Kalugin Alexander

Born in Estonia. Since 1954 he has lived and worked in Moscow. In 1965-67 he studied in the studio of the then disgraced artist Vladimir Weisberg, and in 1970-71 in the studio of Boris Kozlov. He first began exhibiting in 1972 in the USA, followed by exhibitions in Switzerland, England, France, Holland, Austria, Italy, and in the Soviet Union during these years he exhibited only at apartment or informal exhibitions, in Izmailovsky Park and the Culture Pavilion at VDNKh. More than twenty works by Kalugin are in the American Museum of Contemporary Art “Zimmerli”, New Jersey. The largest collection of early works by Alexander Kalugin is in the Grinnell College Museum of Iowa, USA. Kalugin's works are also in the largest private collections of Russian and foreign art of the 20th century: George Costakis, Leonid Talochkin, Evgeniy Nutovich, as well as in many public and private collections in the USA and Europe. In 1998, at the International Festival of Contemporary Art, held in Florida in the USA, Kalugin received First and Second Prizes in the competition for the best graphics and painting. Since 2002, Alexander Kalugin has been working in cinema. He created a series of graphic works for the television film of the same name based on Boris Akunin’s novel “Azazel” and the documentary film “Pilgrimage to the Eternal City” directed by Vladimir Khotinenko.