This exhibition is the artist's return to Novosibirsk by his new art pieces since he moved to his native city - Rostov on the Don after 10 years living in Siberia. The artist represent his new paintings (7), watercolors (7), pastels (6) and drawings - totally 25 works.

Igor Antonovich Kurkov was born in 1936, in Rostov on the Don. 

1961-1966 he attended the Rostov Art School to become a painter and water-colorist. 
From 1966 he participated in art exhibitions. 
The artist lived in Novosibirsk since 1985 till 1995.

Personal exhibitions: 

1982 - Lvov Art Gallery 
1986 - Rostov Art Museum 
1992 - Taganrog Art Gallery 
1993 - State Russian Museum, Sankt-Petersburg 
1993 - Novosibirsk Art Gallery 
1996 - Rostov on Don Museum 
1998 - Novosibirsk Art Gallery 

The art works of Kurkov are kept in many Art Galleries: in the Tretyakov Gallery, the galleries of Ashkhabad, Lvov, Tiumen, Riga, Syktyvkar, Beshkek(Kirgistan), Petrozavodsk, Rostov on the Don and also in private collections (Germany, Spain, USA, England, Switzerland, Japan, Finland).