GOROKHOVSKY Eduard Semenovich

June 12, 1929 (Vinnytsia) — June 30, 2004 (Moscow)

Graphic artist

In 1954 Eduard Gorokhovsky graduated from Odessa Construction Institute, the faculty of architecture. He worked as an architect.

I left architecture at that moment when I had understood that it had been impossible to be engaged in real architecture in our country. There were only typical projects, which we had to carry out in accordance with concrete places. And we could not do anything more, we were not allowed to create something different. In two years after graduation from the institute, I forgot what architecture was. I was engaged in book illustration, easel graphic art; I worked a lot in watercolor.

In 1974 I moved to Moscow, where my new life began, where I met a lot of interesting artists. I had to change my attitude to art. In Moscow my works were being exposed at exhibitions, at first at the so-called apartment exhibitions, because the art, which we were engaged in, was informal, unrecognized.

(Excerpt from an interview with E. Gorokhovsky, November 12, 2002)

In 1955 Gorokhovsky took part in the exhibition of Novosibirsk Union of Artists. He was a member of the USSR Union of Artists since 1968.

Personal exhibitions of the artist were held in the exhibition hall of the USSR Union of Artists in Novosibirsk (1967); in Canberra, Australia (1979); in the Pervaya Galereya (“The First Gallery”) in Moscow (1989) and others.

Since 1974 Gorokhovsky participated in unofficial, semi-official and official exhibitions in his country and abroad:
1977 — Avant-garde Art in Soviet Union (Washington, USA);
1979 — Color, Form, Space (Municipal Committee of graphic art, Moscow);
1980 — Nonconformists (Maryland, USA);
1981 — 25 Years of Soviet Unofficial Art 1956–1981 (New York, USA);
1981 — Russian painting today (Paris, France);
1986 — Painting Exhibition (Municipal Committee of graphic art, Moscow);
1987 — Retrospection of Moscow Art 1957–87 (Hermitage, Moscow);
1988 — Art Exhibition of works from G. Basmadzhan’s collection (the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow; the State Hermitage, Leningrad);
1991 — the exhibition Other Art. Moscow. 1956-76 (the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow).

Works by Eduard Gorokhovsky are in many museum collections, including the State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (Moscow), the State Russian Museum (St. Petersburg), Dresden Picture Gallery (Germany), and in private collections in the USA, Switzerland, Greece and France.