The artist Vladimir Yankilevsky died

On January 4, in Paris, at the age of 79, a Russian artist died, one of the founders of Moscow conceptualism Vladimir Yankilevsky. This was announced at his FB page Cultural Student Alec Epstein.

Yankilevsky was born on February 15, 1938 in Moscow in the family of the artist Boris Yankilevsky. In 1962 he graduated from the Moscow Polygraphic Institute.

In November 1962, he took part in the resonant exhibition "Taganka". After a few days of the artist’s work from Taganka, they were represented in the arena at the exhibition “30 years of the Moscow Region”. The first secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU, Nikita Khrushchev, who appeared there, in a conversation with Yankilevsky, called him Triptih No. 2 "Two Principles" of the "Messes".

In subsequent years, Yankilevsky earned as a book-former artist. The painting and graphics of the artist were not exhibited for a long time. Only in 1975 he took part in the exhibition in the Pavilion "Beekeeping" at VDNH, and the first personal exhibition of the artist was held in Moscow in 1978.

In 1989, Yankilevsky emigrated and settled in Paris.

The painting and graphics of the artist are presented in the leading museums of the world, including the Paris Center Pompidu, the Dresden Gallery, the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, the Zimmerley Museum (collection of non-conformist art) in New Bransyka, New Jersey. In Russia, Yankilevsky’s works are, in particular, in the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the Russian Museum.

In July 2010, Yankilevsky signed the collective appeal of artists to President Dmitry Medvedev with a demand to stop the persecution of Andrei Erofeev and Yuri Samodurov , accused of extremism for the organization of the Forbidden Art -2006 exhibition.