The opening exhibition of the Carré Doré Gallery in Monaco in 2008-2009 was a big retrospective of Russian art of years 60s to 80s of the past century that followed the footsteps of famous Russian avant-garde movements and moved gradually from underground to open.
The exhibition presented over 30 names and over 100 artworks to international public and has been visited by more than 2000 people.
Before coming to Monte-Carlo, the exhibition took part in the Moscow Art Fair on December,3-5 2008.
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Boris Kozlov
Boris Kozlov (1937-1999) was born and died in Moscow.
Widely considered to be among the most talented and idiosyncratic representatives of Russian painting throughout the 1960's and well into the 90's, the works of this underground artist and master iconographer continue to impress both Russian art enthusiasts and private collectors.
Kozlov exhibited throughout the former Soviet Union and the West, and his paintings have been purchased by museums and private collectors in more than 40 countries. He was gradually falling victim to Soviet-era suppression of artistic freedom and expression, which eventually prohibited any public display or mention of his work for more than 20 years.
Alexandre Sitnikov
ALEXANDER SITNIKOV was born in 1945 in Russia, in Penza area.In 1972, he graduated from the Art Institute of Moscow, after Surikov, and specialised in graphic techniques. In 2002 A.Sitnikov won the National Russian Prize for his sequence of paitings "My 20th century". In 2003, he won the silver medal of the Russian Art Academy. Works of Alexander Sitnikov are to be found in a large number of public collections internationally and in major Russian state art museums.
Natalia Sitnikova
NATALIA SITNIKOVA was born in Moscow in 1978. Graduated from the Moscow State Art Institute named after V.Surikov.
Sitnikova lives and works in Moscow. She creates abstract oil paintings and she became one of the most prominent artists in this field of her generation. Works of N.Sitnikova are present in the collections of the State Russian Museum, St-Petersburg, the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art etc.
www.nataliasitnikova.com
Irina Starzhenetskaya
IRINA STARZHENETSKAYA was born in 1943 in Uzbekistan, where her family was sent during the war. Graduated from the State Institute of Moscow named after V.Surikov in 1968. In 2000, she won the National Russian Prize and in 2004, the gold medal of the Russian Academy of Arts. Starzhenetskaya works and lives in Moscow. Her work can be found in : the Gallery Tretyakov in Moscow, the State Russian museum of St Petersbourg, Museum of contemporary art in Moscow, Museum of contemporary art Ludwig of Cologne in Germany, State arts museum of Tbilissia in Georgia, National gallery of Bratislava, Arts museum of Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Irkoutsk, Kurgan, Kalmykia, Petrozavodsk, Nizhniy Tagil, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Sotchi, Tomsk, Yaroslavl.
Among Russina art lovers, Irina Starzhenetskaya is known for her refined sense of colour.
Eduard Steinberg
Eduard Steinberg was born in Moscow in 1937. He never received a formal art education, he considered his father Arkady, artist and poet, to be his art mentor.
Steinberg developed an interest in abstract art in the 60s. He made his first abstract works with reference to Malevitch, El Lissitsky and other avant-garde artists. Steinberg created "in his compositions with geometrical connotations, floating in the moving cosmic space, the unusual forms,- to give visual interpretation of life phenomenae that had not yet received any exact verbal or philosophical explanation". (Alexandre Kamensky)
Eduard Steinberg passed away on March,28 2012 in his home in Paris.
Anatoly Komelin
Anatoli Komelin was born in the Republic of Mari in the USSR in 1953. He graduated from the College of Art of Penza. Lives in Moscow.
Komelin works mainly with raw materials, such as wood or metal. To him the natural form is the most perfect. He sees his artist's goal in merely making it more visible to the viewer.
Works of Anatoli Komelin make part of the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, the Russian Museum in Saint-Petersbourg, of a big number of regional state museums.
Andrei Krasulin
Andrei Krasulin lives in Moscow, where he was born in 1934. Graduated from the Moscow College of Arts&Industries.
Krasulin is the author of a number of important monumental sculptures, but later in his career he turned to painting, drawing, and he works with a variety of supports such as metal, wood, paper. His art shows references to so called organic tradition of the Riussian avant-garde and its most prominent personality Mikhail Matjushin.
Andrei Krasulin contributed to the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, the Russian Museum in Saint-Petersbourd, in Ludwig Museum in Germany etc.
Mikhail Tikhonov
MIKHAIL TIKHONOV was born in 1958 in Moscow. Graduated from the Moscow Art College named in memory of the year 1905 and then from the Moscow State Art Institute named after Surikov (1990). Lives and works in Moscow. Creates paintings, graphics, 3-D objects.
Work of Mikhail Tikhonov is represented in the collection of the State Russian Museum in St-Petersbourg, as well as in other important state art collections.
www.tikhonov-art.ru
