Francisco
Infante-Arana (Infante)

Member of the Union of artists of the USSR.

Born into a family of Spanish immigrants. Lives and works mainly in Moscow. Continuing the tradition of constructivism, a member of the group "Movement". In 1970, he organized his own group of artists Kinetico "Argo". Gained fame for his temporary spatial installations, the nature of the (then existing as a series of photo art), light, airy structures made of twine, straps, mirror films, which he created together with his wife, the painter N. P. Goryunova (b. 1944).

1943 Born in the village of Vasilyevka in Saratov region. Father nationality Spanish, and Russian mother

1956-62 studied at the mshsh (Moscow art school)

1962-68 he was a community of artists, received in 1964 the name of the group "Movement"

1970 organized a group of artists and engineers "Argo"

Since 1973 a member of the municipal Committee and MOSH

Lives and works in Moscow

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

1997 recital Francisco Infante (Art Forum Gallery, Tokyo, Japan)

International art fair ART-MOSCOW (gallery "Cinema", Central house of artists, Moscow)

A recital of Francisco Infante and Nonna Goryunova (Instituto Universitario Orientale "Invito all` Artefatto", Naples, Italy)

solo exhibition (Art Museum, Kurgan)

1996 evening with Francisco Infante and Vsevolod Nekrasov (the Literary-musical salon "Classics of the XXI century" (Moscow)

1995 "Artifacts Francisco Infante" (Exhibition hall of Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain)

1994 "Francisco Infante Francisco Infante" (Hillside Gallery, Art Front Gallery, Tokyo, Japan)

"Minus square, minus circle, minus triangle, plus rectangle" (State Museum-reserve "Tsaritsyno", Moscow)

1993 "Prodolgenia". Exhibition of projects of reconstruction of the starry sky (1965-67) (Center for contemporary art, Lavalla, France)

"Francisco Infante, Los Artefactos-92" (Gallery Emilio Navarro, Madrid, Spain)

"La Base" (Centre dart comtemporain, Levallois, France)

1992 "Artifacts" (Tretyakov gallery, Moscow)

"Herbarium" (Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria)

1991 "Artifacts" (gallery Fernando Duran, Madrid, Spain)

"Francisco Infante - drawings, objects, artifacts" (Gallery scholer, Dusseldorf, Germany)

"Installation on the river" (Gallery Hoffmann, Friedberg, Germany)

"Car in forest" (Gallery "Regina", Moscow)

1990 "Artifacts Francisco Infante" (Galerie Alex Lachmann, Cologne, Germany)

1989 "Francisco Infante from Moscow" (Sewickly, USA)

"Artifacts Francisco Infante" ("Wilhelm hack Museum", Ludwigshafen, Germany)

"Francisco Infante - Watercolour and Sibachrome Artefacts" (Rosa Esman Gallery, new York, USA)

1988 "Artifacts" (cinema House, Moscow)

"Artifacts" (Palace of culture of Odessa State University, Odessa)

1987 "Francisco Infante. Artefakty a kresby" (Artifacts and paintings) (Galeria Lounech, Dom umeni is mesta Brno, Czechoslovakia)

1984-87 "Artefacts"(one-day exhibitions) (MIU, House of artist on Kuznetsky bridge, Central house of artists, Building scientists, Home cinema, inter-Union house of Amateur creativity, Moscow)

1984 "Artifacts in the planetarium" (Moscow planetarium, Moscow)

"Artifacts"(the Republican house of knowledge, Riga, Latvia)

"Artifacts"(the Museum of photography, šiauliai, Lithuania)

1982 "homage to the artifact" (Central research Institute of theory and history of architecture, Moscow)

the exhibition at the Polytechnical Institute (Moscow)

"Artefakti" (one-day) (House of artists on Kuznetsky most, Moscow)

1981 "Artificial objects and natural environment" (Center of technical aesthetics, VNIITE, Moscow)

"Presence" (a retrospective exhibition) (city Committee of graphic artists, Malaya Gruzinskaya, 28, Moscow)

"Artefakti" (House of scientists of the USSR, Chernogolovka, Mosk. reg.)

1979 exhibition F. Infante and the group "Argo", "the Art–nature–technology" (the Palace of culture.Lensovet, Leningrad)

1978 exhibition at the club of the Moscow Institute of transport engineers (Moscow)

1974 exhibition F. Infante and groups "Argo" (the Center of Spanish community, Moscow)