Igor Kovalyov solo exhibition
7th June - 27th September, 2014
Igor Kovalyov is a world-renowned animation dorector as his parsonal works and some industry animation from Russia and LA. We display and sell original prints by the artist.
His masterpiece "Milch" won the Grand Prix at seven film festivals and was acclaimed by Yury Norshtein as "one of the ten best animated films in the world, by James Joyce's standards. It is one of the 10 best animated films in the world.
Igor Kovalyov
Born in 1954 at Kiev, Ukraine. He worked for Animation Stuido in Ukrain. He moved to Moscow, he founded the Pilot Studio that is first private management production in Soviet Union with Aleksandr Tatarsky. In 1991, Kovalyov accepted an invitation to work at Klasky Csupo’s studio in Hollywood. In his time there, Kovalyov co-directed Klasky Csupo’s first feature film, The Rugrats Movie. He is an internationally acclaimed filmmaker, designer, animator and director. His short films Hen, His Wife, Andrei Svislotski, Bird in the Window, Flying Nansen and Milch have received numerous awards and accolades. His work is characterised by a vivid, deeply personal imagination and a profusion of graphic detail. It is often slightly melancholy or alienating and pervaded with a dark psychological suspense. But he also tacks effortlessly between drama and comedy.
Filmography
1989 Hen, His Wife (Его жена курица)
1991 Andrei Svislotsky (Андрей Свислоцкий)
1994 Aaahh!! Real Monsters
1996 Bird in the Window
1998 The Rugrats
2000 Flying Nansen
2002 The Way the Dead Love
2005 Milch
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Art Works
by Igor Kovalyov in Moscow
Clock
Print (Original: ink on paper) 1994
Girls
Print (Original: colored ink on paper) 1994
Waiter
Print (Original: mixed media on cardboard) 2003
Cosmonaut
Print (Original: mixed media on cardboard) 2003
Lev Moross
Print (Original: mixed media on paper) 2003
Untitled
Print (Original: mixed media on paper) 2003
Untitled
Print (Original: mixed media on paper) 2003
Untitled
Print (Original: mixed media on paper) 2003
Untitled
Print (Original: mixed media on paper) 2009
Untitled
Print (Original: mixed media on paper) 2008
Untitled
Print (Original: mixed media on paper) 2008
to Koji
Print (Original: mixed media on paper) 2014
Milch
Print (Original: ink on paper) 2004
Untitled
Print (Original: ink on paper) 2008,
What is Giclee Printmaking?
Giclee (or giclee) is a printmaking technique that uses the latest computer technology. The French word means "ink spraying" and refers to the direct spraying of ink onto printmaking paper or canvas without the use of a screen.
Offset printing, used for general magazines and posters that are printed in large quantities, is renamed lithograph when it is used for art works. Silk screen printing is called serigraph. Giclee" is the name we came up with for a technique for artwork using the inkjet printing technique.
The technique is the same as inkjet printing, but the quality is very different: it uses pigment ink with the same service life as the artist's original work and silkscreen prints, it achieves long-term preservation, and it is printed on thick, non-wood, bleach-free printmaking paper.
The original image is analyzed and strictly measured by computer, and the colors can be produced in more than 70,000 subtle colors by mixing 512 ink colors. It is said to surpass the limits of conventional print reproduction techniques in both precision and tonal range. It is also said to be the most accurate method of producing prints that closely resemble the originals
7-13-11 Okusawa
Setegaya-ku, Tokyo