Altars of Love and Rebellion

Egor Koshelev
Altars of Love and Rebellion

In his work, Egor Koshelev tries to solve a problem that most contemporary painters have in common: How can painting be implemented today - does the artist have the right to paint in today's extremely complex art situation? Ironically, Egor succeeds in reviving the Russian image of an artist who is both at home in academic circles and who has a profane spirit - he uses a kind of romantic cliché: Here we see a painter who knows how to master the brush and his art Strangely resembles either the great masters of the Renaissance or the Baroque - or perhaps the monumental Soviet style with its colossal heroism and pathos - but apart from historical stylization and neo-academicism. Due to constant interventions in different visual contexts - street art and internet - this visual language becomes unexpectedly topical. Koshelev loves to shock the viewer with sharp stylistic contrasts and at the same time to let him change the role from that of a refined expert on art history to that of an ordinary hipster. And when wild eclectic experiments make him almost an image of postmodernist appearance, the artist changes his intonation again and delivers simple and honest works, full of sympathy for the common people.

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EGOR KOSHELEV

1980 born in Moscow
1997 - 2003 Moscow State Academy of Industrial and Applied Arts S.G. Stroganov, Department of Monumental Painting,
graduation history of art studies, researching monumental painting in Italy, late Renaissance, Mannerism and Baroque
Ph.D. thesis (2006): the art of J. Tintoretto
Lives and works in Moscow, RUS

Exhibitions

2012 
Checkpoint, PROEKTFABRIKA, Moscow, RUS

2011
Nuts, Regina Gallery, London, UK
Last Artist and Exhibition Which Has Never Happened, ArtBerloga, Moscow, RUS
Employment history. Factory art-center, Moscow, RUS
Reactualisation of the Sign, Gallery Na Vspolnom, Moscow, RUS
NEFORMAT, Gallery Na Vspolnom, Moscow, RUS

2010 
On the Contrary, Winzavod. Moscow, RUS
PROTO, Moscow State art-center Na Povarskoi, Moscow, RUS
Rare Species – special project within the II Moscow Biennale of Young Art. Factory, Moscow, RUS
Stroganovka, expanding the boundaries – Special project within the II Moscow Biennale of Young Art,
Moscow State Academy of Industrial and Applied Arts, Moscow, RUS
Nordart 2010, Büdelsdorf, Carlshütte, D
Art-Sanatorium, Moscow State Tretiakov Gallery, Moscow, RUS
No Translations, Moscow State art-center Na Povarskoi, Moscow, RUS

2009 
CAN’T TAKE IT ANYMORE, Voronezh Center for Contemporary Art, Voronezh, RUS
PHOBIA, ArtBerloga, Moscow, RUS
Save as, Exhibition Hall Armenian 13, Moscow, RUS
Labor Movement, Special project within the III Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Factory, Moscow, RUS
Care, Exhibition Hall Armenian, 13, Moscow, RUS
Care, Divnogorje State Natural Park, Voronezh Region, RUS
MoskvApolis, Perm Museum of Contemporary Art, Perm, RUS

2008 
Kinky Tags, Regina Gallery, Moscow, RUS

2007 
Dialogues, VII Biennal of contemporary art, St.Petersburg, RUS
Space, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, RUS

2006 
Power, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, RUS

Regina Gallery