Difference between revisions of "Lev Nusberg"
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− | Born 1937. | + | Born '''Lev Valdemarovich Nusberg''' in 1937 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Soviet Union. Son of a German victim of the gulag and a Tatar mother. He graduated from the Moscow Art School (MSKhSh). The eye-opening for him was the Picasso exhibition in Moscow (1956). He formed the [[Dvizheniye]] group (1962-74) whose members included [[Francisco Infante]] and [[Viacheslav Koleichuk]] among others. The aim of the group was to create 'bio-centric' systems called ''Igrovye Bioniko-Kineticheskie Sistemy'' [playful bionic-kinetic systems]. A charismatic leader, Nusberg attracted people, but some members of the group (particularly Infante) found his management style 'totalitarian'. Nusberg emigrated to the United States in 1974, and led a hermetic life afterwards. In 1977 he participated at Documenta 6. He moved from kinetic art to surrealist painting, and keeps rewriting the history of the movement. |
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+ | File:Nusberg_Lev_1963_Construction_2.jpg|''Construction 2'', 1963. | ||
+ | File:Nusberg_Lev_1967_Kinetic_Structure.jpg|''Kinetic Sculpture'', 1967. | ||
+ | </gallery> | ||
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Revision as of 01:31, 24 January 2013
Born Lev Valdemarovich Nusberg in 1937 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Soviet Union. Son of a German victim of the gulag and a Tatar mother. He graduated from the Moscow Art School (MSKhSh). The eye-opening for him was the Picasso exhibition in Moscow (1956). He formed the Dvizheniye group (1962-74) whose members included Francisco Infante and Viacheslav Koleichuk among others. The aim of the group was to create 'bio-centric' systems called Igrovye Bioniko-Kineticheskie Sistemy [playful bionic-kinetic systems]. A charismatic leader, Nusberg attracted people, but some members of the group (particularly Infante) found his management style 'totalitarian'. Nusberg emigrated to the United States in 1974, and led a hermetic life afterwards. In 1977 he participated at Documenta 6. He moved from kinetic art to surrealist painting, and keeps rewriting the history of the movement.
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