Latif Kazbekov

Born in 1954 in a German/Greek settlement in Kazakhstan, Latif consecutively graduated from the Nikolai Gogol Alma-Ata Art College and the School of Graphic Arts of the Repin Institute for Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Leningrad. He currently lives and works in St. Petersburg.

Latif Kazbekov is a lyrical philosopher and virtuoso experimenter who devised his own range of form-shaping devices and created a distinct system of signs and symbols targeted at the intellectual and informed viewer. That said, his experimenting is definitely not an end in itself or a fleeting fad, but an indispensible element of an all-embracing concept. The composition of his large-scale watercolours, paper objects, and theatrical lighting structures is invariably ordered, thought and felt through in every detail.