Tuesday, February 09, 2016
Yuri Kosobukin (Ukraine 1950-2013)
Yuri Kosobukin
(Ukraine 1950-2013)
Yuri Kosobukin was born in 1950 in Russia. He
studied in Kharkiv for civil engineer aerospace and worked in Kiev at the
Antonov Aircraft Design Centre as an engineer.
When he started to draw his first cartoons he
had no artistic training. With his men with big noses, he developed his own
unique and inimitable style. In 1976 his first cartoons were published. Since
then thousands of his cartoons have been published in newspapers and magazines
all over the world.
He won more than 450 prizes in cartoon
contests, including more than 100 first prizes. So also in 2003 in our own
Euro-Kartoenale with the theme 'Freedom'. He had personal exhibitions
throughout the world, including Cuba, France, Germany, Poland, Russia, Turkey
...
Yuri died in January 2013 in Kiev at the age of
63 years.
He was one of the most famous cartoonists of
our time.
You can visit the exhibition in the ECC from 24
January till 3 April 2016, every Sunday from 10 to 12 am and from 2 to 5 pm.
Groups of 10 persons or more are welcome on other days by appointment.
