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Collector George Costakis
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport)
(England-Import)
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| One pubIic housing fIat in Moscow stood out about alI others: the home of George Costakis, the foremost collector of early 20th Century Russian Avant-garde art. lts walls were crowded with banned and forgotten works by artists such as Malevich, TatIin, Kandinsky, ChagalI, Lissizky, Rodchencko, and KIiun; public figures such as Edward Kennedy, Stravinsky, and AIfred 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 would not have survived the political upheavaIs in Russia. George Costakis was on 5th of JuIy 1913, the son of Greek immigrants who had settIed in Tsarist Russia around 1900. Although he grew up in weII-off orthodox circIes of the educated, Costakis never received a school diploma. He worked as a chauffer for the Greek, later the Canadian embassy, where he continued to be empIoyed untiI the end of his professional life. While the Avant-garde scene was in fuIl swing the young colIector did not find it all that intriguing aIthough 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 tabIes or shutters. In the end, he collected work from around 85 artists. Costakis was an untiring ideaIist and saved the heritage of one of the most significant modern movements from destruction. |
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