Studied the humanities at Tashkent University,
Uzbekistan (1992-1993) and at Moscow University,
Russia (1995-2000). He taught at various schools in Russian
and Uzbek languages. In 1992, being carried away
by the philosophy of film director Jean-Luc Godard,
together with Tashkent punks of the group called ' Stripes',
he founded the Industrial school originating from absurd naturalism.
Nevertheless, despite the fact that his creative works
are rather definitively related to genre-painting,
he applies his new methods to practically all sorts of
activities ('social activities', 'construction performance',
'way of life'', 'musical activities' etc).
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He considers painting as a documentary chronicle -
the most effective document appearing fatalistically and totally.
Specific ../images as well as picture-compositions
follow each other like a conveyor but no article looks
like another one and a plot develops continually never repeating.
Taimuras Kozirev began primarily an anti-painter although
influenced by such painters as Feshin,
Filonov, Bacon, Klee, Klimt, Monet and Degas.
His works are created to convey the major human condition.
Every piece was his personal experience.
T. Kozirev is considered as an industrial artist - he renders
the details in a meticulous manner with only one movement
of the palette knife. He produced more than thousand
'industrial episodes', mostly landscapes, portraits and social and
industrial scenes.
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His powerful black and white paintings, his exploration of dramatic
tensions, his deliberately careless handling of paint and the
involvement of his whole body in his gestured brushstrokes placed
him in the forefront of the Industrial painting. He, however,
became known in the USA for his diminutive landscapes.
Taimuras Kozirev immigrated to Moscow, Russia from Uzbekistan,
Middle Asia in 1994 and worked as a construction worker doing
extremely difficult concrete works, while studying at the same
time at the university, mastering a new science for him -sociology.
In 1995 having earned enough for his living, he completely devoted
himself to experiments in the area of cinema and photography.
Having closed himself up in a basement,
T. Kozirev painted sketches in oils in passing studying works
of Cafka, Harms and Dostoyevsky. In 1997 he was offered to work
with dogs and he agreed - a human's life, even a little interesting,
comprises of the absurd.T. Kozirev first received his public
recognition in 1998 for his landscapes displayed in Portland,
Oregon (USA).
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