Zurab Tsereteli, the polarized Russian sculptor of huge works, dies in 91

She died on Tuesday at his home outside Moscow. It was 91.

He announced his death by Sergei Shajlassalili, his assistant. President Vladimir sent F. Putin, from Russia, is a memorandum of condolences to the family of Mr. Tastlli, describing him as “a prominent representative of the Russian multinational culture.”

Mr. Tsierteli, one of the fans of Mr. Putin, revealed a highly bronze statue in 2004, wearing a raised Judo jacket. (The work was received very badly, however, he remained with Mr. Tsriti in his exhibition.)

The work of Mr. Tzrieli is largely determined after the Russian aesthetics after the Soviet Union. He was able to magic his way across the geopolitical border in obtaining the position of unofficial court in the Kremlin in the 1990s while he was also working with his country’s country of Georgia as he was trying to distance from Moscow.

In Georgia, where many local population condemned to stay in Russia, it built the freedom in Tbilisi, the capital, which replaced the statue of Vladimir Lenin in the main square after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

In Russia, Mr. Tzrieli has led teams that created some of the largest monuments after the country’s Union in the country, indicating a departure from the geometric style of communism in favor of colored capitalist tools-to anger a large part of Moscow’s listeners.

In the 1990s, he helped present the new face of Moscow by designing the first underground shopping center in the country, in the Manig Square, next to the Kremlin. Some said that the commercial center, which is decorated with special statues, has destroyed the square forever.

It was later assigned to create, as an official gift from Russia to the United States, a memorial for the victims of terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Rejection. A community of local arts described the work as “a non -self -nutritional piece.” He was finally It was installed in Bayonne, New JerseyIn 2006.

The massive bronze for Mr. Tsrieli The Kristen Columbus statue in Puerto Rico He also drew criticism, whether for its aesthetics or its historical context. It is located off the foggy track along the northern coast and 350 feet high – the longest statue in the Western hemisphere – the souvenir is characterized by the tall Columbus that stands on the deck of the smaller sailing, hand on the wheel of the ship and the other raised to the sky, with three sails of the ship behind it.

Some called him Eyesore when it was completed in 2016. Many Puerto Rico intended to exist, citing violence against the indigenous population during the Columbus period in the Caribbean.

Mr. Tzrieli originally wanted to give the United States memorial in 1992 to celebrate the 500th anniversary of Columbus’s arrival in the Americas. But every American city approached, including New York, Boston, Miami and Columbus, Ohio, rejected it.

The great statues of Mr. Tzrieli were statues elsewhere around the world, including At the United Nations In New York and in Londonand Rome and Tokyo. In this process, he designed personal contacts abroad. He was familiar with President Trump, with whom he participated in love with a pifesty and greatness. He speaks to New Yorker in 1997, Mr. Trump The name Mr. Tsretlli, “The Pioneer and the Legitimacy”.

Mr. Tzrieli’s fame reached its climax in 1997, when he installed a 321 -foot staggering statue, glorifying Peter the Great in the center of Moscow, it was known that Peter was a city that he did not like. Like a Columbus monument, the piece is placed in the imperialist Peter in a small sailing ship that is not commensurate with its mast and sails behind it.

The audience revolted. People signed the petitions, accusing Mr. Tsriti from taste. The city was dressed with crying stickers, “bottom with Caesar!” The margin left group said it has plans to detonate the memorial.

But after the death of Mr. Tzrieli, even the arbitrators of the taste of mercy, who made the familiar to re -work, he began to sing his praise. Some praised him as a shrewd official, a motive and helped many artists in trouble, financially or otherwise. Others said that although his tremendous statues were arrogant, his paintings and drawings showed a more elegant and tender aspect than his talent.

“He was a truly talented artist,” Gregory Refizin, a Russian critic, wrote in Obedient In Kommersant, a Russian company daily. “He had a huge feeling in color, and he was primarily a painter.”

“Although his sculptures” hateful and tasteless “, he was still an important figure in the Russian art whose legacy would continue.

“Today we understand that this was not the worst thing that could happen to us,” wrote Mr. Gilman, a previously spinning doctor in the Kremlin who has become an audio critic and left Russia publication On Facebook.

In 1999, Mr. Tzrieli founded the Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art, a vibrant institution – led by his grandson Vasily Tzrili – which includes a group of major Russian works. The museum has highlighted the new Russian artists as well as the exhibitions retroactively honoring the prominent artists whose works were banned during the Soviet period.

Mr. Tsretley established a museum of modern art in Tbilisi. On Thursday and Friday, hundreds of people went there to pay their last respect. Buried In the capital on Saturday, in Didube Pantheon, along with his wife, INESSA Andronikashvili, and many Georgian cultural figures.

In Moscow, a farewell party was held on Wednesday in Christ our Savior, the main Orthodox Cathedral in the country. Mr. Tzrieli helped decorate him in the nineties.

Ziorab Constantinovich Tsrieli was born on January 4, 1934, in Tbilisi, when Georgia was part of the Soviet Union. He graduated from the Tbilisi Academy of Arts in 1958 and in 1960 work began as an artist employee at the Georgian Academy of Sciences, and participated in many research campaigns.

In 1964, he went to Paris, where Mark Chagal and Pablo Picasso met and discovered that the artist could not only make paintings, but also statues, ceramic works and ceramics. Upon his return to the Soviet Union, the resorts began decorating on the Black Sea with mosaic fountains, bus stations and stadiums that helped give the area its wonderful flavor.

During most of his career, Mr. Tzrieli flourished on the official committees of the Soviet and Russian political elite. In the 1970s and eighties of the last century, he made a design for Soviet embassies and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Summer Gorbachev on the Black Sea. The chief artists of the Summer Olympiad 1980 were appointed in Moscow.

In the nineties of the last century, when Mayor Yuri Luzkov was increasing to Moscow, Mr. Tzrieli worked on multiple projects in the city, including Al -Nasr giant Park, which is one of the first nation building projects in modern Russia. He was elected President of the Russian Academy of Arts in 1997.

He survived his daughter, Yelena. Three grandchildren and many grandchildren.