Ekaterina Kozlova (aka Anna Taguti) was born in 1960 in Riga; her father is an artist, Yakov Kozlov, representing  the academic school of Russian painting. Since the age of 11 she attended the Moscow Arts School of the Moscow State Academic Arts Surikov Institute and then enrolled with the Institute’s Monumental Arts Workshop. In 1984 she became a member of the Moscow Artists Union (Painting Section). Ms. Kozlova lives and works in Moscow.
The range of the artist’s creative capacities is very broad: painting, mosaics, unique graphics (hand-made), handmade serigraphy, a new know-how of working with photographed materials and drawing. This range of capacities is not just a game of mind or experimental interest.
Anna Taguti’s works are marked with the urge to make use of the centuries-old experience of the Oriental and Occidental cultures. The combination of images, philosophies, colors and plasticities of different cultures, as it has survived through the history, is flesh and blood of her work. Time is an artist, creating non-stop through the centuries. Anna Taguti attempts to save, to freeze this creative action of Time; she aims to catch the intricate interaction of cultures. This is why the methods she employs differ so much.