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VASILY KAFANOV TOWER & FACE #3 1990

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Vasily Kafanov (Russian, 1952). Mixed media on Canvas. Born in Moscow, Vasily Kafanov was the son of a poet father and journalist mother and was raised in a one-room, multi-generational household typical of conditions during the country's direhousing shortage. He first studied textile design at the Department of Applied Arts of the prestigious Moscow Technological Institute, receiving his degree in 1978. In 1984, he was awarded a second degree in animation from theMinistry of Film. Kafanov has had a distinguished career in Russia, becoming a member of the prestigious and world-renowned Artist Union. In spite of being a protégé of Marc Chagall, his work was largely unknown in the West until the late1980's. Today he resides in New York where he keeps working on his paintings. The trademark of his artistic creation is the @, an emblem best explained by the artist himself: "When I was born, the first thing I saw out thematernity ward window on the outskirts of Moscow was a bell tower. It was an old bell tower, used by the soldiers practicing parachute jumps. As a child I desperately wanted a fish bowl. For hours I could watch fish swimming in the water.

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