Valery Koshlyakov

Koshlyakov became known as the artist working in an unusual technique — painting on used multi-layered corrugated cardboard. Parts are torn and dangling, exposing the structure of the material and often hiding fragments of the image; the paint is applied on the protruding ribs of the cardboard — all of this creates a 3-D effect, going beyond the boundaries of the picture surface.
In the artist's own words, his pictures are like "frescoes which have faded over time, or like the "artworks" of labourers who painted over an image and then someone else came along and washed that off".

Today, Valery Koshlyakov is one of the most famous and sought-after Russian artists at home and abroad. His paintings have been exhibited in the major museums of Europe and America — the Louvre, the State Russian Museum, the Tretyakov Gallery, the Guggenheim Museums in New York and Bilbao, the Museum of Modern Art in Rome, the Pompidou Centre, and the Kennedy Art Center in Washington. The artist's works are in the collections of the State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Modern Art (Avignon, France) and others. He has participated in three Venice Biennales.