Viktor Pivovarov
Dedications

12 Mar 2010 - 30 Apr 2010
Cologne

Viktor Pivovarov, Dedications

Kewenig Galerie is pleased to present its first solo exhibition with paintings, drawings and collages by Viktor Pivovarov (born 1937 in Moscow, lives and works since 1982 in Prague). Pivovarov is one of the leading figures of the group of "Moscow Conceptualists" who began working in the 1960s and '70s. Like his artist colleagues Ilya Kabakov and Erik Bulatov, Pivovarov was also active in his early years as an illustrator of children's books, predominantly as a means of earning a living and distancing himself from the official Soviet art apparatus. He was thus free to create a fantastical world of images, within which he enjoyed the greatest possible freedom of artistic expression.

Installation views

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Works

To Milena
To Kirill Kobrin
To Genrikh Sapgir
To Magdalena
To Masha
To Vika
To Lidochka Shulgina
To Alik Tumarkin
To Ira
To my mother
To Seva and Natasha
Basket of Miracles
The Boys Room
Old News
The Body
The Lonely Boatman
Ball Game
Blue Clouds
Teenager
Big Hat
Lost Game
To Stroke a Dog
A quick method of getting rid of something
The Snow Kiss
The Landscape of the Mannerist
And this is how it's always...
Eidos
Untitled (from the series Lost Dante)

Viktor Pivovarov

To Vika
To Vika, 2005
Oil on canvas
65 x 90 cm