Exhibition of Graphics by Yuri Kozlov Amphibian Man - Submarine

The idea of this exhibition is an independent reconstruction of the past. Information about the life of the artist Yuri Kozlov is quite small. He himself simply lists the facts with his long, eventful, otherworldly biography in which he was a bus driver, military officer, Kronstadt sailor, stoker in Old Peterhof, a policeman, a doctor.

“I was born in Smolensk, on Vasilyevsky, on the 4th line, house 19, apartment 12, third floor, between elevators. Mother and father were taught. Mom - a chef, fed people - working peasants. "

Yuri - wits. Peculiar proverbs-jokes adorn Yuri’s speech as he is colored by a general’s mustache and khaki shirts. The artist often depicts military uniforms, tanks, planes, guns, medals, orders and German officers. But the war and the Germans are only a small part of the large-scale project of Yuri Kozlov to design his own biography, where there are equal military attributes and women in red dresses.

Buses are another passion of Yuri Kozlov. Along with women and generals, they are often found in his drawings. Yuri has created a typology of buses that run daily past the windows of his current home.

Yuri lives in a neuropsychiatric boarding school, where the curators of the Latitude and Longitude project met. The project helps Yuri in organizing exhibitions and periodically supplies him with art materials. Yuri turns any scrap of paper that comes into his hand into a picture, preferring to draw with colored pencils, felt-tip pens and ballpoint pens. Sometimes the artist provides drawings with inscriptions, as if continuing to compose endless letters to the world or, possibly, to himself.

This is the first solo exhibition of Yuri Kozlov. The works included in the exposition were created between 2017 and 2019.

Curators of the Latitude and Longitude project: Natalya Petukhova, Leonid Tsoi, Julia Kurmangalina.