BIOGRAPHY:
Ekaterina Kozlova (aka Anna Taguti) was born in 1960 in Riga; her father is an artist, Yakov Kozlov, representing the academic school of Russian painting. Since the age of 11 she attended the Moscow Arts School of the Moscow State Academic Arts Surikov Institute and then enrolled with the Institute’s Monumental Arts Workshop. In 1984 she became a member of the Moscow Artists Union (Painting Section). Ms. Kozlova lives and works in Moscow.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
1990 -
Exhibition, Center Exhibition Hall, Moscow, Russia.
1992
- Exhibition at Lifton Park Devonshire, U.K.
1993 -
Project Palimpsest,Former Lenin Museum, Moscow, Russia
1994 - Project Gestal, Exhibition Center Phoenix,Moscow, Russia.
1998 -
Nameless Orient, State Museum of Oriental Arts, gallery Kino,
Moscow, Russia
2003 -
Êèòàé\china, gallery Manegå, Moscow, Russia
2003 - Kaetay\Kaetaychina, Manege Art Gallery, Ìîscow
GROUP SHOWS:
1986 - XVII Exhibition of Young Artists, Art Center on Kuznetsky Most, Moscow
1988 - "Our Contemporary", Central House of Artist, Moscow
1989 - International Exhibition in the Center of Young Talents, Berlin
1991 - Yaka-91 International plein air, France
1991 - Art-Miff, Manege, Moscow
1992 - "Modern Portrait", Lenin Museum Exhibition Center, Moscow
1995 - First Performance Festival, Na Kashirke Exhibition Center, Moscow
"Tsarizm", collaborative project with desiner Catherine Philipova, Yakut Gallery, Moscow
1996 - "Zone"(sponsored by Chronolux and Dupont), Yakut Gallery, Moscow
1997 - "Oriental Motifs", Gallery Kino, Moscow
2000 - Art Manege 2000, Moscow
"Summer Fancies", Gallery Kino, Moscow
2001- "Direction Tibet", Gallery Kino, New Manege, Moscow
Art Moscow 2001, Art Center, Moscow,
exhibition in Russian Academy of Arts
Art Manege 2001, Manege Art Gallery, Moscow
"Des images venues d'ailleurs", Mairie de Paris, Centre Culturel du Panthenon, Paris
2002 - ST.ART, art-fair for contemporary art in Strasbourg, Manezh Gallery, France
Art-Moscow, Elena Vrublevskaya Gallery, Moscow
"TEXTile" project
"Inner Asia", a cross-museum project of art galleries from Novosibirsk, Bishkek, Alamaty with the help of Soros Foundation
2003 - Art-fair for contemporary art in London, Amadeus Gallery, "Post cart" project, Great Britain
"Îbjects and Things" exhibition, Moscow Museum of Decorative Arts
"Photo-graphic", Novosibirsk Art Gallery, "Post cart" project
Art-Moscow, Elena Vrublevskaya Gallery, "Second Soul" project
"Direction: West. Time machine", Kino Gallery, "Dancing Circle" project, Ìoscow
International art expedition "Earth whispers – Sky's silence" (Êyrgyzstan, Khakasia, Òóva)
III International Graphic Biennale in Novosibirsk, "Etching noise" project
Luxury Show 2003, "Balchug-Kempinsky" hotel, Ìîscow
2004 - Internal Asia – 3 (Khanty-Mansiysk – Surgut, Russia)
ST,ART, Modern Art Fair (Strasbourg, France)
Eurografik – Moscow 2004, European Culture Integration Bridge, Russia
Photo Biennale 2004 (Moscow, Russia)
Art Moscow, Elena Vrublevskaya’s Gallery, The Nine Warriors project (Moscow, Russia)
ARTiade 2004 Olimpics of Visual Arts Athens, Greek.
Working period in the “Frans Masereel Centrum”, silkscreen studio,
Belgium
works in collections of:
Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Russia
Museum of Modern Art, Novosibirsk,Russia
Museum of Modern Art, Norilsk, Russia
Museum of “Frans Masereel Centrum”, Belgium
Museum of Jewish painters, N.Y. USA
The range of the artist’s creative capacities is very broad: painting, mosaics, unique graphics (hand-made), hand-made serigraphy, a new know-how of working with photographed materials and drawing. This range of capacities is not just a game of mind or experimental interest. Anna Taguti’s works are marked with the urge to make use of the centuries-old experience of the Oriental and Occidental cultures. The combination of images, philosophies, colors and plasticities of different cultures, as it has survived through the history, is flesh and blood of her work. Time is an artist, creating non-stop through the centuries. Anna Taguti attempts to save, to freeze this creative action of Time; she aims to catch the intricate interaction of cultures. This is why the methods she employs differ so much.
The Second Soul project by Anna Taguti is based on the beliefs of Etruscans, as well as similar funeral traditions of Siberian and Mongolian shamans, who believed that every human has three souls after his death.
The second soul, having undergone a painful process of atonement, used to be depicted as a burial mask resembling the deceased’s face.
The project consists of 18 such masks of different sizes, made of mould paper mass with collage of etched sheets. Each of them is a separate individual image. Each of them has its own painful experience of rebirth. The objects are supplemented with large black and white photographic portraits.
Burial masks in Etruria and Khakassia might have been our own; we may be studying our own burials and looking at our own images in a museum somewhere in Minusinsk.
Anna Taguti. Masks
