BIOGRAPHY Georgy ( Gosha) Lykhovetsky was born December 16, 1977in Kiev. In 1986 he moved with parents to Moscow. He completed the Experimental School, part of the Academy of Pedagogical Science. He is graduate of Moscow Open State University, majoring in journalism.. During his studies he worked as a director’s assistant for the Television program, Animation from A – Z. Gosha began painting in 1996 under the tutelage of tutelage of Ludmilla Tanacenko, art director of dozens of puppet animation films. His first exhibition was in 1998 at the opening of the international animation film festival, KROK. His work has since been exhibited at Moscow s modern Art Museum, central House of Artists, in 1991, in a one-man show at the Karina Shanshieva Gallery in 2002, and at the Foremost art gallery in Kiev in 2002, and at the Sol Gallery in Moscow 2004. Gosha is a member of Union of artists of Russia. His works hang the personal and corporate collections in five countries. Naive Notes on the Naive Art Artist should be always innocent and honest. The same is expected from the audience, even if they are the art experts. This is a presumption for mutual understanding and the ability to share the artists feeling. In this light the naivete of the creator and that of the spectator do not much differ. From this viewpoint Gosha’s works don’t call for any expertise, comments or sophisticated or witty reasonings. What they really need is the inner readiness of the spectator’s emotional reserves to perceive them. Forget about all the standards allegedly proven in the course of art history. It is better to enter Gosha’s world without this sort of baggage, and to take it at its face value by just being naive and open-hearted. On the one hand his works are the source of permanent excitement while on the other hand they have a peace making effect on your sole. This particular combination so evident in his art, protects us from the aggression of the world around us. Karl Ermermacher. Art historian, Berlin. On Gosha Ljahoveckij's Exhibition Only an assiduous act of copying can be broken down into components. In that case we get a formula, but we lose the art. True creativity is mysterious. Gosa Ljahoveckij paints flowers, birds, roosters through the eyes of a child, creating an architecture in watercolors. He doesn’t make alterations – if something doesn’t work, he throws it out. I don’t know whether he knows Chinese painting, but he works according to the motto of the Chinese artists: consider, then finish with a few strokes of the brush. His painting is joy. He compels the attentive viewer to fall in love with the trembling of flowers. If you don’t understand, give up. Don’t shake the pollen from his butterfly-paintings. If you’re thirsty, then drink, for this is a pure spring. Yuri Norshtein