Eduard Gorokhovsky: From Siberia to Moscow

Eduard Gorokhovsky: From Siberia to Moscow, Selected Works on Paper from the Kolodzei Art Foundation, features selected drawings from the 1960s and early 1970s by prominent Russian artist Eduard Gorokhovsky (1929-2004) while he was living and working in Novosibirsk and artist's prints and drawings from his Moscow period.

Gorokhovsky was born in 1929 in Vinnytsa, Ukraine. In 1954 he graduated from the Odessa Engineering and Building Institute, majoring in architecture. His first solo exhibition took place in 1967 in Novosibirsk. In 1973 Gorokhovsky moved from Novosibirsk to Moscow. He lived and worked in Offenbach, Germany from 1991 until his death in 2004. Gorokhovsky participated in many exhibitions in Russia, the United States, and Europe; his paintings and works on paper are in major museums around the world. Gorokhovsky was one of the first Soviet Nonconformist artists to use old photographic portraits, into which he inserted a text, a silhouette, as the main source for his prints