Zurab Tsereteli

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Zurab Tsereteli with Eunice Shriver

Zurab Tsereteli ( Georgia ზურაბ წერეთელი ; Russian Зураб Константинович Церетели ; * 4. January 1934 in Tbilisi ) is a Georgian - Russian sculptor, visual artist and architect. His monumental statues can be found in Moscow , Paris , London , New York , Seville and other cities.

Life

Pool of the children's sanatorium in Adler
War memorial in Pobedy Park

From 1952 to 1958 he studied at the Art Academy in Tbilisi, where he took painting classes.

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 bus station in Georgia's capital Tbilisi. He later created friezes and wall paintings for diplomatic missions of the Soviet Union in Brasília (1973–1974), 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 buildings for the Summer Olympics in Moscow.

In 1979 his first memorial, Happiness to the Children of the World , was created for the Special Olympics in Brockport , New York State . In 1989 the statue Destruction of the Wall of Suspicion in London followed, which was to symbolize the end of the Cold War. In 1990 the bronze statue Gut defeated Böse was created , a gift from the Soviet Union for the UN headquarters in New York. It shows Saint George fighting a dragon. For the 40-ton, 11.89-meter-high sculpture, Tsereteli used parts of scrapped Pershing and SS-20 rockets.

In the 1990s he helped shape the urban image of Moscow. From 1992 he participated in the construction of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior . In 1995, on behalf of President Boris Yeltsin, he erected a memorial for the 50th anniversary of the victory of the Soviet Union in Moscow's Pobedy Park (German: Siegespark ). It is a 141.8 m high bronze obelisk , which is adorned with reliefs with the names of the hero cities as well as sculptures of St. George and the goddess of victory Nike . In 1997 he designed the arena at the Kremlin wall and erected the 94 m high monument to Peter I on an artificial island between the Moskva River and the water diversion canal . This monument to Peter the Great was originally intended to depict Christopher Columbus , but neither the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, nor Brazil wanted a monument from Zurab Tsereteli to mark the 500th anniversary of the discovery of America.

In 1995 he erected the 45 meter high monument Birth of a New Man in Seville in honor of Christopher Columbus . In 2006, his To the Struggle Against World Terrorism memorial was inaugurated in Bayonne , New Jersey . The 30 meter high bronze statue is dedicated to the victims of September 11, 2001.

Tsereteli founded the first Russian museum for modern art, the Tsereteli Art Gallery , in Moscow in 1999 , to which he donated his private collection of works of art from the 20th century.

In 1997 he became president of the Russian Academy of Arts . Tsereteli has been a UNESCO Good Will Ambassador since 1996 . He is also a corresponding member of the French Academy of Arts in Paris and the Royal San Fernando Academy of Arts in Madrid .

Tsereteli's work is not without controversy because of its proximity to the Soviet regime. His monument Eternal Friendship (35 meters high), created in 1983 to mark the 200th anniversary of the Georgievsk Treaty , was demolished in Georgia after 1991.

In 2004 the bronze memorial for Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill was cast, which was to commemorate the Yalta Conference from 2005. However, Ukraine indignantly renounced the monument. After the annexation of Crimea by Russia , the sculpture was inaugurated in February 2015.

Awards

Works

  • Tragediia narodov: Memorial zhertvam voĭn i katastrof XX vek . AlphaPress, Moskva 2003 (with Aleksandr Zakharchenko, D. Webber)

literature

  • Lev Efimovich Kolodnyĭ: Artist Zurab Tsereteli: A chronicle, with citations from the main character . Golos-Press, Moscow 2004, ISBN 5-7117-0503-2
  • Rossijskaja Akademija Chudožestv (ed.): Tvorčestvo ZK Cereteli v kontekste razvitija iskusstva XX-XXI vekov: (k jubileju chudožnika) 17 fevralja 2004 goda . Tvorčeskie masterskie, Moskva 2004
  • Oleg Zvidkovskij (Ed.): Zurab Cereteli . Planeta, Moscow 1994, ISBN 5-85250-592-7
  • Jurij Ivanovic Nechorosev: Zurab Cereteli: albom . Sovetskij Chudoznik, Moskva 1976
  • Nodar Janberije: Zurab Cereteli . Izdat. Chelovneba, Tbilisi 1976
  • Film “Metropolis of the East-Moscow”, rbb, therein description of the works of Zereteli, 43 min.

Web links

Commons : Zurab Tsereteli  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Copper Giants : Why Russia Longs for Stalinist Boots , Forbes.ru, February 10, 2015 (Russian)
personal data
SURNAME Tsereteli, Zurab
ALTERNATIVE NAMES ზურაბ წერეთელი (Georgian); Церетели, Зураб Константинович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Georgian sculptor and painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Tbilisi , Georgian SSR