Anatoliy Chudinovskikh

Anatoliy Chudinovskikh's pictures were exhibited at the Russian House in 2010 at the G20 summit. The artist was born in Kirov, Soviet Union in 1937. After an early childhood in a family subjected to political repression, his parents moved to Kharkov when he was ten years old. There his father worked at the Malyshev plant. After completing seventh grade, Anatoliy decided to complete pilot training at the Kharkov Flight School. However, his class was terminated after two years of training. From 1957 to 1961 he completed his art teaching studies at the Charkov Art School. 1964-1966 Anatoliy Chudinovskikh studied painting at the State Art Institute, Kharkov. In the 1960s he worked as a poster painter and designer and became friends with the artist Vagrich Bakhchanyan, who later emigrated to the United States and worked there with the writers Sergei Dovlatov and Alexander Genis. The third of this group of artists was Evgeny Jolos-Solovyov, who designed the Pushkinskaya metro station in Kharkov. Three non-conformists defied the realism that prevailed at the time with their own formalistic approaches. Until the early 1970s, Anatloliy Chudinovskikh worked as a stage and theater poster painter at the Kharkov Dramatic Alexander Pushkin Theater, where he made particular contributions to the production of theater performances in collaboration with the painter Oleg Tselkov. From 1970 to 1989 he worked as a designer - primarily of posters and stained glass - in the artists' combine, city of Kharkov and for other institutions. Around this time he became friends with the artist Pavel Taiber. From 1990 to 1996 he worked as a theater painter, stage painter, graphic artist and theater poster painter at the Kharkiv State Academic Ukrainian Dramatic Taras Shevchenko Theater. The artist has lived and worked in Cologne since 1997.