Viacheslav Koleichuk ( rus, Вячеслав Колейчук; 16 December 1941 – 8 April 2018) was a Russian

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ist, musician, architect and

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ist. Koleichuk mainly made

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that involves

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. Sometimes these sculptures function as an

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during performances. Some of his works are part of the collection of the Kolodzei Art Foundation. He was a member of ( Lev Valdemarovich Nussberg's) kinetic art movement Dvizhenie in the 60s.

Bibliography

*Realta sovietica, No. 173/174, Agosto-Settembre, 1967, p. 20–25 *Dusan Conecny, Kinetizmus, (book), 1970, "Pallas", Bratislava *Dekorativnoje Iskusstvo, II/1980, pp. 3–11, Moscow *Environment and Planning B, 1980, Volume 7, Programmed Form Generation in Design, by V. Kolejchuk, Pion Limited, 1980, Great Britain *Vytvarna Kyltura, No.5, 1981, pp. 28–33, – Myslenky a modely Vjaceslava Kolejcuka, by M. Sokolov *INTERPRESSGRAFIC No. 4, 1986, pp. 8–13, Hungary, Self-collage, by V.Kolejchuk *Leonardo, Vol. 24, No. 1, 1991, pp. 41–47. *Vyacheslav Koleychuk: The Dvizheniye Group: Toward a Synthetic Kinetic Art. Leonardo, Vol. 27, No. 5, 1994, pp. 433–436. *Wind, World Interior Design, Winter 1991, No. 13, Japan, – V.Koleichuk *Retrospektive 1965–1990. Exhibition in Kassel *Photo Manifesto. Contemporary Photography in the USSR, (book), Stewart, Tabori & Chang edition, New York, 1991

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