Alexander Zagoskin

Alexander Zagoskin was born in 1954 in the village of Vozhgaly, Kirov Oblast, and graduated from the Easel Painting Department of the Kirov Art College. Moving from Kirov to Moscow, he studied production design at the National State Institute of Cinematography. Upon graduation, the young artist relocated to Leningrad and took up the job of production designer and animation artist at Lennauchfilm studio where he was involved in the production of more than 20 films and directed two animated films of his own. Among Zagoskin’s most celebrated film projects is Poor Poor Paul, for which he received the Golden Eagle award for Best Production Design. The artist currently lives and works in St. Petersburg.

In addition to his cinema work, Alexander Zagoskin is a prolific painter and graphic artist, having to his credit more than 200 exhibitions in Russia and abroad. Zagoskin’s paintings reveal a strong influence of his film projects in their decorative effects and the sensation of movement. In equal parts abstract and figurative, they are thoroughly saturated with colour.