Francisco Infante Arana

1943 born in Vasilievka Saratov Region.
. 1956-62 studied at the Moscow Art School
. 1962-65 studied at the Moscow Higher School of Industrial Art
. since 1962 was a community of artists, received in 1964 the name of the "Movement"
. 1970 opganizoval distinct groups of artists and inzhenepov "Apgo"
. since 1973 member of gopkoma The plots
. since 1973 member of the Moscow Artists
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. Collections where works
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. The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
. State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
. Collection of Contemporary Art State Museum Tsaritsino, Moscow
. The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
. Art Museum, Lodz, Poland
. Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
. Wilhelm-Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany
. Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland
. Columbus museum of Art, Columbus, USA
. Museum of contemporary art, Seoul, Korea
. Museum Art gallery, Peterborough, United Kingdom
. Cremona foundation, Maryland, USA
. L. Talochkin, Moscow
. L. Schoenberg, Munich, Germany
. A. Kostaki, Athens, Greece
. JEBowlt, Los Angeles, USA
. Participation in exhibitions and auctions
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. PERSOHALHYE SHOWS
. 1974 "Francisco Infante and Argo Group"
. Center of Spanish zemljachestva, Moscow
1978 Exhibition at the Palace of Culture of the Moscow Institute of Transportation Engineers. Moscow
1979 "Art - NATURE - Technology". Cultural Center. Lensoveta Leningpad
1981 "Artificial Objects and Natural Environment". Center of Technical Aesthetics VHIITE, Moscow
"Presence". M. Gruzinskaya St. 28, Moscow
"Artefacts". AH House of Scientists of the USSR, Chernogolovka, Moscow Region.
1982 "Dedication Artefact". TSHII Theory and History of Architecture, Moscow
Exhibition at the Polytechnic Institute. Moscow
"Artefacts" (overnight). Artist's House at Kuznetsky Most, Moscow
1984 "Artefacts in the Planetarium". Moscow Planetarium, Moscow
"Artefacts". Republican house of knowledge, Riga, Latvia
"Artefacts". Museum fotogpafii, Siauliai, Lithuania
1984-87 "Artefacts" (one-day exhibition). Artist's House at the Kuznetsk Bridge, Central House of Artists, House of Scientists, Home Cinema, Allied House gainfully tvopchestva, Moscow
1987 "Francisco Infante. Artefakty a kresby "(artifacts and pictures). Galeria Lounech; Dom umeni mesta, Bpno, Czechoslovakia
1988 "Artefacts". Cinema House, Moscow
"Artefacts". DK Odessa State University, Odessa
1989 "Francisco Infante from Moscow". Gallery
"International Images Ltd". Sevikli, USA
"Artefacte Francisco Infante". Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Bayreuth, Germany
"Francisco Infante - Watercolour and Sibachrome Artefacts". Gallery Rosa Esman, Hyu-Yopk, USA
1990 "Artefakte Francisco Infante". Galerie Alex Lachman, Cologne, Germany
1991 "Francisco Infante Artefactos". Galeria Fernando Duran, Madpid, Spain
"Francisco Infante - drawings, objects, artefacts". Gallery Schoeller, Dusseldorf, Germany
"Installation on the River". Hoffman Gallery, Friedberg, Germany
"The car in the woods". Galepeya Regina, Moscow
1992 "Artifacts Francisco Infante". State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
1993 "Prodolgenia". Exhibition of projects of reconstruction of the starry sky (1965 - 67) "La Base", Sentre d'art contemporain, Levallois, France
"Francisco Infante, Los Artefactos-92". Galeria Emilio Navarro, Madrid, Spain
1994 "Francisco Infante - Francisco Infante". Hillside Gallery, Art Front Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Negative square, minus the circle, minus the triangle plus a rectangle ". State Museum-Reserve Tzaritzyno, Moscow
1995 "Artifacts Francisco Infante". Exposition Hall Rekalde. Bilbao, Spain
1996 Creative evening of Francisco Infante and Vsevolod Nekrasov. Literary and musical Salon "Classics of the XXI century". Moscow
"Gesprach aus zwei Raumen". Galerie Zollgasse 7, Dornbirn, Austria
"Inside". Gallery "Cinema". Moscow "Artefacts Francisco Infante". Galerie "Karenina", Vienna, Austria
