Unlike the ancient Venus that was born from sea foam, the Russian Venus emerged from the forest, according to artist Boris Kocheishvili. Russian forest, the dense thicket, embodies a primordial, deeply personal space, the point of origin of national self-awareness and mentality. For Kocheishvili, however, the forest is not only a mythological image but also a plastic one. The thicket and the clearing, the forest and the field, much like the colonnade and entablature in ancient culture, represent two fundamental ways in which inanimate matter exists in a space.

В 2016 году работы Бориса Кочейшвили были выставлены на международной ярмарке современного искусства COSMOSCOW. Галерея Vehova Art Space, представитель художника, занимала одну из центральных площадок на фестивале.

Boris Kocheishvili has often said, “In art, the one who survives is not the one who can pronounce the entire alphabet, but the one who masters a single letter.” Yet, in his own work, he seems to “articulate” the entirety of Russian culture—ranging from Andrei Rublev’s "Deesis" to Chekhov’s "Three Sisters"; from the renowned architectural masterpiece of Russian Baroque, the Church of the Sign of the Holy Virgin in Dubrovitsy, to the Constructivist innovations of Konstantin Melnikov.

Works by Kocheishvili were presented in an authentic theatrical space for the first time. The exhibition featured works from different years, including graphics, paintings, and reliefs.