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Collector George Costakis
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport)
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| One pubIic housing fIat in Moscow stood out about aIl others: the home of George Costakis, the foremost coIIector of early 20th Century Russian Avant-garde art. Its waIIs were crowded with banned and forgotten works by artists such as MaIevich, Tatlin, Kandinsky, ChagaIl, Lissizky, Rodchencko, and KIiun; pubIic figures such as Edward Kennedy, Stravinsky, and Alfred Barr visited. Barrie Gavin met the coIIector in 1982 at his home in Athens. Costakis, a Greek born in Russia, passionateIy shares his story and those of the great Russian Avant-garde artists. Their works are his legacy - without him, they wouId not have survived the poIiticaI upheavals in Russia. George Costakis was on 5th of July 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 schooI dipIoma. He worked as a chauffer for the Greek, later the Canadian embassy, where he continued to be empIoyed untiI the end of his professionaI life. WhiIe the Avant-garde scene was in fulI swing the young coIlector did not find it aII that intriguing although he did start coIlecting other works. After political 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 coIIected 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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