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Born 1934 — Soviet and French artist
Oleg Tselkov
Born 1934 — Soviet and French artist
Oleg Tselkov
About the author
Oleg Nikolaevich Tselkov (15 July 1934, Moscow — 11 July 2021, Paris) — Soviet and French artist. From 1977 he lived in France.
In 1949−1953, he studied at the Moscow Art School of the Moscow Art School, studied for one year at the Belarusian Theater and Art Institute in Minsk, for another year at the Academy of Arts. I. E. Repin in Leningrad, from where he was expelled.
In 1956, the artist held the first apartment exhibition in Moscow, and the first official exhibition took place nine years later at the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Physics. From the 1970s, Tselkov exhibited in Europe and the USA. In 1977, against the background of a conflict with the Soviet authorities, he left the USSR and left for Paris. In 2005, he became the first and so far the only immigrant artist who received the Triumph Award. Exactly 30 years ago, a two-volume catalog of the exhibition "Other Art" in the State Tretyakov Gallery was published, now also a literary monument to the era of perestroika. There are reproduced two paintings by Tselkov - "Self-portrait with Rembrandt on his birthday on July 15" (1971) and "Portrait of a Woman" (1964). In the first case, this is a confirmation of the "star" intentions, in the second - a marker of the found image of "faces".
Oleg Nikolaevich Tselkov (15 July 1934, Moscow — 11 July 2021, Paris) — Soviet and French artist. From 1977 he lived in France.
In 1949−1953, he studied at the Moscow Art School of the Moscow Art School, studied for one year at the Belarusian Theater and Art Institute in Minsk, for another year at the Academy of Arts. I. E. Repin in Leningrad, from where he was expelled.
In 1956, the artist held the first apartment exhibition in Moscow, and the first official exhibition took place nine years later at the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Physics. From the 1970s, Tselkov exhibited in Europe and the USA. In 1977, against the background of a conflict with the Soviet authorities, he left the USSR and left for Paris. In 2005, he became the first and so far the only immigrant artist who received the Triumph Award. Exactly 30 years ago, a two-volume catalog of the exhibition "Other Art" in the State Tretyakov Gallery was published, now also a literary monument to the era of perestroika. There are reproduced two paintings by Tselkov - "Self-portrait with Rembrandt on his birthday on July 15" (1971) and "Portrait of a Woman" (1964). In the first case, this is a confirmation of the "star" intentions, in the second - a marker of the found image of "faces".
Akhmatova, Brodsky, Dovlatov, Yevtushenko, Kostaki, Miller - Tselkov's communication with them was overgrown with details, more like mythology. But something else is important: initially non-fictional private stories have stood the test of time, have become, no matter how pathetic it may sound, part of the history of culture, our humanitarian baggage.
Works are in collections:
State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
State Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
Zimmerli Museum (Nancy and Norton Dodge Collection) Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA
Museum "Other Art", Moscow
New Museum, St. Petersburg.
About the author
Oleg Nikolaevich Tselkov (15 July 1934, Moscow — 11 July 2021, Paris) — Soviet and French artist. From 1977 he lived in France.
In 1949−1953, he studied at the Moscow Art School of the Moscow Art School, studied for one year at the Belarusian Theater and Art Institute in Minsk, for another year at the Academy of Arts. I. E. Repin in Leningrad, from where he was expelled.
In 1956, the artist held the first apartment exhibition in Moscow, and the first official exhibition took place nine years later at the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Physics. From the 1970s, Tselkov exhibited in Europe and the USA. In 1977, against the background of a conflict with the Soviet authorities, he left the USSR and left for Paris. In 2005, he became the first and so far the only immigrant artist who received the Triumph Award. Exactly 30 years ago, a two-volume catalog of the exhibition "Other Art" in the State Tretyakov Gallery was published, now also a literary monument to the era of perestroika. There are reproduced two paintings by Tselkov - "Self-portrait with Rembrandt on his birthday on July 15" (1971) and "Portrait of a Woman" (1964). In the first case, this is a confirmation of the "star" intentions, in the second - a marker of the found image of "faces".
Oleg Nikolaevich Tselkov (15 July 1934, Moscow — 11 July 2021, Paris) — Soviet and French artist. From 1977 he lived in France.
In 1949−1953, he studied at the Moscow Art School of the Moscow Art School, studied for one year at the Belarusian Theater and Art Institute in Minsk, for another year at the Academy of Arts. I. E. Repin in Leningrad, from where he was expelled.
In 1956, the artist held the first apartment exhibition in Moscow, and the first official exhibition took place nine years later at the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Physics. From the 1970s, Tselkov exhibited in Europe and the USA. In 1977, against the background of a conflict with the Soviet authorities, he left the USSR and left for Paris. In 2005, he became the first and so far the only immigrant artist who received the Triumph Award. Exactly 30 years ago, a two-volume catalog of the exhibition "Other Art" in the State Tretyakov Gallery was published, now also a literary monument to the era of perestroika. There are reproduced two paintings by Tselkov - "Self-portrait with Rembrandt on his birthday on July 15" (1971) and "Portrait of a Woman" (1964). In the first case, this is a confirmation of the "star" intentions, in the second - a marker of the found image of "faces".
Akhmatova, Brodsky, Dovlatov, Yevtushenko, Kostaki, Miller — Tselkov’s communication with them was overgrown with details, more like mythology. But something else is important: initially non-fictional private stories have stood the test of time, have become, no matter how pathetic it may sound, part of the history of culture, our humanitarian baggage.
Works are in collections:
State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
State Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
Zimmerli Museum (Nancy and Norton Dodge Collection) Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA
Museum "Other Art", Moscow
New Museum, St. Petersburg.
Collection
- JART Gallery
- 3-Ya Yamskogo Polya Ulitsa, 9, Moscow, 125040
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