1997 Creative evening of Francisco Infante. Art Forum Gallery. Tokyo, Japan
International Art Fair Art Moscow, Gallery, Movies. Central House of Artists, Moscow
Creative evening of Francisco Infante and Nonna Goryunova. Insnituto Universitario Orientale "Invito all` Artefatto ". Naples, Italy
Creative evening of Francisco Infante and Nonna Goryunova. Art studio, ul.Bodoni, 83, Rome, Italy
Personal exhibition of Francisco Infante. Art Museum, Kurgan

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1963 Exhibition of works of geometric. Central House of Artists, Moscow
1964 "Towards a synthesis of art". Club Maryinskaya street, Moscow
1965 "Alternativa attuale 2". Aquilla, Italy
Club "Viola", Prague, Czechoslovakia
The exhibition of kinetic art group "Movement". Architects, Leningrad
Gallery At Charles nц?mд?stцґ, Prague, Czechoslovakia
"The new trend-3". Zagreb, Yugoslavia
1966 Exhibition of Kinetic Art. Club Institute of Atomic Energy. I.V. Kurchatov, Moscow
"Kunst-Light-Kunst". Eindhoven, Netherlands
"Kinetics". Cologne, Germany
"Documenta IV". Kassel, GermaniyaN
1968 "Documenta V". Kassel, GermaniyaN
1969 "Nuova Scuola di Mosca". Galleria Pananti, Flopentsiya, Italy
"La biennale-69". Nuremberg, Germany
1970 "Nuove correnti a Mosca". Museo Belle arti Lugano, Lugano, Switzerland
1973 "Kinetism - what is it". Artist's House at Kuznetsky Most, Moscow
"Progressive Russische Kunst". Galerie Gmurzynska, Cologne, Germany
1976 "Exposition au Musee en Exil" (A collection. Gleser). Montgeron, France
1977 "La nuova arte Sovietica". La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
"Contemporary Russian Art". Palais de Congres. Paris, France
"Unofficial art from Soviet Union". ICA, London, United Kingdom
"New art from Soviet Union". Washington, Ithaca, New York, USA
1978 "Rassegna sul dissenso culturale nell` Est europio ". Scuola Art e Mestiert, Aula Magna Scuola cantonale di Commercio, Aula Magna Municipio, Sala Patriziale, Bellinzona, Switzerland
Different trends in contemporary art ". Exhibition Hall of Moscow Artists Union Street. ZHOLTOVSKOGO, Moscow
"Science and Art". House of Scientists of the USSR, Moscow
"Unofficial Russian Art". Musee du vieux Chateau; Musee des beaux arts de Tours, Tours; Musee des beaux arts de Chartres, Chartres, France
"Unofficial Contemporary Soviet Art". Municipal Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1979 "Color, space, form". M., 28, Moscow
"20 years of informal pя?я?я?п?пЎп?я? art". Gopodskoy Museum, Bochum, Germany
1981 "Nouvelles Tendences de l'art Russe non officiel 1970-80". Le centre culturel de la Villedieu, Paris, France
Cosmos. M., 28, Moscow
"25 Years of Soviet Unofficial Art: 1956-1981". Museum of Contemporary Russian Art, Montgeron, France
"Possibilities of Photography". Center for Technological Esthetics, Moscow
1982 "Plastic". Artist's House at Kuznetsky Most, Moscow
"Tradition and Modernity". Exhibition Hall Street. ZHOLTOVSKOGO, Moscow
1983 "Non-traditional materials in art". Artist's House at Kuznetsky Most, Moscow
1984 "Photography and Art". Art Museum, Taptu
"Item World". Center for Technological Esthetics, Moscow
"Geometry and Space". Architects, Moscow
"Photo-84". M., 28, Moscow
"Tradition gegenwart. Russische und sovietische Kunst ". Hanover, Dusseldorf, Stuttgart, Germany
1985 "Experimental art". International Exhibition. Club of young artists, Budapest, Hungary
1986 "Scientific and technological progress and fine arts". Central House of Artists, Moscow
"Abstraction 60-x". Artist's House at Kuznetsky Most, Moscow
"Art of today". 1st International Exhibition. Club of young artists, Budapest, Hungary
"50 Jahre moderne Farbfotografie". Cologne, Germany
1986-87 Exhibition of Painting. M., 28, Moscow
1987 "Another Russia". Museum of Modern Art, Oksfopd, Velikobpitaniya
"Art of today". II International Exhibition. Club of young artists, Budapest, Hungary
Artist and Modernity ". First Creative Association of Moscow Artists. Kashirka, Moscow
"Object-I". M., 28, Moscow
"Dwelling". l of the "Hermitage", Profsoyuznaya st., q. 100, Moscow
"Time - Space - Art. Exhibition Hall of Artists Union of Tatarstan, Kazan
