Igor Borisovitch Berezovsky (russian: Игорь Борисович Березовский; September 8, 1942 – February 2, 2007) was a Russian

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, and

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Biography

Igor Borisovich Berezovsky was born on 8 September 1942 in

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, during evacuation. He was the third child out of six. Since early childhood he liked to draw and make photos. He had always wanted to study—in an art school, an art institute. However, he hadn't managed to get a formal education. Since the age of 15 he started to work, spent three years serving in the Russian army in the Far East. His life as an artist was decided upon, when he joined the All-Union Institute for Technical Esthetics in 1967. Other employees in the Institute included philosophers

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and Oleg Genisaretsky, design and architecture scholar Alexandr Yermolaev, art scholar Vladimir Paperny, saxophone player Alexei Kozlov. Elena Vsevolodovna Chernevich, and outstanding graphic design scholar and historian, played an important role in Igor Berezovsky's life and art. Designer scene at the end of sixties and the beginning of seventies was fueled with a passionate interest towards Western pop and

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. Berezovsky majored in

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. He not only received outstanding designer education, but also acquired a clear understanding of

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. 1973 is the year, when he began free artistic work. His early works already demonstrate the artistic principles, which are to become his main features. A documentary-like, expressive picture. Free, expressive color. A lot of experimentation, much randomness, mistakes. Here is the paradox: everything starts with a photo—this is important, but only the photos made by the author "from within"—the transformation of the photo yields a creative result. The artist's individual manner fully matures in his still life pictures: early, simple and frankly daring. (1978–1979). In 1976 Berezovsky leaves his job at the Institute and becomes a freelance artist. In 1979 he becomes a member of the

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. In the next year he enjoys his first personal exhibition and the Graphic Arts Complex. He earns his living by designing exhibitions (graphics, posters, catalogues), working together with such exhibition design gurus as M. Konik, E. Bogdanov, S. Chermensky. Some of his major works are: design of the national exhibition "Artists for the People", CHA, 1982; "Mayakovsky and Khlebnikov"
Mayakovsky Museum
1985; modern Soviet art exhibition "New Reality",

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, 1989; exhibition "An Artist and Traditional Art", CHA, 1990. All his life Berezovsky has been working with outer forms, and only with them. His artistic thinking avoids literature, not inclined towards symbolism, doesn't employ implications and underlying messages. He has always aimed to articulate modern vision. He was interested in the texture of TV images ("TV Parallels", 1974–77); reproduced photos from magazines and, using large dot patterns, almost eliminated them ("Reproacts", 1981); employed original textures using "stuff" at hand; paraphrased

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and Dibbets,

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and Dürer. He used quotation techniques long before the emergence of talks about postmodernism in this country.

Personal exhibits

* 198
Graphic Arts Complex
Moscow, Russia * 1993 Museum of Cinema, Moscow, Russia * 2000 Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia * 2005

State Tretyakov Gallery The State Tretyakov Gallery (russian: Государственная Третьяковская Галерея, ''Gosudarstvennaya Tretyâkovskaya Galereya''; abbreviated ГТГ, ''GTG'') is an art gallery in Moscow, Russia, which is considered th ...

, Moscow, Russia

Museums and private collections

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* Государственный Русский музей, Санкт-Петербург
"Rosizo", Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation
* Museum of Cinema,

* Posters Museum,

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* Private collections in Russia, Germany, Switzerland, et al..

Bibliography

* Eugeniusz Kawenczynski rozmowe z Jozefem Mroszczakiem. Kultura I zycie, № 5. Варшава, 1975
А.Ермолаев. Технология — источник творчества. Советское фото. № 2, 1979
* Плакат, живопись, графика. Каталог выставки. Москва, 1984 * Jan Zielecki. Igor Berezowskij. Projekt, № 1. Варшава, 1988 * Интервью с Игорем Березовским. Реклама, № 4, 1988
Arte sovietica contemporanea «Nuova realta». Каталог выставки. Ravenna, 1989

Constantin Boym. New Russian Design. New York, Rizzoli, 1992
* Анилины и шелкографии Игоря Березовского. 1970—1980 — 1990-е. Каталог выставки. Москва, 1993 * Собрание произведений искусства АО «Мосэкспо». Каталог выставки. Москва, 1993 * Who's Who in Graphic Design. Zurich, Benteli-Werd Verlags AG, 1994 * Елена Черневич. Не обязательно плыть по течению. Да! Русский журнал для дизайнеров-графиков, № 5, 1996 * «Мастерская конструктивизма — геометрия, структура, орнамент, цвет». Каталог выставки. ГТГ. Москва, 1998 * А.Морозов. Проект «К беспредметности». Каталог Московского международного художественного салона « ЦДХ-2000». Москва, 2000
Игорь Березовский. Контакты с беспредметностью. Каталог выставки. Москва, 2000

VI Международная биеннале графики стран Балтийского моря.
Каталог выставки. Калининград, 2000
Абстракция в России. ХХ век.
Каталог выставки. ГРМ. Palace Edition, 2001 * Графика ХХ века. Новые поступления. Каталог выставки. ГТГ. Москва, 2003
Игорь Березовский: контакты с беспредметностью
Каталог выставки. ГТГ. Москва, 2005
Другой Березовский
Каталог выставки. Москва, 2007

External links

Design Portal, 2007 - Master

Artistic Journal, 2008 - Very Lonely Artist

Vedomsti, 2010 - Separate Human

* ttp://www.tvkultura.ru/news.html?id=152526 TV Kultura, 2010 - Another Berezovsky
Auto Consulting, 2005 - Помидору помидорово

Tretiakov Gallery, 2006 - Igor Berezovsky - discovery

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