Avant-garde master B. Koshelokhov at an exhibition in the New Museum of St. Petersburg

In the New Museum of St. Petersburg began work, prepared in conjunction with the St. Petersburg gallery Anna Nova, an exhibition of Russian artist, eminent master of avant-garde art Boris Koshelokhov. This large-scale project is prepared for the seventieth anniversary of the famous artist.

The exhibition’s exposition is for the most part retrospective, it presents works from the artist’s archive, but there is a section where you can see Koshelogov’s works completed in the course of work on the Two Highways project in recent times. In this part of the exhibition you can see the stages of the master’s work - computer sketches, and next to them are paintings based on them.

In order to make it possible to show all the paintings, the authorship of which belongs to Boris Koshelokhov, it is necessary to place a difficult-to-form area - the artist is so efficient and full of ideas. Therefore, the organizers of the exhibition came up with a peculiar move, striking the imagination of the visitors of the exhibition - there were posters in the hall, which in a reduced form represent a huge number of pastels depicted on them, made by the artist. In total, they can be counted on the posters of more than six thousand.

A catalog has been prepared for the exhibition, which is a voluminous two-volume publication devoted to aspects of the work of Boris Koshelokhov. The compilers of the books say that although this is the first work of such a scale that seriously approached the study of the artist’s creative phenomenon, there is a flaw in it that appeared due to Koshelokhov’s enormous capacity for work. During the time that the catalog was preparing for publication, about three hundred new paintings by the artist appeared.

The exhibition will be available to visitors until November 25th.

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