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Fallen in love with tire casings, artist Vladimir Kozin inspiredly sculptures orders and medals from this material.

Contemporary art exhibition

In St. Petersburg gallery of Anna Frants opened an exhibition by Vladimir Kozin – «Rubbers», suprematic compositions from tire casings. Story by Anna Matveeva.

Tire casings are fashionable in this season. Black rubber with touchingly sticking out nipples was discovered by several artists in the same time. Peter Belyi showed a stone garden not long time ago – a rubber stone garden. Vladimir Kozin translated rubber into most famous symbols of Russian art and Russian life. He prepared this rubber set for more than a year, being fallen in love with vulcanized caoutchouc from the first sight.

Continue reading “«Kommersant» («Merchant») newspaper №149(3966), 22.08.2008”

Владимир Козин нашел художественное применение автомобильным шинам.

Влюбленный в автомобильные покрышки художник Владимир Козин упоённо лепит из них ордена и медали
Фото: Никита Инфантьев / Коммерсантъ

В петербургской галерее Анны Франц открылась выставка Владимира Козина “Резинки” — супрематические композиции из автомобильных покрышек. Рассказывает АННА Ъ-МАТВЕЕВА.

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Vladimir Kozin
at Frants Gallery Space (SPb)
“RUBBERS”
rubber art objects

at Frants Gallery Space (St.Petersburg )

Opening: Tuesday, August 19 – 2008

Text from “Kommersant” on English and Russian.

It seems like galoshes were called product в”number one” by the language of soviet official papers. They were dull and unpleasant, according to those days fashion, but now they became amusing and even stylish. In the same time it is a bit creepy thing, if you remember the unforgettable “Krasnyj Treugolnik” (“Red Triangle”) – a place of forced labour, called “chemistry”, where galoshes were produced. Rubber product “number two” was a condom ” an amusing, indecent and even secret, but very unpleasant thing, according to soviet way of thinking. Now it is banal, like a sugar candy. There are also enemas, pipettes, pacifiers, gas masks, police batons ” tools of salvation and suffering.

In short – rubber is not an ordinary material.