Zurab Tsereteli
Zurab Tsereteli (Georgian ზურაბ წერეთელი; Russian Зураб Константинович Церетели; born January 4, 1934 in Tbilisi ) is a Georgian- Russian sculptor, visual artist and architect. His monumental statues in Moscow, Paris, London, New York and Seville.
Life
1952 to 1958 he studied at the Art Academy in Tbilisi, took classes there for painting.
In 1967 he designed his first public works, mosaic pylons and sculptures for a hotel complex in Pizunda, Abkhazia, designed mosaics and windows for the Palace of Culture and the main bus station in Georgia's capital Tbilisi. Later he created friezes and wall paintings for diplomatic missions of the Soviet Union in Brasília ( 1973-74 ), Lisbon (1974 ), Damascus (1975 ), Tokyo (1976 ), Osaka ( 1978) and Washington, DC (1986).
1970 to 1980 he designed the building of the Soviet Foreign Ministry in Moscow. In 1980, he was responsible for the construction of the Olympic Summer Games in Moscow.
In 1979, his first monument, Happiness to the Children of the World, for the Special Olympics in Brockport in upstate New York. In 1989 the statue destruction of the wall of mistrust in London, which was to symbolize the end of the Cold War. In 1990, the bronze statue was Good defeated evil, a gift from the Soviet Union for the UN Headquarters in New York. It shows the St. George fighting a dragon. Used for the 40 ton and 11.89 meter high sculpture Tsereteli parts of scrapped Pershing and SS - 20 missiles.
In the 1990s he coined with the urban image of Moscow. From 1992 he participated in the construction of the Christ the Savior Cathedral. In 1995 he erected on behalf President Boris Yeltsin's a monument to mark the 50th anniversary of the victory of the Soviet Union in the Moscow Victory Park ( German: Victory Park ). It is a 141.8 -meter-high bronze obelisk is decorated with reliefs showing the names of the mighty cities and sculptures of Saint George and the goddess of victory Nike. In 1997 he designed the Manege Square near the Kremlin wall and built the 94 -meter high monument to Peter I on an artificial island between the Moskva River and the water diversion channel. This monument to Peter the Great was supposed to represent Christopher Columbus, but neither the Dominican Republic, nor Venezuela, Brazil still wanted by Zurab Tsereteli have a memorial for the 500th anniversary of the discovery of America.
In Seville he erected in 1995 in honor of Christopher Columbus, the 45 -meter high monument birth of a new human being. 2006 New Jersey his memorial To the Struggle Against World Terrorism, Bayonne was inaugurated. The 30 -meter high bronze statue is dedicated to the victims of September 11, 2001.
Tsereteli founded in 1999 in Moscow, the first Russian museum of modern art, the Tsereteli Art Gallery, which he donated his private collection of art of the 20th century.
In 1997, he became president of the Russian Academy of Arts. Since 1996, Tsereteli 's Good- Will Ambassador of UNESCO. He is also a corresponding member of the French Academy of Fine Arts in Paris and the Royal San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid.
Tsereteli work is controversial because of its proximity to the Soviet regime. His 1983 200th Anniversary of the Treaty created Georgievsk Monument Eternal Friendship (35 meters high), was demolished by Georgia after 1991.
Awards
Works
- Tragediia narodov: Memorial zhertvam VOIN i XX vek katastrof. Alpha Press, Moskva 2003 ( with Aleksandr Zakharchenko, D. Webber )