{"id":800902,"date":"2026-02-23T15:12:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T14:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/numero.com\/?p=800902"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:12:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T14:12:56","slug":"artist-igor-chelkovski-alina-pinsky-gallery-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/numero.com\/en\/art-design\/numero-art-en\/artist-igor-chelkovski-alina-pinsky-gallery-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"Why (re)discover Russian non-conformist artist Igor Chelkovski at the Alina Pinsky gallery?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure data-wp-context=\"{&quot;imageId&quot;:&quot;6a20dff6ce488&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" data-wp-key=\"6a20dff6ce488\" class=\"wp-block-image size-large wp-lightbox-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--pointerdown=\"actions.preloadImage\" data-wp-on--pointerenter=\"actions.preloadImageWithDelay\" data-wp-on--pointerleave=\"actions.cancelPreload\" data-wp-on-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" src=\"https:\/\/numero.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/0S0A8257-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"View of the exhibition Dessins dans l&#x2019;air &#x2013; &#x152;uvres 1976-2024 by Igor Chelkovski Alina Pinsky gallery.\" class=\"wp-image-800495\"\/><button\n\t\t\tclass=\"lightbox-trigger\"\n\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\taria-haspopup=\"dialog\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--aria-label=\"state.thisImage.triggerButtonAriaLabel\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-init=\"callbacks.initTriggerButton\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-style--right=\"state.thisImage.buttonRight\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-style--top=\"state.thisImage.buttonTop\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\" fill=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 12 12\">\n\t\t\t\t<path fill=\"#fff\" d=\"M2 0a2 2 0 0 0-2 2v2h1.5V2a.5.5 0 0 1 .5-.5h2V0H2Zm2 10.5H2a.5.5 0 0 1-.5-.5V8H0v2a2 2 0 0 0 2 2h2v-1.5ZM8 12v-1.5h2a.5.5 0 0 0 .5-.5V8H12v2a2 2 0 0 1-2 2H8Zm2-12a2 2 0 0 1 2 2v2h-1.5V2a.5.5 0 0 0-.5-.5H8V0h2Z\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t<\/button><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">View of the exhibition \u201c<em>Dessins dans l\u2019air \u2013 \u0152uvres 1976-2024\u201d <\/em>dedicated to Igor Chelkovski at Alina Pinsky Paris. \u00a9 Alina Pinsky Gallery.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Igor Chelkovski, a non-conformist at his core<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Born in 1937 in Orenburg, USSR, <strong>Igor Chelkovski<\/strong> spent his childhood in the silence of the Stalinist purges. After his parents were arrested, he grew up with his grandmother in Moscow. At 20, he enrolled in the <strong>Academic School of Art<\/strong>, where he learned the discipline of drawing and the breath of volume. Very quickly, he joined the <strong>Nonconformists<\/strong>, an \u201cunderground\u201d circle of painters and sculptors who rejected the dogmas of Socialist Realism.<br\/><br\/>Unlike many of his contemporaries,\u00a0<strong>Chelkovski<\/strong> never made politics the main topic of his work. A deliberate, almost monastic, distance. \u201c<em>He is a serious man, a monk. You will never see politics in his art, but freedom instead<\/em>,\u201d <strong>Alina Pinsky<\/strong> says of Igor Chelkovski\u2019s works.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Russian artist fully claimed that freedom in 1976, when he left the USSR for good to settle in France. His studio, located in \u00c9lancourt, a former Templar monastery, became a place of meditation and work. <strong>Chelkovski<\/strong> calls it his \u201cbest work.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<figure data-wp-context=\"{&quot;imageId&quot;:&quot;6a20dff6cf6a4&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" data-wp-key=\"6a20dff6cf6a4\" class=\"wp-block-image size-large wp-lightbox-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--pointerdown=\"actions.preloadImage\" data-wp-on--pointerenter=\"actions.preloadImageWithDelay\" data-wp-on--pointerleave=\"actions.cancelPreload\" data-wp-on-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" src=\"https:\/\/numero.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/0S0A8076-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"View of the exhibition Dessins dans l&#x2019;air &#x2013; &#x152;uvres 1976-2024 by Igor Chelkovski Alina Pinsky gallery.\" class=\"wp-image-800487\"\/><button\n\t\t\tclass=\"lightbox-trigger\"\n\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\taria-haspopup=\"dialog\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--aria-label=\"state.thisImage.triggerButtonAriaLabel\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-init=\"callbacks.initTriggerButton\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-style--right=\"state.thisImage.buttonRight\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-style--top=\"state.thisImage.buttonTop\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\" fill=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 12 12\">\n\t\t\t\t<path fill=\"#fff\" d=\"M2 0a2 2 0 0 0-2 2v2h1.5V2a.5.5 0 0 1 .5-.5h2V0H2Zm2 10.5H2a.5.5 0 0 1-.5-.5V8H0v2a2 2 0 0 0 2 2h2v-1.5ZM8 12v-1.5h2a.5.5 0 0 0 .5-.5V8H12v2a2 2 0 0 1-2 2H8Zm2-12a2 2 0 0 1 2 2v2h-1.5V2a.5.5 0 0 0-.5-.5H8V0h2Z\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t<\/button><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Igor Chelkovski, <em>Pink panel<\/em>, 2014, Acrylic on wood. \u00a9 Alina Pinsky Gallery.