Artist Biographies

The following are biographies of artists from the Tsarist, Communist, or post-Communist space. Here we discuss the lives they led, the works they created, and what they meant to the cultures they lived in.

January 3, 2013

AES+F Collective

Moscow-based AES+F Collective’s body of work is reflective of the nuanced backgrounds of collective members Tatiana Arzamasova, Lev Evzovich, Evgeny Svyatsky and Vladimir Fridkes — the first letters of their last names creating the group’s moniker. Husband and wife Evzovich (b. 1958) and Arzamasova (b. 1955) trained as “conceptual architects” at the Moscow Architectural Institute. […]

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Wassily Kandinsky

Ilya Gaponov: The Fleeting Beauty of Life

Sergei Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes

Mikhail Larionov

Natalia Goncharova

Mikhail Vrubel

Gor Chahal

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