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| Oleg Tselkov, Two-Faced, Oil on canvas, 46.5 x 32 in |
Was born in 1934 in Moscow Region. In 1953, he graduated from the Moscow secondary art school and entered the Minsk Theatre and Art Institute, but was expelled for formalism a year later. The same thing happened in the Leningrad Academy of Arts in 1955. However, in 1958, he managed to graduate from the Leningrad Theatre Institute, which was an island of liberalism in the post-Stalin epoch. Oleg Tselkov’s works all include elements of the theatre of absurd, as well as tragic buffoonery. The artist invents his own theatre Oleg Tselkov’s works can be found in the State Russian Museum (St. Petersburg), Zimmerly Art Museum (New Jersey, USA) and in public and private collections in Russia, USA, France and Japan. Solo exhibitions: 1979 – Edouard Nakhamkin Gallery , New York, USA; 1982 – Gallerie George Lavrov, Paris, France; Gallerie George Lavrov-Tanenbaum, Toronto, Canada; 1983 – Gallerie Altes Rathaus, Inzlingen, West Germany; 1984 – Edouard Nakhamkin Gallery , New York, USA; 1985 – Edouard Nakhamkin Gallery , New York, USA; “Mac 2000”, Grand Palais, Paris, France 1986 – Edouard Nakhamkin Gallery , New York, USA; 1989 – Sloane Gallery , Denver, USA; 1990 – Connaught Brown Gallery, London, England; 1991 – Connaught Brown Gallery, London, England; 1992 – “Le Monde de L’Art”, Paris, France; 1994 – Naschokin House, Moscow, Russia; 1995 – Oleg Tselkov, Galerie Connaught Brown, Londres; 2004 – The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia (catalogue).
Literature: Alexander Gleser, New Russian Art, 1992, p.186, illustrated.
Gail Gelburd, Silent Scream from the Russian Underground, 1995, illustrated on the cover.
Pinakothe˜ke˜ , N°22 –23 , 2006, p.103, N°21, illustrated.
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