Igor died Vulokh.

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Died nonconformist artists from the "sixties generation":

nonconformist artist of the "generation of the sixties" Igor Vulokh died in Moscow on 75-year life on Wednesday night after a long illness, reports RIA "Novosti" with reference to the adopted son of the artist, collector, Senior Vice President of "Invest-Bank" External Communications Yegor Altman.

"It was unusual, and I personally think a genius - and as a person and as an artist, the border was not there. He - the man who created a unique style. Artists who are so interested in quality and worked in the field of abstract expression in Russia almost was not, and it is almost a face of this style, which is more popular in the West than in Russia. Glory was not cheated, he left a famous person, "- he told the agency.

According to the source, date and place of funeral and burial are currently defined.

Vulokh Igor was born in Kazan in 1938. His childhood had on post-war period - lost his father at the front, he was in an orphanage after his mother was in the hospital because of a hungry fainting. Family reunion was held just after the war.

Experts on the artist noted that a great influence on the formation of the master had his teacher at the Kazan Art School Victor Podgursky, well versed in Chinese and Japanese art. In Moscow Vulokh began exhibiting in 1957, when in the "Arena" was shown his landscape "Winter," for which he received a good response from the sculptor Sergei Konenkov and artist Konstantin Yuon. After that, he decided to enroll in the Surikov Institute, but the result was a student at the Faculty of Arts Institute of Cinematography, where he met with the current Director of the Cinema Museum Nahum Kleymanom and Vasily Shukshin.

Visiting Kleiman Vulokh met with Gennady Aigi, and since then has started to develop their creative tandem - the artist has visualized his poetic lines, and that, in turn, dedicated to his friend a cycle of poems. Besides Aigi who worked at the Museum of Mayakovsky and well versed in the avant-garde art, the artist introduced to those in whose circle it different from the official doctrine of art could be claimed.

In general, in Russia and abroad were more than ten joint books of the poet and artist, in particular, in the late 1980s in England published a series of poems, "Veronica's Book." In 1961, the first personal exhibition Vulokh in Moscow, and one of the last was dedicated to the exposition of his seventieth birthday in a private museum Igor Markin Art4.Ru. In recent years, he has participated in many group exhibitions devoted to the art of the avant-garde of the second wave - in particular, to the "Export from the USSR" at the Cultural Foundation "Ekaterina" and "non-conformist tradition" at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art. In total, around the world held more than 50 exhibitions with the participation of the artist.

Vulokh work is represented in many major museum collections, including the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, the Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, the State Museum of Conceptual Art in Greece, and they are put up for auction of major international auctions, in particular , Sotheby's and MacDougall's.

By November of the following year at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art is scheduled major solo exhibition dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the artist. It will take place as scheduled.
 

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