Anna Aleksandrovna Tarshis, better known as Ry Nikonova or Rea Nikonova, was a Russian artist, poet, and writer.
13 Facts About Ry Nikonova
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Ry Nikonova was an editor of samizdat magazines Transponans and Double.
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Ry Nikonova founded "Uktuss School" art movement in Yekaterinburg, Russia.
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Ry Nikonova was born Anna Aleksandrovna Tarshis on 25 June 1942 in Yeysk, which was occupied by Nazi Germany at the time.
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Ry Nikonova was born into a very artistic family who saw playing piano, singing, and composing music as normal after-work entertainment.
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Ry Nikonova graduated from the Sverdlovsk Music College in 1961, then entered the Leningrad State Institute of Theatre, Music, and Cinema in 1965.
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Ry Nikonova was expelled in 1967, because her paintings were non-conformant to the communist standards of that day.
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Ry Nikonova founded the "Uktuss School" art movement in Sverdlovsk.
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Ry Nikonova became a key thinker in experimental, avant-garde literature - in 1976 she started creating artist books, in 1978 - first vector poems.
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Ry Nikonova emigrated to Germany together with her husband in 1998.
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Ry Nikonova participated in Mail art projects, created visual poetry, sound poetry and a few paintings.
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On 10 March 2014, at the age of 71, Ry Nikonova died in the German city of Kiel.
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Ry Nikonova was buried in the Scottish village of Leslie.