"George Costakis spent three decades hunting down, and saving, thousands of Russian and Soviet avant-garde works of art-at a time when they were hidden, vilified by the state and at risk of disappearing into history."
"The show will reveal how these artists pushed at the boundaries between art and life: how, for example, Gustav Klucis and Liubov Popova began to imagine the machines and textiles of the Soviet future."
"Today most of these artists are well known in the West, but they may not have been were it not for Costakis, who first saw Olga Rozanova's Green Stripe and immediately realised that this was something different, something valuable, something new."
George Costakis, a prominent collector of Russian avant-garde art, dedicated three decades to preserving thousands of works that were at risk of disappearing. After leaving the Soviet Union in 1977, he donated part of his collection to the Tretyakov Gallery and took the rest to Greece. A new exhibition at the National Gallery in Athens reinterprets these works, focusing on the relationship between humans and the environment. The exhibition showcases artists who explored the boundaries of art and life during the creative upheaval following the Russian Revolution.
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