics of the classical image of the body, the author thereby explores a motif that in some ways resembles the moment of Michelangelo's last sculptures from the “Slaves” series - these are spiraled bodies - somewhere unfinished - almost not carved from stone. One can notice such a modernist gesture in them - the body both is and is not. In the same way, the body in Corpus II becomes a kind of refrain and continuation of the classical story of man, his spirit and struggle. The span of time of which we are participants and observers is a time of tectonic shifts of concepts and paradigms, like the Renaissance. Global structures absorb identities, leading to unification - of languages, images, worldviews. But can total equation be avoided? can a compromise between identity and the global emerge? can nations remain? Mixing and equation seems to be inevitable, but polyphony is always deeper and more complex. The paradox of globalization is the realization of identity. The tower cannot be completed. The general will still collapse into the particular.
Actual Drawing Exhibition, 2014, Marble Palace, Russian Museum
Space Opera” exhibition, a-s-t-r-a gallery, Moscow, 2024
“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, which was created in the Russian Museum for the exhibition “Actual Drawing”, really combines monumental painting, which practically turns into wall painting. The drawing is executed so qualitatively that it creates a feeling of the work of old masters, nevertheless, the theme of the Tree of Life and its realization by Kirill Koteshov remain relevant today. In Kirill Koteshov's work, the tree is formed by the intertwined figures of people, the bodies touching and connecting with each other, creating a sense of a tree crown, a monolithic mass moving upwards and uniting all things into a single bond. The bodies are devoid of faces, gender, individual characteristics, but they are physically ideal, 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.”
Kirill Koteshov
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
- Artguide - Year three: the results of art fair 1703
- Artguide - Cosmoopera. Imaginary Architecture by Kirill Koteshov
- Vedomosti - Classics and contemporaries: four new exhibitions of spring
- BURO - Who's new? Participating artists worth coming to Cosmoscow 2023 for
- Playbill - What to see at the new contemporary art fair |catalog|
Yuldash Dishon
Dishon Yuldash works with the sculptural medium. The main focus of the works is to explore the fluid medium of forms, the physical effects of materials, fluid constructions, new forms of practice as a therapy for recovery.
Dishon Yuldash is an artist and founder of the Moscow gallery ISSMAG. She lives and works in Moscow. Graduated from the Institute of Contemporary Art Im. Graduated from Iosif Bakstein Institute of Contemporary Art: New Art Strategies course, specializing in contemporary art practice, workshop of Stas Shuripa.
Dishon Yuldash works with the sculptural environment. The main focus of the works is to explore the fluid medium of forms, the physical effects of materials, fluid constructions, and new forms of practice as a therapy for recovery.
As a resident of Richter Workshops, artist Dishon Yuldash created the bottle design for Richter perfume with incense and black currant scent by Matvei Yudov.
She is the founder of the non-profit project Prolog.Vision, which realized the group exhibition “Planned Obsolescence” by curator Alexander Burenkov, who received the “Innovation - 2017” award in the category “Curator of the Year” for the exhibition.
PROJECTS AND AWARDS:
- 2014 / to this day — Founder of non-profit project ISSMAG gallery
- 2016 — Founder of non-profit project Prolog.Vision
- 2016 - Prolog.Vision. “Planned Obsolescence” international project, guest curator Alexander Burenkov. Parallel program of the V Moscow Biennale, Moscow
- 2017 - Prolog.Vision, award “innovation - 2017” curator of the year. (curator Alexander Burenkov)
SELECTED FAIRS:
- 2024 — Fair |catalog| December, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
- 2024 — Cosmoscow, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
- 2021 — Cosmoscow Art Fair, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
- gallery, Moscow, Russia
- 2021 — Blazar Art Fair, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
- 2022 — Blazar Art Fair, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
- 2022 — Art Moscow Art Fair, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
- 2023 — Art Moments Jakarta Art Fair, Kendys gallery, Bali
- 2024 — Cosmoscow Art Fair, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Москва
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
- 2024 — “Locus amoenus” group project, Museum of Gulag History, Moscow
- 2024 — “Dark Room No. 1” solo project, 19 DEVYATNADTSAT, Moscow
- 2024 — “Souvenir Trapa Natan”, Skaz Art Festival, Altai
- 2023 — “Horizon brings time closer” group project Deeplist, Moscow
- 2023 — Art residence Nuer Sang, Chiang Mai, Thailand
- 2022 — “Dead kingdom” solo project, NOVAT, Novosibirsk
- 2022 — “Staff &|| Transparent rod” artweekend art festival, Altai
- 2022 — “Found trophy” solo project ISSMAG gallery, Moscow
- 2021 — “Ceremony 19742” solo project, Daipyat, Voronezh
- 2021 — “Beauty bomb” group project ISSMAG Gallery. Moscow
- 2020 — “Upper layer of the sky” solo project. Hotel Richter, Moscow
- 2020 — Art residency, Hotel Richter Workshops, Moscow
- 2020 — “The loud sound of the serena” solo project, Villa Papi Mamie, Le Croisic, France
- 2019 — “Minisystems”, Hotel Richter , Moscow
- 2019 — Travel agency “Noumen” Globalization and the unknown. Part l. Fabrika, Moscow
CURATORIAL PROJECTS:
- 2024 — “Clouds ”Yulia Goldman. ISSMAG gallery, Moscow
- 2023 — “Numb Brushes” Vika Begalskaya & Alexander Vilkin. ISSMAG gallery, Moscow
- 2022 — “Life Force. Rhodesian Genius” Dmitry Gilen, ISSMAG gallery, Moscow
- 2021 — “Exercise in virtue” group exhibition.
