ZHELTOV Yury Ivanovich

1942 (Moscow)

Painter, photographer

Zheltov Yury was born in Moscow.

In 1955 he entered the 1st-ю Moscow city art school for children (MSDHS) on Prechistenka street, where he studied М. С. Перуцкого, А. И. Шугрина, student М. К. Соколова and А. М. Глускина, student К. Костанди and Ю. Бершадского, one of the founders of the society "KNIFE" (1922). With Glycinin and Surinam, who played a major role in the formation of Ю. Желтова as an artist, he had not only the years of apprenticeship, but subsequent to a long friendship.

In 1958 he graduated from MDHS, and in 1965-м — artistic-графический faculty of Moscow state pedagogical Institute n. a. Lenin. The same year he began to participate in exhibitions in Moscow. In 1975 был joined the Union of artists of the USSR.

Since the late 1950-х to mid 1960-х, painting Ю. Желтова was close to post-impressionism. The need for a different plastic language led him in the late 1960-х of years to a more lapidary style and design. Most of the works of this period are in foreign collections. In 1971-1973, the artist experiments in geometric abstraction, and in a few years begins to work exclusively in this style.

In the second half of 1980-х, the artist got recognition. A large number of his works were acquired by foreign collectors began to receive offers of cooperation from Western galleries. In 1989 Zheltov accepted the invitation of the famous Paris gallery Denise Rene, the name of which is associated not only appearance wholesale-арта and kinetic art, but also the development of the tradition of constructive art in General. (Since 1944, the gallery is the world's largest center for constructive art with which he has worked in almost all significant European and American artists in this field. For decades, the gallery presents the work of various masters of geometric abstraction, from Kandinsky, Mondrian, Malevich, Kupka to ARPA, Albers, Vasarely, Polyakova and contemporary artists.) In the same year he held his first solo exhibition at Denise rené. Since then, for twenty years, he has been collaborating with the gallery, lives and works in Paris and Moscow.