George Pusenkoff, large scale "New Life" GLASNOST Moscow, Russia 1988 Post Soviet Painting 1988

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GEORGE PUSENKOFF (RUSSIAN Born 1953), "New Life" 1988, mixed media (paint, ribbon, Metallic foil) on canvas, 160 x 200 cm … more GEORGE PUSENKOFF (RUSSIAN Born 1953), "New Life" 1988, mixed media (paint, ribbon, Metallic foil) on canvas, 160 x 200 cm (63 x 78 3/4 in.), signed and titled verso in Cyrillic, and dated on verso,

George Pusenkoff, Russian painter and installation artist, spent most of his formative years in Moscow. In his early career, Puskenoff worked predominantly with acrylic, rendering vibrant forms at various stages of abstraction, though he gave them titles that anchored them in specific narrative contexts, often referencing historical (and art-historical) subject matter, as in Kidnapping of Europe (1988) and Bronzino, Ciccolina and Yves Klein (1992). Pusenkoff painted his first digital border in 1996, simulating the 8bit look of the first computerized windows. He continued to experiment with the visual language of the computer screen, at times using just the browser window bar as an abstracted geometrical form. He invokes famous icons of modern art such as Kazimir Malevich’s Black Square, Josef Albers’ Homage to the Square or Piet Mondrian’s reduced geometric paintings and transfers them into a new aesthetic.
In 1996, Pusenkoff painted his version of Andy Warhol’s take on the iconic Renaissance Da Vinci original: his silk screened Mona Lisa (1999), surrounded by a browser box, became the basis for an ongoing, travelling installation, exhibited internationally in site-specific structures made up of repeating Mona Lisa modules.
Pusenkoff's work has been exhibited internationally at venues including the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, Moscow's Museum of Modern Art, and the 2005 Venice Biennale.

MUSEUMS AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:

Art Collection Rockefeller University, New York, USA Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany Markisches Museum, Witten, Germany Museum Bochum, Bochum, Germany Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany Museum Ludwig, Koblenz, Germany Museum Ritter, Sammlung Marli Hoppe-Ritter, Waldenbuch, Germany State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
Neues Museum, Weserburg, Bremen
Museum of Cultural History, Osnabruck
Jewish Museum, Westfalen
Musée de La Poste, Paris


PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:

Bolschoj-Theater-Museum, Moscow
Museum Ludwig in State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
Foundation of Ministry of Culture, Moscow
MIET ()Moscow Technical University), Zelenograd
Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Germany
Museum Ludwig, Koblenz; Germany
Markisches Museum, Witten; Germany
Judisches Museum Westfalen, Dorsten; Germany
Museum RiOppe-Ritter, Waldenbuch/ Stuttgart; Germany
Sammlung des Bundeslandes Hessen, Germany
Sammlung des Bundesministeriums fur Arbeit, Berlin; Germany
DaimlerBenz Collection, Stuttgart; Germany
Nord LB Collection, Braunschweig, Germany
Collection KfW Bank, Frankfurt /Main, Germany
Collection Solomon Oppenheim Bank, Cologne, Germany
Collection Deutsche Sparkassen Verlag, Stuttgart, Germany
Collection Ernst & Jung, Stuttgart; Germany
Collection of the community Synagogue, Cologne; Germany
Collection of the Jewish Center for Culture and Art, Cologne, Germany
Collection La Reserve, Geneva, Switzerland
Stella Art Fondation, Moscow
“Contemporary City”, Fondation, Moscow
Art Collection Rockfeller University, New York, USA
Art Collection of the Fondation of the Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy less