THE BEST RUSSIAN CONTEMPORARY ARTIST

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The Art Index (AIx, The Best Russian Contemporary Artists) is a list (unranked art rating) of artists from Russia and the Russian abroad, no older than 1960, compiled on the basis of indicators for evaluating achievements, popularity, creative activity of authors, and expert recommendations.
It is aimed primarily at collectors and all connoisseurs of contemporary art.

Ostretsov Georgy

1967

About

Georgy Ostretsov included in the list of the Best Russian contemporary artists (ARTEEX). Georgy Ostretsov, born in 1967 in Moscow. He studied at a sham at the school at the Bolshoi Theater (Moscow). In 1984, he became a member of the Kindergarten group together with artists Georgy Litichevsky, Andrey Roiter, German Vinogradov and Nikolay Filatov, and in 1985 he joined the Leningrad association New Artists (Timur Novikov, Oleg Kotelnikov, Sergey Bugaev, Ivan Sotnikov and others). In 1988 he moved to France. He lived in Paris. He worked in fashion and advertising as an artist. Collaborated with Jean-Charles de Castelbajac and Jean-Paul Gaultier and participated in the work on the characters of the characters of Luc Besson's film “Taxi”. In 1998 he returned to Moscow. In 2009 he represented Russia at the 53rd Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art. In 2010 he organized the community of artists "VGLAZ", The works are in collections: State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow; State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg; Moscow Museum of Modern Art of the Russian Academy of Arts, Moscow; Museum Arctic and Antarctic, St. Petersburg; Museum of Dreams Z. Freud, St. Petersburg; in private collections of Charles Saatchi, Simon de Pury, Lawrence Graff and etc.