Oleg Tselkov Explained

Oleg Tselkov
Birth Name:	Целков, Олег Николаевич
Birth Date:	15 July 1934
Birth Place:	Moscow Region, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Death Place:	Paris, France
Nationality:	Russian
Known For:	painting, graphics, sculpture
Training:	Belarus Theatrical institute,^[1] Minsk; Imperial Academy of Arts, Leningrad; Leningrad Theater institute
Movement:	expressionism Sots Art

Oleg Nikolayevich Tselkov (Russian: Оле́г Никола́евич Целко́в; 15 July 1934 — 11 July 2021) was a Russian nonconformist artist, celebrated for his images of faces painted in bright color, depicting inner psychological patterns of violence in contemporary culture.

Biography

In 1956 he had his first apartment exhibition in the Vladimir Slepyan (1930–1998) houseroom. In 1958 he graduated from the Saint Petersburg State Theatre Arts Academy, where he studied under experimental scenic designer and theatre director Nikolay Akimov. In the 1960s and 1970s, the Tselkov studio in Moscow was visited over the years by such celebrities as, Arthur Miller, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Renato Guttuso, Lilya Brik, Anna Akhmatova, Joseph Brodsky, Yevgeny Yevtushenko (close friend of Tselkov), Louis Aragon, and Pablo Neruda.

The first Tselkov solo exhibition was opened in Kurchatov Institute in January 1966,^[2] but after two days it was closed by the KGB for being ideologically unacceptable.In 1977 Tselkov moved to Paris. Some time later, he bought a farm in the Champagne region of France, 300 km from Paris. There he equipped a two-floor studio where he lived and worked.^[3]

Bibliography

• Book: Sapguir , Kira . Kira Sapguir . Squaring the circle : Vladimir Yankilevsky, Oscar Rabin, Oleg Tselkov, Dmitry Krasnopevtsev : Aktis gallery, London . Somogy Art Publishers . Paris . 2010 . 94 : ill. . en, ru . 9782757204375.
• Book: Rzhevsky , Nicholas . David Mumford . The Cambridge Companion to Modern Russian Culture . . 2nd . New York . 1998. 2012 . 436; 17 b/w il.,1 table . 9780521175586.
• Book: Baigell , Matthew . Matthew Baigell . Soviet Dissident Artists: Interviews after Perestroika . Rutgers University Press . New Brunswick, N.J. . 1995 . 162–170 .
• Book: [[Aleksandr Kamensky]] / Каменский, Александр Абрамович. 1992 . ru, fr, en. Олег Целков / Oleg Tselkov. The Third Wave, Ostankino. Paris—Moscow—New York. 199, ил..
• Book: ru:Другое искусство: Москва 1956—1976. В двух томах . Художественная галерея «Московская коллекция», СП «Интербук» . 1, 2 . 1991 . Moscow . 19, 23, 24, 36, 38, 55, 83, 126, 129, 138, 173, 181, 182, 194, 223, 225, 228, 234, 242, 247, 249, 251, 253, 256, 259, 320, 329 (I); 9, 181–183 (II) . ru .
• Book: 1989. Art of Russia and the West, Nº 1. New York — Torino, Italy. Apollon Foundation. 116, 72 color. pp. 50–59
• Book: 1979. The Exhibition of three : Mikhail Shemi︠a︡kin, Oleg Tselkov, Ėrnst Neizvestnyĭ. «Nakhamkin Fine Arts» Gallery. 88, 3 color il..
• Book: Bosquet , Alain . Alain Bosquet . Oleg Tselkov . . 1st . Milano . 1988 . it. 299 : ill. en coul. .

External links

• Artworks on the artnet
• 24 results last years Sotheby's Auction.^[4]
• Tatyana Borodina on Oleg Tselkov exhibition at ABA Gallery in Manhattan, New York, 2013. Details of Tselkov biography (on Russian).
• VIDEO: Oleg Tselkov speak on the subject matter of his paintings in Aktis Gallery, 2010. There are also some recognizable sculptures of master.
• VIDEO from Tselkov exhibition in Moscow, Summer 2014. The artist has told some of stories from his past and formulated his paintings philosophical conception.

Notes and References

1. Art faculty in the Theatrical Institute was established in 1953.
2. «Другое искусство: Москва 1956—1976», Московская коллекция — СП «Интербук», 1991. Т.I, с.138
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2e3hdjVdVw VIDEO (3 min.), detail of film «Oleg Tselkov à la Galerie Le Minoutaure», on Russian.
4. Oleg Tselkov paintings were sold at Sotheby's for variable prices, since 6,600 GBP till 181,250 GBP depending on size and year of creation.