Exhibition of works by Igor Alexandrovich Kozlov Automatic translate

In the exhibition halls of the Russian Academy of Arts (Prechistenka, 21), an exhibition of the works of Igor Corozlov, the Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Arts, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (1952-2012) opens. The exhibition presents about 40 sculptural works of the master.

I.A. Kozlov belongs to a generation of artists who actively entered the artistic life in the 1980s. He immediately declared himself to be a great master, with a keen sense of modernity, able to affirm his creative vision, create memorable integral significant images in both easel and monumental sculpture. With equal success, he worked in bronze and wood, granite and marble, and many other materials, revealing in his original works the depth of worldview and brightness of individuality, his own plastic handwriting and versatility.

Igor Alexandrovich graduated from the Moscow Art and Industrial College named after Kalinin (1972), and then the Moscow State Art Institute. Surikov (1982), where he studied under the Soviet sculptor, People’s Artist of the USSR M.F. Baburin. He took part in the reconstruction of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, created a monument to the famous scientist Karl Fuchs (1776-1846) in Kazan, a monument dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War (Catherine Square, Moscow), a monument in the Russian cemetery in Hyeres (France)), commemorative plaques to test pilot Gallay M. L., general aircraft designer A. Yakovlev, aircraft designer V. Glushko and others.

The sculptor has repeatedly participated in international competitions and symposia on sculpture in different countries - Armenia, Yugoslavia, Germany, Turkey, Russia. In 1986, he was awarded the silver medal of the Russian Academy of Arts, in 1988 he became a laureate of the Lenin Komsomol Prize.

The range of themes and genres that Kozlov has addressed throughout the years of his work is extremely wide. These are mythological, biblical and gospel themes and patterns. Researchers note the sculptor’s interest in archaic and ancient Greek mythology, Scythian plastic. Inspired by ancient and sacred images, he created works in which the enthusiasm for archaic art is palpable. He achieved this effect, alternating statics and dynamics, tightly knocked down plastic and spatial open constructions. This is typical for works of the 2000s, including “The Warrior”, “Cain and Abel”, “The Feat of Hercules”, “Christ in the Desert”, the series “Faces of Ares” and “The Ancient Motive”.

The author’s high professionalism and sense of material is manifested in genre compositions. In such works as Stepnyak and Boys, Kozlov strictly subordinates the external form to the internal plan.

An important place in the work of Kozlov is animalistic. Fish, birds, domestic and wild animals are for him a kind of carriers of living changeable plastics, which made it possible to search for new forms of rotation, to turn to different materials and technologies. Genuine life is embodied in such works as The Wolf, The Seagull, The Goat.

The sculptor’s landscapes and still lifes were solved in a minimalist manner: this is “Village Landscape” and other nameless wooden, bronze and plaster improvisations. Each of them is like a “record for yourself,” an internal project that can be developed and continued as a structure that lives freely in space.

The multifaceted work of Igor Alexandrovich Kozlov firmly entered the history of domestic and foreign art. Monuments created by the sculptor adorn the squares and streets of cities of different countries. Easel works are presented in collections of large domestic museums, including the State Tretyakov Gallery, and foreign private collections.