NIKONOVA, Rea

Nikonova is arguably the premier Russian avant-gardist of today, having created an enormous and varied body of innovative work, some of which clearly relates to the futurist tradition, but much of which is entirely new. She received a musical education in Sverdlovsk, was one of the main organizers of the Uktus School there, and of the manuscript journal Nomer. She began to write seriously in 1959 and to paint in 1962, producing numerous pictures and drawings per day. With her husband...