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The breath of constructivism<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <strong><em>Milk Brick<\/em> <\/strong>(1970, Centre Pompidou) to the <strong><em>Clouds <\/em><\/strong>and<strong><em> Reliefs<\/em><\/strong> series of the early 1980s, <strong>Igor Chelkovski<\/strong>&#8216;s formal language blends geometry, tension, and softness. The memory of <strong>Russian Constructivism<\/strong> runs through each piece. Yet, it merges with a search for an almost Zen-like spirituality. Materials, like wood, steel and color, become a minimal vocabulary, always infused with poetic density. In his large metal sculptures from the 2000s or in his recent <strong><em>Figures<\/em><\/strong> or <strong><em>Bouquets<\/em><\/strong>, space breathes. The forms seem to be suspended, quite literally drawn in the air.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Paris exhibition focuses precisely on this idea of a drawing freed from its medium, of lines becoming volume. Presented alongside preparatory sketches and previously unseen maquettes, the artist&#8217;s earlier sculptures open a dialogue with more recent works. Together, they operate a rare continuity, that of an artist who, at 88, has never ceased working \u201c<em>out of necessity, not ambition<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<figure data-wp-context=\"{&quot;imageId&quot;:&quot;6a20dff6cfb9a&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" data-wp-key=\"6a20dff6cfb9a\" class=\"wp-block-image size-large wp-lightbox-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--pointerdown=\"actions.preloadImage\" data-wp-on--pointerenter=\"actions.preloadImageWithDelay\" data-wp-on--pointerleave=\"actions.cancelPreload\" data-wp-on-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" src=\"https:\/\/numero.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/0S0A8114-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"View of the exhibition Dessins dans l&#x2019;air &#x2013; &#x152;uvres 1976-2024 by Igor Chelkovski Alina Pinsky gallery.\" class=\"wp-image-800491\"\/><button\n\t\t\tclass=\"lightbox-trigger\"\n\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\taria-haspopup=\"dialog\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--aria-label=\"state.thisImage.triggerButtonAriaLabel\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-init=\"callbacks.initTriggerButton\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-style--right=\"state.thisImage.buttonRight\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-style--top=\"state.thisImage.buttonTop\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\" fill=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 12 12\">\n\t\t\t\t<path fill=\"#fff\" d=\"M2 0a2 2 0 0 0-2 2v2h1.5V2a.5.5 0 0 1 .5-.5h2V0H2Zm2 10.5H2a.5.5 0 0 1-.5-.5V8H0v2a2 2 0 0 0 2 2h2v-1.5ZM8 12v-1.5h2a.5.5 0 0 0 .5-.5V8H12v2a2 2 0 0 1-2 2H8Zm2-12a2 2 0 0 1 2 2v2h-1.5V2a.5.5 0 0 0-.5-.5H8V0h2Z\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t<\/button><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">View of the exhibition <em>\u201cDessins dans l\u2019air \u2013 \u0152uvres 1976-2024<\/em>\u201d dedicated to Igor Chelkovski at Alina Pinsky gallery. \u00a9 Alina Pinsky gallery.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A-Ya, Igor Chelkovski\u2019s other project<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aside from his artistic practice, <strong>Chelkovski<\/strong> founded the magazine <strong><em>A-Ya<\/em><\/strong> in 1979, as a true act of intellectual anti-conformism. Its pages give voice for the first time to works by <strong>Erik Bulatov<\/strong>, <strong>Ilya Kabakov<\/strong>, and other figures long rendered invisible by the USSR. For this \u201ccrime,\u201d <strong>Chelkovski<\/strong> lost his Soviet citizenship. Yet, <em>A-Ya<\/em> and his art remained a space of fresh air. A place where ideas can circulate freely and creation know no borders.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <strong>Alina Pinsky gallery<\/strong> finally gives the artist the visibility he deserves. With their deliberately makeshift or modest appearance, his artworks actually reveal pieces at the crossroads between tension and rigor, architecture and sculpture, and which radiate with striking radical power.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Dessins dans l&#8217;air \u2013 OEuvres 1976\u20132024, exhibition open until April 11th, 2026 at <a href=\"https:\/\/alinapinskygallery.com\/main\">Alina Pinsky gallery<\/a>, Paris, 3rd arrondissement.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<figure data-wp-context=\"{&quot;imageId&quot;:&quot;6a20dff6cffb3&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" data-wp-key=\"6a20dff6cffb3\" class=\"wp-block-image size-large wp-lightbox-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--pointerdown=\"actions.preloadImage\" 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