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George " Gaga " Kovenchuk :
1. American guitarist Eric , canvas /canvas, 60 x 50 cm , 2002
2 . Stroybatovets , acrylic on aluminum sheet , 75 x 61 cm , 2013



Kovenchuk George graduated from high school at the Art Institute. Repin , then graphic faculty of the Institute. He studied at the AF Pakhomov . Diploma (1960) - a series of posters - a genre in which the artist then worked successfully for many years.
Gift and artistic activity Kovenchuk differ rare versatility , intelligent irony and astonishing inventiveness . He writes great pictures , makes objects , paints , even oyster shells .
Grandson of the famous social activist and artistic Nikolai Kulbina , greatly contributed to the development of Russian avant-garde. Kovenchuk from childhood felt inside the advanced culture of the twentieth century . In the sixties he made ​​numerous and really funny posters for " Fighting Pencil ", painted, wrote in 1969-1972, . was the chief designer of the magazine "Aurora".
In 1971 he held his first solo exhibition , closed , however, the authorities a few days later for " formalism" . The sensation was the design and illustrations play Mayakovsky "Bug ​​", published in 1975 in book form . Its fairly compared with theatrical staging and Lilya Brik contended that " under this book would sign himself Volodya ! "
His satire aestheticized , however , energetic, saturated to the same rigid and sonorous color spots , his manner distinctly modern, but what is clear is rooted in the deep layers of the classical tradition .
The idea put Kovenchuk in Paris " Monument laundress " - character glorified picture Honore Daumier - the home of the great master on the waterfront Anjou completely original, daring and noble. The modern concept , sense of history and understanding of classical art that created heroes - participants of today's life and art of today - says Kovenchuk as a really modern artist .
His " invention " and became " fax art" - graphic images, where the possibilities of modern telecommunications are used as a variant of a new artistic techniques and unusual plastic techniques .
Kovenchuk work - the Tretyakov Gallery , the Russian Museum , the Museum of the City, in museums and collections in foreign countries.
( Michael Herman )