"Retrospective of Moscow Artists. 1957-1987 ". l of the "Hermitage", Profsoyuznaya st., q. 100, Moscow
"Photography from Russia". Jungmanova Namesti, Prague, Czechoslovakia
1988 "Ich lebe - ich sehe". Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland
"Olympiad of Arts". Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
"Geometry in Art". Kashirka, Moscow
"Meine Zeit mein Raubtier". Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf, Germany
"Art and Modernity". Central House of Artists, Moscow
"ARCO-88". Gallery de France, Madrid, Spain
Designer-Artist ". Center for Technological Esthetics, Moscow
1989 "100 Years of Russian Art 1889 - 1989. From Private Collections in the USSR ". Art Gallery and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Oksfopd, United Kingdom; Exhibition Hall of the Soviet Culture Foundation, Moscow
"Lenz Shenbepga". Central House of Artists, Moscow
"Register new Soviet Avantgarde". Gallery "The international House, Hyu-Yopk, USA
"Winter Landscape". Central Exhibition Hall of the Union of Journalists, Moscow
"What is the picture". 150 Years of Photography. Manis, Prague, Czechoslovakia
"Color pressfotografiya Kodak-89". Central Exhibition Hall of the Union of Journalists, Moscow
1990 "Scientific and technological progress and Art. Artist's House at Kuznetsky Most, Moscow
"The logic of paradox". Youth Palace, Moscow
"Towards the Object". Kashirka, Moscow
Exhibition devoted to 100 anniversary of the architect Melnikov. Manege, Moscow
"The Quest for Self-Expression. Painting in Moscow and Leningrad 1965-1990 ". Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, USA
"Soviet Contemporary Art" from the collection "Kniga Collection". Soho, New York, USA Paris, France
"Photographies". Grand Palais, Paris, France
"Kunst + Kanal" - "Rhein-Main-Donau". Exhibition of competitive projects. Nuremberg, Germany
1990-91 "Alternative Art. Moscow 1956-1976 ". Gallery Moscow Collection. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow; GRM, Leningpad
1991 "Contemporary Soviet Art: From Thaw to Perestroika". Collection of contemporary art museum Tzaritzyno. Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
"In de USSR en Erbuiten". Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
"Artistas Rusos Contemporaneos no vacio". Auditoria de Galicia, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
"Salon de los 16". Palacio de Velazques; Museo national; Centro de arte reina Sofia, Madpid, Spain
"Back to Square One". Berman EN. Gallery, New York, USA
"El apartamento, el sueno del coleccionista". Galeria Fernando Duran, Madrid, Spain
"Shared Earth". Scotland, United Kingdom; Museum of Decorative Arts, Moscow
"La Base an Pays des Soviets". La Base, Levallois-Perret, France
"From the works of contemporary Russian authors". Benescev District Museum, Prague, Czechoslovakia
"Die Kunst von innen Bittend". Collection Lenz Schoenberg. Das tiroler Landesmuseum, Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria
"Pictures are returning to Russia, the paintings remain in Russia". Paris-Moscow-New York. Central House of Artists, Moscow
1992 "Moscow Romanticism". Central House of Artists, Moscow
"Kolekcja Lenza Schonberga". Galeria Zacheta, Warsaw, Poland
"The Photographic Experience in Contemporary Russian Art. Herbarium ". Kunsthalle Exnergasse; Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna, Austria
The First International Arts Festival. Aq. Sakharov. State Museum of Fine Arts, Nizhny Novgorod
"Bilder und gedichte". Art Museum, Bochum, Germany
Exhibition collection of contemporary art "RINACO". HEAD House of Artists, Moscow
1993 "Collection d'Art Contemporain RINACO. Moscou 1993 ". Caisse des Depots et Consignations - 56 rue Jacob, Paris, France
"The Art of the One family puk, apology or embarrassment". Regina Gallery, Moscow
"Curiosites naturelles". Arts House "Anthony," The Park Bordeaux, Paris, France
"Adresse provisoire pour l'art contemporain russe". Musee de la Poste, Paris, France
"Art Frankfurt". Frankfurt, Germany
1994 "Art of Contemporary Photography. Russia, Ukraine, Belorussia ". Central House of Artists, Moscow
"Europa, Europa". Bonn, Germany
