"City of small houses" - exhibition of Igor Kotsarev

From March 8 to March 30, as part of the Year of Russian Cinema, the exhibition "FoSSart" will host an exhibition of production designer Igor Kotsarev, "The City of Small Houses." Among the decorative still lifes, fish and landscapes with fancy houses, sketches for various Russian films, including the film “Island” by Pavel Lungin, will be presented. A narrative film screening will take place on March 19, at which gallery guests in the company with a psychologist will discuss the plot and the main characters.

The opening of the exhibition will be held March 10 at 19:00.

Igor Kotsarev (Moscow, Russia) - production designer, painter, participant of more than 50 painting exhibitions in Russia and abroad, organizer of more than 30 personal exhibitions at the Central House of Artists, Manezh Central Exhibition Hall and other galleries in Moscow. Member of the Moscow Union of Artists and the International Confederation of Unions of Artists.

Igor Kotsarev - at the same time, the artist is lonely and very close to everyone, understandable. Igor Kotsarev’s paintings fascinate with a fine line between fiction and reality, fantasy and reality, fairy tale and reality, dream and reality. Through the paintings, the artist generously shares his nature: soft irony and sincere reverie. Happiness and tranquility live in his small bizarre houses, looking at them, one wants to be in one of the quiet, bright rooms, to enjoy the sunset or the sea that goes to the horizon.

Igor Kotsarev devotes a lot of time to work in the cinema, creating an amazing world of fantasies not only in his paintings, but also realizing the ideas of scriptwriters and directors. The most famous work of the artist was the film by Pavel Lungin "Island", which was released in 2006. In the framework of the personal exhibition of Igor Kotsarev in the FoSSart Gallery on March 19 at 18:30 a narrative screening will take place - viewing films and discussion in a friendly atmosphere, in the company of a psychologist who will give his professional commentary, analyze the psychotypes of the characters.

Like the artist himself, his paintings are very kind and positive, light and weightless, at the same time filled with meaning and content. They are like a casket with a secret, full of signs and symbols, alluring and attractive. Guests of the gallery will be able to plunge into the quaint, turned inside out world of Igor Kotsarev’s paintings, full of metamorphosis and mythology; Feel the presentiment contained in it of another attractive and unsolved space, as well as see sketches for many Russian films, including the film "Island".

You can visit the exhibition of Igor Kotsarev “The City of Small Houses” daily from March 8 to March 30 in the FoSSart Gallery!