Maria and Philip Cossack "City Stories"

Why City Stories? This is an exhibition about the city and the townspeople. Each city has its own big story, its inhabitants and the many small stories that people live in it. Who, if not the artist, will be an attentive and grateful spectator for these stories. Maria and Philip Cossack wanted to convey in their works the peculiar spirit of the city they knew, the atmosphere, the special environment. Their paintings are not just plein air, but rather picturesque experiments. Like the works of the Impressionists, these are moments caught on canvas.

Artists feel that every city is an invisible game. Citizens have their own characters that create the city, and the city itself affects those who live in it. There is something similar in painting - a game of brushstroke and color, a game of rhythms and semantic decisions. Like canvas and paints, the city and the townspeople seem to be without each other, they are always together and their game is endless.