1994-95 "Neue Fotokunst aus Russland". Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe; Galerie im Karmelitenkloster, Frankfurt; Kunsthalle Faust, Hannover; Museum Volk und Wirtschaft, Dц?sseldorf; Neuer Berliner Kunsverein, Berlin; Hertener Fototage, Herten, Germany
. 1995 "Kunst im verborgenen
. Nonkonformisten Russland 1957-1995 ". Collection of Contemporary Art Museum Tsaritsino ". Wilhelm-Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein; Documenta-Halle, Kassel; Staatliches Lindenau Museum, Altenburg, Germany
1995 "Russian Images: 1966-1995". Morlan Gallery, Transylvania University, USA
1996 "Landscape Architecture" (The Russia - Irish Exchange). Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland
Exhibition dedicated to 118 anniversary of the birth of Malevich. Malevich Center, Moscow
Art Frankfurt. Edition & Galerie Hoffman. Frankfurt, Germany
"Aesthetics thaw. Kashirka, Moscow
"Summer Exhibition". Gallery Moscow Fine Art, Moscow "inversion". Nizhny Novgorod Institute for Economic Development. N. Novgorod
Dialogue styles and generations ". Russia Cultural Center. Budapest, Hungary
"From the history of the Moscow performance". ISI Moscow
"Artoteka in Moscow". Central House of Artists, Moscow
"Nonconformist art from the Soviet Union, 1956-1986". The Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection. Iane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA
"Russian Utopia. Depositary. VI International Exhibition of Architecture. La Biennale di Venezia, Italy
"Contemporary Russian Art". Collection Fox Yanstrup and Jens Gregersen. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
1997 "Credo". Russia's Culture Fund, Moscow
"From Gulag to Glasnots: contemporary art in the USSR / NIS". International images, LTD. Sewickley PA, USA
"State Prize - 96"
"FOTOESTAFETA: from Rodchenko to our day," Gallery "A-3". Museum of Photographic Collections, Moscow
"Russia imaginary and real". Russia Cultural Center, Budapest, Hungary
"Harmony of Contrasts. Russian art triple half of the XX Century "(exhibition-auction), Association" Magnum Ars, PAX, TG. Russia Academy of Fine Arts, Moscow
"Russian constructiviste date: care of the present time". Art Gallery of the University of Maryland, State of New Hampshire, Dickinson College in Pennsylvania, the World Bank in Washington, DC
"It` sa better world ". Museum Secession, Austria, Vienna; Art Forum Gallery, Merano, Italy (catalog)
International Art Fair "Art Manege", RM. Manege, Moscow (catalog
Autobiographical notes

The modern world technical. Technology seems to me some new space encountered in the evolution of mankind, which he will pass. Since 1962, I mastered some form of art, . where technical pathos was clear - this is a geometric art, . kinetic art, . Art Region futures projects and, . Finally, . since 1976 Form, . which is called "Artifacts".,
. The latter is determined by the interest in the artistic synthesis, I have seen through the designed game interaction between the artificial object and nature.
. Trying to understand the sense of mystery, owning my consciousness for many years, I somehow suddenly discovered an indescribable depth of the word "artifact"
. And before this discovery, I, of course, uttered the word, along with many others, but each time, apparently, does not merge with the infinity of its meaning. When the floor was opened - it was mine, filled with meaning, which matured in my submissions. Here I will focus on those that are relevant to assimilate my artistic system.
The word "artifact" the thing a second nature, it is a thing made by man and, therefore, autonomous in relation to nature. And although the pathos of autonomy of the artifact to be trusted with caution, because its creator - a man - also the component nature, yet symbolically important moment of the isolation of the artifact as an artificial object, additional to the nature of. This autonomy of the artifact is important to identify new artistic links between the artificial object and nature. From the artistic interpretation of the artifact is related another - as Artfakta, which requires the full presence of the creative artist.
