Viktor Pivovarov (b. 1937) is an artist, illustrator, writer, and art theorist, one the founders of Moscow Conceptualism. He represented Soviet Nonconformist Art and was one of the leading artists of the Moscow Conceptualist artistic movement of the 1970s, along with Ilya Kabakov, Erik Bulatov, and Irina Nakhova. His work reflected the complete ideologization of the Soviet lifestyle, often simultaneously expressing criticism and nostalgia for this lifestyle. Nakhova relates that Pivovarov was a major influence and first inspired her to paint.
Pivovarov was also a prolific illustrator of children's books, with over 50 books to his credit. He moved from Moscow to Prague in 1982, and continues to live there to date. (c)Tate
COLLECTIONS:
-Tate Modern, London
-Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany
-Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, Germany
- ane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA
-Kolodzei Art Foundation, USA
-The National Gallery Prague, Prague, Czech
-The Museum of Avant-Garde Mastery, Switzerland
- State Tretyakov gallery, Moscow, Russia
-The Pushkin State museum of fine arts, Moscow
-State Russian museum, Saint-Petersburg, Russia