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Bulge

2024
Materials: oil on canvas
3 см x 110 см
Category: painting
Item Number: 020277
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About the Artist

Ivan Kochkarev was born in 1961. in Leningrad.

He grew up in Riga and studied at the Riga Art Academy. His artistic development was influenced by the theater and especially by the scenography of Andris Freibergs.

Until 1993 lived in Leningrad - St. Petersburg, studied painting and worked in the B. Yukhananov Theater with scenography.

Took a participation in group exhibitions, the Sixth Exhibition of the Association of Experimental Fine Arts (TEII) in 1985 at the Leningrad Youth House.

Since 1987 often visited London, where his personal exhibitions took place. The art-works by Kochkarev were noted by publication in the Independent newspaper in 1988. He moved to Moscow in 1993, collaborates with the Boris Yukhananov Theater, he is a production designer at the Stanislavsky Electrotheater. Lives in Moscow, London and Rome.

Ivan Kochkarev’s painting is difficult in execution, minimal in its representation and cosmogonic in content.