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Genia Chef

1954, Aktjubinsk, Kazakhstan, USSR

 

Eternal City, 2003

Plotter print on paper, 85 x 160 cm

Acquisition: Gift

Reference: 04017

 

Biography

Genia Chef (born Evgeny Scheffer, 28 January 1954) is a German-Russian artist (painting, graphic art, installations) living in Berlin. He is considered the founder of Post-Historicism, an art movement that combines elements of traditional painting with aesthetic experiments and interprets current events in the form of a new mythology. 

This short introduction to the biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Full entry at wikipedia.org/wiki/Genia_Chef

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