The Arkhangelsk and Petersburg artist Alexander Kozhin (1949-2021), a follower of the 20th century Russian avant-garde traditions, is one of representatives of the Leningrad 1970s unofficial art. Alexander Kozhin studied in Leningrad – first at the Secondary School of Art and then at the Academy of Fine Arts. While studying at the Academy, he met Vladimir Sterligov, an artist and philosopher. This meeting was a turning point in Kozhin's professional life. It added a special "Sterligov" vector to the creative development of the artist.

The exhibition at MASP presents works from the 1970s to the 2020s.
The main theme of Kozhin's abstract paintings is the harmony of the world order. He “thinks” in geometric shapes and lines. His favourite motif is lattice – for him it as a way of organising space in his works, expressing an idea of stable and inviolable world order.

Number signs became an unusual means of expression in Kozhin’s art. The artist used to cut numbers out of calendars, filling his geometric spaces with them. The number signs, however, behave quite willfully – they sometimes join into chains or run off in different directions, and at times turn over. As peculiar violators of order, they represent a living stream, or, in the words of the artist himself, a "flow" of life.