Igor
Sergeevich Shelkovsky

. Graduated From Moscow. hood. Uch-school in memory of 1905 (1959). In 1962-66 restorer of frescoes and icons in Moscow. The Kremlin and Novgorod. From 1971 studied sculpture. A member of the movement artists nonconformists. In 1976 he left the USSR, lived in France. Participant of exhibitions. In 1979-86 editor well. "A – I" on the informal owls. art and literature. Organizer hood. exhibitions of Russian artists living in France. The author of the pictorial, sculptural and graphic designs, often of an abstract character, made in various. technology.

Schedule. Member of the Union of artists of the USSR.

Born in Orenburg in 1937. In 1954 59гг. he studied at the Moscow art school memory of 1905 year. In 1962 66гг. worked as a restorer of frescoes and icons in the Moscow Kremlin and Novgorod the Great. In 1971. he began to study sculpture. In 1976. immigrated to France. In 1979-1986. published the magazine "A to z", dedicated to the unofficial Soviet art. 2001. lives alternately in France and Russia.

Works are in State Tretyakov gallery, Moscow; State Russian Museum, Saint-Petersburg, the Tula Museum of fine arts, Tula, Sakhalin Museum of fine arts, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk; the George Costakis collection, Thessaloniki, Greece; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; the Museum Jane Voorhees Zimmerly, Rutgers University, NJ, USA; the Museum of modern art, Vienna, Austria.

Solo exhibitions

1990,1993,1994,1995,1997 - Gallery Clara Maria Sels, Düsseldorf, Germany;

1990 - Gallery Hoist Halvorsen, Oslo, Norway;

1991, 1997, 2000 Gallery Forum Lindenthal, Cologne, Germany;

1995 - Gallery Oliver Schweden, Munich, Germany;

1995 - The Gallery La Base. Paris, France;

1997 - Gallery Of The Centre Culturel. Elancourt, France;

1997, 2002 - Weiller Gallery, Paris, France;

1999, 2000 - Gallery Delire en formation, Paris, France;

2001 - Gallery Cassandra, Drøbak, Norway;

2001, 2003 - Gallery Cagape, Vienna, Austria;

2003, 2004, 2005, 2007 Gallery Fine Art, Moscow;

2005 - Serpukhov history and art Museum, Serpukhov;

2005 - the Tula Museum of fine arts, Tula;

2006 - Gallery "Karenina".

Group exhibitions:

1962 - Café Blue bird, Moscow;

1969 - the Small hall of the Central house of artists, Moscow;

1976 - the Workshop of the sculptor Leonid Sokov, Moscow;

1977 may salon, Paris, France;

1977 - "New Soviet art. The informal term". Venice Biennale, Italy;

1977 - Exhibition of Russian artists in Tokyo, Japan;

1978 - "Dissidents", the museums of Lodi and Turin, Italy;

1979 - "Twenty years of unofficial art", Museum Bochum, Germany;

1981 - "New trends", Elancourt, France;

1986 - "Contemporary Russian art", Cologne, Germany;

1987 - "Russian Five", Toulouse, France;

1993 - "Russian artists", Luxembourg;

1995 - "Moscow: The Group" gallery Newhoff, new York, USA;

1995 - "From Gulag to Glasnost", Zimmerli Museum, new Jersey, USA.

1995 - Document-Halle, Kassel, Germany;

1999 - "Transparency", Institut Cochin, Paris, France;

2000 - "the Book and its possibilities", gallery Claude Dorval, Paris, France;

2000 - Festival Gauronne, Toulouse, France;

2001 - "Abstraction in Russia. XX century", State Russian Museum,

Saint-Petersburg;

2003 - "Moscow abstraction. The second half of the XX century", State

Tretyakov gallery, Moscow;

2004 - "New acquisitions", national center for contemporary art, Moscow;

2005 - "Russian pop art", State Tretyakov gallery, Moscow;

2007 - "the adventures of "Black square" by K. Malevich", the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg.