Cosmoscow 2025 : Moscow, Russia
Anna Nova Gallery takes part in the 13th Cosmoscow International Contemporary Art Fair from 12 to 14 September. The gallery's stand will feature sculptures by Denis Patrakeev, paintings and objects by Ilya Fedotov-Fedorov, and graphics by Dima Filippov.
The works presented at the stand open new facets of the possibilities of interaction between man and nature. In them fragments of wood and stone, post-industrial landscapes, animals and organic forms find new life and alternative ways of representation. Non-human objects such as animals, plants and the environment are at the centre of the artists' attention. They become not just aesthetic images, but full-fledged participants in the process of meaning-making.
Denis Patrakeev's main mediums are painting, graphics, video art, installation and sculpture. He turns to natural materials in their pristine state, revealing them in the category of the sacred, translating them into the language of art from the language of creativity. In his practice Patrakeev endeavours to show the eternal through the temporal. The symbolic embodiment of this idea is bronze, an imperishable material, a kind of ‘antiques of the future’.
Ilya Fedotov-Fedorov works with media such as installation, sculpture, video and painting. Fedotov-Fedorov's artistic practice has been significantly influenced by his experiences as a child. After spending a great deal of time in hospitals due to a rare kidney disease, the artist developed a deep sense of bodily dissociation, otherness and fragility. A key concept in Fedotov-Fedorov's work is the ‘ominous valley’. The artist creates works that often feature masks, deformed faces and forms that resemble living creatures. These images evoke a sense of unease and form a conflict between recognition and alienation, between the human and the non-human.
Dima Filippov creates installations, drawings, photographs and videos, exploring the relationship between landscape and man. Dima was born in Gornyak, a small mining town in the steppe in the Altai region on the border with Kazakhstan. His father worked in the mine until it closed down in the 1990s. The artist considers a trip to the ruins of the mine, which was recorded on film photographs, as the starting point of his practice. The landscape often becomes a landscape, a space of complex interplay between geography, the economic map and the institutional grid of cultural production.
