YURY
KOSSAGOVSKY
Yury was born in the town of Syzran on the Volga river
in 1941. He lived in China with his parents in 1949-1954.
In 1960, he moved to Moscow and graduated from the Moscow
Polygraphic Institute in 1966. Besides painting, Yury has
distinguished himself in the areas of music, literature
and film production.
In 1972, he developed an approach to painting based on
the use of round-shaped forms which he dubbed rondism.
The same year some of his paintings were purchased by a
major Western collector of Russian avant-garde art, George
Costakis (1913-1990).
Yury joined the USRR Union of Artists in 1977 and the International
Federation of Artists in 1991. He was made honorary
member of the Serge
Rachmaninoff Conservatory in Paris, France, in 1991.
Yury's personal exhibits include those at the International
Contemporary Art Fair in Strasbourg in France in 1991, in
the Central House of Artist in Moscow in 1997, the Helman
Gallery in Warsaw in Poland in 1997, the Central House of
Architect in 1999, the Rolan Bykov International Foundation
in 2001, the Russian
Gallery in Tallinn in Estonia in 2007.
Among Yury's most notable group exhibits are Retrospective
of Moscow Artists. 1957-1987 in Moscow in 1987, an
exhibit in the
Museum of Contemporary Art in Tampere in Finland in 1989,
Other Art. Moscow in 1956-76 in the State
Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow and in the State
Russian Museum in St. Petersburg in 1991.
Yury's works are found in the George
Costakis Collection in Greece, the Other
Art Museum in Moscow, as well as in private collections
in Russia, USA, Austria, Germany, France, Japan and other
countries.
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