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Valery Koshlyakov was born in Salsk (1962).
He is a painter, graphic artist, the author of objects and installations. He lives and works in Moscow and Paris.
He is a painter, graphic artist, the author of objects and installations. He lives and works in Moscow and Paris.
Valery Koshlyakov
Valery Koshlyakov was born in Salsk (1962).
He is a painter, graphic artist, the author of objects and installations. He lives and works in Moscow and Paris.
He is a painter, graphic artist, the author of objects and installations. He lives and works in Moscow and Paris.
Valery Koshlyakov
About the artist
Valery Koshlyakov was born in Salsk (1962).
He is a painter, graphic artist, the author of objects and installations. He lives and works in Moscow and Paris.
In the late 1980s, having graduated from the Grekov Art College in Rostov-on-Don, Valery Koshlyakov worked as a stage designer in the regional Theatre of Musical Comedy. There he created a series of works entitled "Decoration of the Beautiful", which brought Koshlyakov fame in art circles. Subsequently this series' name was used as the title of the exhibition at the Tretyakov Gallery (2012−2013) that explored the nature of the beauty of kitsch in 20th-century Art. In 1991, with forward-looking Rostov artists from the "Art or Death" group, he became one of the founders of the legendary "Gallery in Trekhprudny".
Koshlyakov became known as the artist working in an unusual technique — painting on used multi-layered corrugated cardboard. Parts are torn and dangling, exposing the structure of the material and often hiding fragments of the image; the paint is applied on the protruding ribs of the cardboard — all of this creates a 3-D effect, going beyond the boundaries of the picture surface.
He is a painter, graphic artist, the author of objects and installations. He lives and works in Moscow and Paris.
In the late 1980s, having graduated from the Grekov Art College in Rostov-on-Don, Valery Koshlyakov worked as a stage designer in the regional Theatre of Musical Comedy. There he created a series of works entitled "Decoration of the Beautiful", which brought Koshlyakov fame in art circles. Subsequently this series' name was used as the title of the exhibition at the Tretyakov Gallery (2012−2013) that explored the nature of the beauty of kitsch in 20th-century Art. In 1991, with forward-looking Rostov artists from the "Art or Death" group, he became one of the founders of the legendary "Gallery in Trekhprudny".
Koshlyakov became known as the artist working in an unusual technique — painting on used multi-layered corrugated cardboard. Parts are torn and dangling, exposing the structure of the material and often hiding fragments of the image; the paint is applied on the protruding ribs of the cardboard — all of this creates a 3-D effect, going beyond the boundaries of the picture surface.
In the artist's own words, his pictures are like "frescoes which have faded over time, or like the "artworks" of labourers who painted over an image and then someone else came along and washed that off".
Today, Valery Koshlyakov is one of the most famous and sought-after Russian artists at home and abroad. His paintings have been exhibited in the major museums of Europe and America — the Louvre, the State Russian Museum, the Tretyakov Gallery, the Guggenheim Museums in New York and Bilbao, the Museum of Modern Art in Rome, the Pompidou Centre, and the Kennedy Art Center in Washington. The artist's works are in the collections of the State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Modern Art (Avignon, France) and others. He has participated in three Venice Biennales.
In 2020 Valery Koshlyakov took part in JART gallery's site-specific project "CHA SCHA. Exhibition in the woods". Read more about Valery Koshlyakov's object and the exhibition here.
Today, Valery Koshlyakov is one of the most famous and sought-after Russian artists at home and abroad. His paintings have been exhibited in the major museums of Europe and America — the Louvre, the State Russian Museum, the Tretyakov Gallery, the Guggenheim Museums in New York and Bilbao, the Museum of Modern Art in Rome, the Pompidou Centre, and the Kennedy Art Center in Washington. The artist's works are in the collections of the State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Modern Art (Avignon, France) and others. He has participated in three Venice Biennales.
In 2020 Valery Koshlyakov took part in JART gallery's site-specific project "CHA SCHA. Exhibition in the woods". Read more about Valery Koshlyakov's object and the exhibition here.
Education
1988 — Grekov Art College in Rostov-on-Don
1988 — Grekov Art College in Rostov-on-Don
Biennale
2003 — Russian pavilion on 50th Biennale
"Comeback of an artist"
Curator: Victor Miziano
2013 — Parallel programme of 55th Biennale
"Lost in Translation"
Curator: Antonio Dzheuza
2017 — A personal show at 57th Biennale
"We are building utopia"
2003 — Russian pavilion on 50th Biennale
"Comeback of an artist"
Curator: Victor Miziano
2013 — Parallel programme of 55th Biennale
"Lost in Translation"
Curator: Antonio Dzheuza
2017 — A personal show at 57th Biennale
"We are building utopia"
Selected exhibitions
2016 — "Elysia". Museum of Russian Impressionism. Moscow.
2011 — "Atlantis". M&Y Gelman Gallery, Moscow. 2010 — "Unreachable". PERMM, Perm.
2009 — "Unattainable". M&Y Gelman Gallery, Moscow. 2006 — "Valery Koshlyakov. RETROSPECTIVE (1993−2006)". Gallery Ludwig, Oberhausen, Germany. 2006 — "Sarcophagus". Center "PROJECT FACTORY", Moscow.
2016 — "Elysia". Museum of Russian Impressionism. Moscow.
2011 — "Atlantis". M&Y Gelman Gallery, Moscow. 2010 — "Unreachable". PERMM, Perm.
2009 — "Unattainable". M&Y Gelman Gallery, Moscow. 2006 — "Valery Koshlyakov. RETROSPECTIVE (1993−2006)". Gallery Ludwig, Oberhausen, Germany. 2006 — "Sarcophagus". Center "PROJECT FACTORY", Moscow.
Collection
"My spatial objects —iconoses —started from a plane, then grew to volume and further —to space. They are like heirs, freed from their ancestors, from the past culture. These are images of divine values, spatial iconic memories, the search for space for existence, a purely personal place, a monologue, a fence, a cell, a personal temple. … These forms carry the same traces of the influence of Russian home-made: huts, dog kennels, toilets, booths, birdhouses, chapels, trash cans, etc. This amateurish architecture creates an environment that is aggressive, real and free in its form. From this(that that is from icon-painting and traditional construction) were born cubism and Russian constructivism, the best schools experimenting with form" (from Valery's conversation Koshlyakov with Danilo Ecker).
"Koshlyakov turned to architecture, inventing a new word for his objects: 'iconos' —for designation of a form akin to iconic, associated with ward architecture and, in the artist himself, going back to the buildings built by his father in the dacha. From a formal point of view, Koshlyakov’s iconoses are really close to the logic of building architectural forms on an icon with their out-of-order, non-classical and non-functional nature. In they are also well seen and architectural graphics of Russian constructivists, and by the madness of the spontaneously overgrown form in the space they resemble the Schwitters merzbau, gradually filling the interior. Quote from article "A novel with space" by Yegor Ershov for Arterritory.com.
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