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Yuri Nikiforov
about the artist
Yuri Nikiforov (known creatively as the Colonel) was born in 1947 in Leningrad. Following his studies at the Leningrad Vera Mukhina Higher School of Art and Design, he started exhibiting his works in Leningrad in the late 1970s. Founder of the ArtRange experimental exhibition space within the Pushkinskaya-10 art centre and co-founder of the seminal Parasite artistic collective, the artist lived and worked in St. Petersburg and passed away in July 2016.
Nikiforov has left behind a substantial number of brutalist large-scale panels, paintings, and objects fusing natural and industrial materials like glass, iron, sand, soil, tar, bread, rebars, etc.
