Francisco infante arana biography of michael

Infante-Arana is the son of a Spanish Republican émigré and a Russian mother. He has lived in Moscow since 1946. He studied at the Moscow Middle Art School for especially gifted children during 1956-1962, and then spent the next four years in the department of monumental painting at the Stroganov Moscow Higher Industrial Art School.

He is one of the founders of kinetic art in Moscow.

Francisco infante arana biography of michael

Between 1962 and 1968 he was an active member of a group of artists who called themselves the Movement (Dvizhenie) Group in 1964. Under that name, the Russian kinetic artists held numerous shows, which exhibited Infante’s geometric abstract panels and objects.

He left the group in 1968 and has since been working together with his wife, Nonna Goriunova. They announced the creation of the group ARGO (combining Arana and Goriunova) in 1970. They created in large form 8 of the 11 kinetic objects they had planned for urban environments (primarily on the territory of closed military i