The Potency of the Mind: The Art of Thought at Cob Gallery
Russian artist Sam Kaprielov’s new exhibition ‘The Art of Thought’ opens on April 14th at Cob Gallery
The show is a series of 40 oil on canvas portraits depicting renowned thinkers. They range from history’s
founding Philosophers to modern day Royalty and Rock Stars.
Kaprielov suggests that the mind is the most potent tool known to mankind. Its used by the philosopher
to ponder metaphysics and by the artist to create images that lead to thought and inspiration. With ‘The
Art Of Thought’ he has brought these two fields of human endeavour together as friendly bedfellows.
His extraordinarily agile and, yet, very precise brushwork has conjured up on canvas a collection of some
of the most influential thinkers of centuries past so that we may retain a modicum of cognition, lest we
forget the contribution that these fellows have made to the development of humanity throughout
history, leading us to where we are now.
Amongst the portraits of more traditional philosophers such as Plato and Socrates, Kaprielov has
included a few of what he describes as ‘red herrings’, such as Ian ‘Lemmy’ Kilmister, Prince Philip and
Roberto Cavalli, to name a few.
During his formative years, Kaprielov spent countless hours in Leningrad’s Hermitage Museum contemplating somewhat yellowish old master works and came to firmly believe that
a truly good oil painting should be yellow.
Sam Kaprielov
The Art of Thought
April 14th - May 7th
Private View April 13th 6-9pm
Cob Gallery | 205 Royal College St | London | NW1 0SG
