Artist Sergei Bugaev, known under the pseudonym of Africa, is accused of misappropriation of paintings by Oleg Zaika, Yevgeny Kozlov Oleg Maslov and Inala Savchenkova

Evgenij Kozlov paintings on display
« ACCA the latest generation of the Leningrad avant-garde "in the Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts
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Artists Oleg Bunny , Yevgeny Kozlov Oleg Maslov, Inal Savchenko accused the artist Sergei Bugaev (Africa) with illegal possession of pictures of their authorship. It's about 25 works made in the 1980s. The paintings that the artists were considered lost, were presented at the exhibition and in the catalog "ACCA: the latest generation of the Leningrad avant-garde" in May - June 2013 at the Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg. Organizer - "Institute of the New Man" by Sergei Bugaev appearing in the catalog as a "supervisor" of the exhibition.

This exhibition led by Saint Petersburg's artists to go to court with a claim to Sergei Bugaev and Museum of the Academy of Fine Arts for the recovery of works of art from illegal possession. In the 1980s, artists plaintiffs put their pictures together with Sergei Bugaev the exhibitions "New Artists" - the most famous of the Leningrad avant-garde. They showed both in Russia and abroad, including in Sweden, England, Denmark, USA. Many of the pictures presented in these exhibitions were not returned to their authors. Back in the 1990s, Hannelore Fobo, a German art historian and curator of the art Evgenij Kozlov, was actively engaged in the search for his lost works, but they have failed. Now, at the "ACCA" found five of these paintings, including the iconic portrait of George Guryanova 1988.

is significant that neither the exhibition "ACCA", or in the catalog were not specified names of the owners of the above pictures. Artists have failed to convince Sergei Bugaev voluntarily return their pictures, which would have the opportunity to avoid litigation. Court hearings on the claims of artists will be held 8 and 12 August 2013 in the Dzerzhinsky district court of St. Petersburg.

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