ISSMAG gallery. Moscow - 2021 — “All dogs go to heaven” Stasya Grishina, ISSMAG gallery, Moscow
- 2020 — “Deformation without tearing and gluing” Vitaly Bezpalov, Jan Ginzburg, Victor Timofeev, Biennale Carbone 20, Saint Etienne, France
- 2020 — “Quintessence” solo exhibition of Vitaly Bespalov. ISSMAG gallery, Moscow
- 2020 — “Quintessence” solo exhibition of Vitaly Bespalov. ISSMAG, Moscow
- 2020 — Exhibition of one work by Bora Akinchuk (London). ISSMAG gallery, Moscow
- 2020 — “Quintessence multiplies boredom, with - dead mother-of-pearl, hollow mystery” Katya Khasina, ISSMAG gallery, Moscow
- 2020-2021 — New season curated by TZVETNIK invited Dishon Yuldash. ISSMAG gallery. Moscow
- 2020 — “∅. no w” sound installation by Yegor Anonko. ISSMAG, gallery, Moscow
- 2019 — Curator of projects a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
- 2018 — “Protodermis” installation by Abu Blount. ISSMAG gallry, Moscow
- 2018 — Concert-practice “m e r t s a n i e” by Anastasia Tolchneva (aka Lovozero) and Anna Kravchenko, ISSMAG gallery, Moscow
- 2017 — “Vctn” installation and video work by Alena Shapovalova and musician Ignat Olenev (Johns Kingdom). ISSMAG gallery, Moscow
- 2017 — “Who if you are not” performance by Alexei Tarutz. Rabitsa, Moscow
- 2017 — “Let all your dreams come true” performance-audio installation, Alexei Tarutz. Cosmoscow Art Fair, Moscow Cosmoscow, Moscow
- 2016 — “Respawn, exactly, if not you then who” solo exhibition by Alexei Tarutz. ISSMAG gallery, Moscow
- 2016 — “Bangs” / “Bangs” solo exhibition by Oleg Ustinov. Fabrika, Moscow
- 2015 — “STILL MOVING” group exhibition, Sinead Breslin, Alexander Selivanov, Oleg Ustinov. Spiridonov House, Moscow
PUBLICATIONS:
- MOSCOW MAG article “Why You Should Know Me: Issmag Gallery founder Dishon Yuldash”
- Vogue article “Why ceramics has become so trendy and which artists to follow”
- BURO 24/7 article on the launch of a fragrance for the Richter space in bottles by Dishon Yuldash
- Esquire article about the fragrance launch for Richter Space
- The BluePrint article on Dishon Yuldash's creation of sculptural bottles for the Richter fragrance space
- Arterritory.com article “Where the rainbow led”
- Статья tzvetnik.online "All Dogs go to heaven" by Stasia Grishina at Issmag, Moscow
- Article tzvetnik.online “All Dogs go to heaven” by Stasia Grishina at Issmag, Moscow
- Article tzvetnik.online “Deformation without tearing and gluing”, Group Show at Carbone 20, Saint-Etienne
- Dishon Yuldash interview for ArtUzel
- AQNB about the presentation of the video performance “ALEXEY TARUTS / WHO ISN'T YOU” at Issmag Gallery.
- AroundArt article about Katya Hasina's exhibition “Twigless multiplies boredom, with - dead mother-of-pearl, hollow mystery” at Issmag Gallery