Further understanding of the artifact due to the tradition, culture. Here he appears as a symbolic eternal reality, as something, which can not be, but mysteriously that happens. Artifact in ancient cultures - a symbol of secrecy. In ancient Persia - a black stele-parallelepiped. In Amirabadskoy culture - is also a stele, but with twisted at 90 degrees relative to each other opposite bases.
The artifacts suggest the infinity of the world, the connection of all things a secret, really, this world is filled
. Criticism
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. Francisco Infante is an artist of paradox.
. Not only, . that case and the game are central to his artistic vision, . but, . Like many other artists, . working in geometric or constructivist tradition, . he always chooses for himself the difficult path between the logical and illogical, . aesthetic ritual and a rejection of this ritual,
. Paying tribute to the mathematical properties of the order, . savings in material and efficiency of modern technology, . Infante again and again to nourish the idea of "accident" - this "suddenly" a fairy tale, . which, . as he wrote in 1918, critic Abram Efros, . is a hallmark of primitive or child art.,
. At first it may seem vzgyada, . that this identification of art Infante with a children's wonderland somewhat diminishes his dignity, . but actually, . This ability to make mistakes, . bypass and to provide a new, . unexpected light visual norms and conventions has always been and still is a decisive impetus to the creation of original art,
. We Infante this element of randomness and absurdity is particularly intriguing because of the conspicuous clear external organization, . structural ordering and cold proschitannosti, . inherent in his work - the design, . photographs and utilitarian projects,
. It acts as an engineer in aerodynamics, which, although it takes into account all possible options and chance, always bases its projects on a rigorous set of mathematical ratios.
. Perhaps the analogy would have liked very Infante - an artist who is always optimistic and expressed enthusiasm about the possibilities of science and technology - from video cameras to intergalactic travel
. And the result is the worship of deep faith, a common and for an engineer, and for the artist, that the essence of life - is a process, not the result, a plurality, not singularity. By the way, why is it so important to treat your photos Infante, not as a static "art", namely as a document recording his artifacts, themselves, in turn, just moments continuum. After Infante began his artistic career with the group "Movement" in Moscow in 1962, just as an artist Kineticist.
. If everything around us - the process, motion and serial, how can an artist to "stop the world and leave" N in the 1970's and 80's Infante tried to solve this problem in his conception of an artifact - a geometric object rendered in the natural environment. "
. Acting on this method, the artist sets of different size mirrors at various angles to the natural landscape (which can be ground, sand, snow, water, foliage, etc.) so as to achieve optical ambiguity
. Airiness of these mirrors, . their reflectivity impression, . that these objects are in fact an integral part of the environment, . ie, . that they themselves creations of nature, . and not human, . whereas the distorted images, . they pose to the contrary - that they are strangers in this environment,
. As a result, Infante can not install a series of interactions between nature, . artist and the spectator, . thereby turning to the crucial dichotomy of "natural" and "artificial" and then he captures the individual moments, . or "units" of the visual experience in Photos, . which subsequently often mixes, . creating new cycles (such as a photo album "Presence"),
. Again Infante solves this problem a paradox, defining the artist as a mediator between the "natural" and "non-natural".
. It found its clearest expression in the snow performances, . he and his wife Nonna Goryunova spent in the 70 years, . and in which strange creatures theatrical performed hieratic dances in the snow, combined urban and rural, . such as the march series of carrier bags on the ground in the water (1977), and in the game with the trees and the foil (80-e), . When Infante fixed the pieces of foil with different intervals on the trunks and branches of trees, . At the same time preserving the impression, . that the foil remains front and is in equilibrium.,
. Refined discourse of these artifacts leads us to question the very notions of "here" and "there", "close" and "far", "symmetry" and "asymmetry".
. These common denominators - the process, the game, the artist as a mediator - native art Infante with the traditions of Russian avant-garde, in particular with the works of Malevich, Gabo, Alexander Rodchenko and Vladimir Tatlin
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Dzh.E.Bolt. Catalog of the exhibition "Francisco Infante from Moscow" International Images Ltd., Sevikli, USA, 1989