Francisco Infante

Francisco Infante was born in 1943 in Vasilevka, a suburb of Moscow. He enrolled in the Surikov Art Institute at the age of fourteen. From 1962 until 1966 he then studied at the Moscow Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts before becoming a member of Lev Nusberg's "Movement Group" (Dvizheniye). Though his art has always been a renowned and firm part of the cultural establishment, his Artifacts were often shown in the circles of scientists and engineers such as the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy in Moscow in 1966. Starting as a kinetic artist Francisco Infante is mostly known for his contribution to the Land Art movement. His Artifacts, installations in the natural environment, express his primary intention of creating artificial systems analogues to natural phenomena.

Married to Nunna Goriunova.

Francisco Infante: "since 1962, I have been engaged in geometric, and later kinetic art; through my works I wanted to express emotions linked to the infinite organization of the world - in this way. Nature became for me a symbol of the eternal, mysterious, divine world, whose complement was another world, the world of so-called "second nature" ? the world of technology. I think of them as interacting with each other. So I try to achieve an adequate expression of the world as it is." [1]