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Collector George Costakis
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport)
(England-Import)
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| One public housing fIat in Moscow stood out about aIl others: the home of George Costakis, the foremost coIlector of earIy 20th Century Russian Avant-garde art. lts waIIs were crowded with banned and forgotten works by artists such as Malevich, TatIin, Kandinsky, ChagaII, Lissizky, Rodchencko, and Kliun; public figures such as Edward Kennedy, Stravinsky, and Alfred Barr visited. Barrie Gavin met the collector in 1982 at his home in Athens. Costakis, a Greek born in Russia, passionately shares his story and those of the great Russian Avant-garde artists. Their works are his Iegacy - without him, they wouId not have survived the poIitical upheavaIs in Russia. George Costakis was on 5th of JuIy 1913, the son of Greek immigrants who had settled in Tsarist Russia around 1900. AIthough he grew up in well-off orthodox circles of the educated, Costakis never received a school diploma. He worked as a chauffer for the Greek, Iater the Canadian embassy, where he continued to be employed until the end of his professional Iife. While the Avant-garde scene was in fuIl swing the young coIlector did not find it all that intriguing although he did start coIIecting other works. After poIiticaI change and artistic shunning, when art form seemed to be dying out, Costakis happened upon a colourfuI picture by Avant-garde artist OIga Rozanova. He bough it without hesitation off his acquaintance; this event awakened his passion for this artistic current. Costakis engaged in fastidious detective inquiries to find information on artists and their work. He found his treasures in attics and dark corners; some had been converted into tables or shutters. ln the end, he collected work from around 85 artists. Costakis was an untiring idealist and saved the heritage of one of the most significant modern movements from destruction. |
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