IGOR
SHELKOVSKY
Igor was born in Orenburg, Russia, in 1937. In 1954-1959,
he studied in the 1905 School of Fine Arts in Moscow. In
1962-1966, he participated in the restoration of frescos
and icons in the Moscow Kremlin and in Novgorod. In 1971,
he began to work as a sculptor. In 1976, Igor immigrated
to France where in 1979-1986 he published A-Ya,
a magazine devoted to unofficial art in the USSR.
Igor is member of La
Maison des Artistes, a major association of French artists.
From 2001, he divides his time between Moscow and Paris.
Igor's personal exhibits include those in the Clara Maria
Sels Gallery in Dusseldorf in Germany in 1991, 1993, 1994,
1995 and 1997, Holst Halvorsen Gallery in Oslo in Norway
in 1990, Forum Lindenthal Gallery in Cologne in Germany
in 1991, 1997 and 2000, Oliver Schweden Gallery in Munich
in Germany in 1995, La Base Galerie in Elancourt in France
in 1997, Weiller Galerie in Paris in France in 1997 and
2002, Delire en Formation Galerie in Paris in France in
1999 and 2000, Cassandra Gallery in Drobak in Norway in
2001 and several other.
Among his most notable group exhibits are those at the
Blue Bird Cafe in Moscow in 1962, Leonid
Sokov's studio in 1976, May Salon in Paris, New
Soviet Art: Unofficial View at Venice
Biennale and Russian Artists in Tokyo in 1977,
Dissidents at the museums of Turin and Lodi in
Italy in 1978, Twenty Years of Unofficial Art at
Bochum
Museum in Germany in 1979, New Trends in Elancourt
in France in 1981, Contemporary Russian Art in
Cologne in Germany in 1986, Five Russians in Toulouse
in France in 1987, Russian Artists in Luxembourg
in 1993, Moscow: The Group at Newhoff Gallery in
New York in 1995, From Gulag to Glasnost at the
Zimmerli Art Museum in USA in 1995, Documenta-Halle
in Kassel in Germany in 1995, Transparency at the
Cochin Institute in Paris in 1999, Books and Their Possibilities
at Gallerie Claude Dorval in Paris in 2000, Festival
Garonne in Toulouse in France in 2000, Abstract
Art in Russia: The Twentieth Century in the State
Russian Museum in St. Petersburg in 2001, Moscow
Abstraction: Second Half of the 20th Century in
the Tretyakov Gallery in 2003, New Acquisitions
at the National
Center for Contemporary Arts in Moscow in 2004, Russian
Pop Art at the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow
in 2005.
On November 30, 2006, Igor's Landscape (90x75
cm, oil on canvas laid on board, 1990) was sold at Sotheby's
in London, Olympia, for £5,280 GBP ($10,322 USD).
Igor's works are found in the State
Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, the State
Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, Centre
George Pompidou in France, The
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum in USA, The Vienna
Contemporary Art Museum in Austria, the George
Costakis collection in Greece, as well as in other museums
and private collections around the world.
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