Artist Gaga Kovenchuk

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George Kovenchuk

"Graduated with an art school at the Institute to them. Repin, then drawing 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.
    Dar and artistic activity Kovenchuka is a remarkable versatility and clever irony and remarkable inventiveness. He writes great pictures, makes objects, signs, even oyster shells.
    Grandson of the famous public figure and artistic Nikolai Ivanovich Kulbin greatly contributed to the development of Russian avant-garde. Kovenchuk a daily felt within the advanced culture of the twentieth century.
    In the sixties he made numerous and really very funny posters for "Fighting Pencil", drew, wrote, in 1969-1972. was the chief designer of "Aurora".
    In 1971 he had his first solo exhibition, closed, however, the authorities in a few days "for the formalism. The sensation was the design and illustration of Mayakovsky's play The Bedbug ", published in 1975 as a separate book. Its fair to compare with theatrical staging, and Lilya Brik claimed that "under this book would sign Volodya! His satire estetizirovana, however, energetic, saturated to the same stringent and sonorous color spots, his manner distinctly modern, but that obviously is rooted in the deep layers of the classical tradition.
     Idea Kovenchuka place in Paris "Monument laundress" - a character famous paintings of Honore Daumier - the house of the great master on the waterfront Anjou completely original, bold and noble. The modern concept, a sense of history and understanding that created the classic art heroes - members of today's life and art of today - says Kovenchuke as a truly modern artist. His "invention" was and "fax-art" - images, where the possibilities of modern telecommunications is used as a variant of the new art technologies and unusual plastic devices.
    Work Kovenchuka - the Tretyakov Gallery, Russian Museum, the Museum City, in museums and collections of foreign countries ".
Michael Herman