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	Zurab Tsereteli - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tsereteli's 94-meter-tall statue of Peter the Great on the Moskva Riverbank is one of the tallest in the world.
		Tsereteli is actively involved in public activity as a member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation and UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador.
		Zurab Tsereteli has made a big impact on the new image of Moscow after the collapse of the Soviet Union (1991-2006) and expressed a dynamic spirit of the renovation of the city in his own way.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zurab_Tsereteli (1022 words)

	Krugozor Travel Bureau \| Moscow \| Museums \| Zurab Tseretelli Art Gallery
		Zurab Tsereteli actively works as a designer and is in the very center of the current rebuilding of Moscow.
		Zurab Tsereteli, through the academic system of artistic education, including primary artistic school, lyceum courses and higher institutions, which he heads, tries to improve the training of students, to encourage young artists’ endeavors both creative and in the area of technological experiments.
		Tsereteli has initiated the restoration of this former mansion which was in an extremely poor condition and successfully executed the task.
	www.mira16.com /eng/1/1130405371/1136902098.php (1520 words)

	Moscow Sculptor's Gallery Plans Fall on Stony Ground / All culture news of St. Petersburg / Petersburg CITY / Guide to ...
		Tsereteli's vision of the museum is that it should represent the last century of Russian art, from the avant-garde to the present day.
		The three Tsereteli museums in Moscow have been criticized for chaotic representation of art and the lack of a consistent concept, she added.
		Local artist and designer Nika Dranitsyna, said Tsereteli's initiative is set to be but one of several modern art museums, which, she believes will flourish in St. Petersburg in the future.
	www.petersburgcity.com /news/culture/2004/08/10/zurab_tsereteli (696 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Controversial From Moscow to Hudson
		A June 10 article incorrectly said that statues by Russian artist Zurab Tsereteli are located on the interior of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow.
		Tsereteli said he came up with the idea of his crying sculpture when he saw people crying in the streets of Moscow after the World Trade Center towers collapsed.
		Sarkisian said he considered Tsereteli the man who has "personally done the biggest damage to the city" with his sculptures, but he added, "He is an artist in his way, always close to the power and always very successful.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A29661-2004Jun9?language=printer (1360 words)

	Zurab Tsereteli can be rightfully considered the most fruitful artist of the end of the 20th - beginning of the 21st ...
		Tsereteli has already advanced an initiative to create a monument to the Beslan terrorist act victims and is currently working on the monument to the victims of the tsunami in Thailand.
		At the moment Zurab Tsereteli is negotiating with UNESCO director Koichiro Matsuura on the site of the 7-meter monument dedicated to the anti-AIDS fight, a bronze spiral with naked figures of a man and a woman.
		In spite of the great number of the projects, Zurab Tsereteli believes that this is not an active year for him because none of the monuments will be unveiled in Moscow.
	www.russiannewsroom.com /content.aspx?id=2864_Art&date=2005-2-4 (378 words)

	Controversial From Moscow to Hudson (washingtonpost.com)
		Tsereteli's detractors here have mostly been relieved that his latest project is New Jersey's problem -- and not Moscow's -- though they are divided on whether to sympathize with the Americans.
		Tsereteli supervised teams that worked on the exterior statues and played a major role in the project to replicate the original paintings in the interior.
		Tsereteli received a number of high state awards recognizing his work in the Soviet years.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A29661-2004Jun9.html (853 words)

	RUSSIA PROFILE.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Yet Tsereteli – often dubbed the court sculptor of Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov – has a second, much less-known string to his bow, as he is also the president of the Russian Academy of Arts, a prestigious institution founded in 1757 that has traditionally represented the pinnacle of Russian art.
		Tsereteli became president of the academy in 1997, since when he has stirred up the tradition-bound institution by welcoming a variety of new members, opening two new museums of contemporary art, and promoting a steady stream of books and exhibitions.
		In addition, Tsereteli has helped restore many of the academy’s buildings, acquired several new ones that are used as exhibition space, and published art books at the rate of 20 to 30 per year.
	www.russiaprofile.org /culture/article.wbp?article-id=5E85FC56-ED05-4A44-ACBF-6E1ECD3E5D15&content_type=print (1255 words)

	Tear of Grief - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tear of Grief is a 10-story high sculpture by Zurab Tsereteli that was given as an official gift of the Russian government and placed on the Bayonne waterfront as a memorial to those that died in the September 11th terrorist attacks.
		The sculpture is in the form of a 10-story high tower of bronze split with a jagged opening through the middle.
		Tsereteli has not disclosed the cost of the sculpture except to say that he was paying for labor and materials.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tear_of_Grief (232 words)

	CONTEXT - This Week in Arts and Ideas from The Moscow Times
		Tsereteli, who celebrated his 70th birthday this year, lives and works in the former West German Embassy and creates vast sculptures for Moscow and other cities, the most conspicuous of which is the 94-meter-high monument to Peter the Great that towers over the Moscow River.
		Vladimir Filonov / MT Artist Zurab Tsereteli is currently planning a hydraulic memorial to the victims of Sept. 11, 2001, to be erected in Jersey City.
		Tsereteli is a proponent of modern art, having visited the Paris studios of Pablo Picasso and Marc Chagall and collected works for the Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art.
	context.themoscowtimes.com /stories/2004/02/27/101.html (1633 words)

	Zurab Tsereteli
		Zurab Tsereteli (born January 4, 1934 in Georgia) is a Georgian painter, sculptor and architect who graduated from the Academy of Arts in Tbilisi.
		Tsereteli was appointed professor in the Russian Academy of Arts and president of the Foundation for the Children's Park of Miracles in Moscow, Russia in 1988.
		He was elected vice-president of the Russian Academy of Creative Endeavors and the president of the International Center of Design in 1993, as well as president of the International Academy of Information Science in 1994.
	en.mcfly.org /Zurab_Tsereteli (105 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Statue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Zurab Tsereteli's statue of Peter the Great in downtown Moscow is one of the world's tallest, alongside Ushiku Amida Buddha in Japan and the Rodina Mat on the Mamayev Kurgan.
		A statue is a sculpture depicting a specific entity, usually a person, event, animal or object.
		Many statues are built on commission to commemorate a historical event, such as the Battle of Iwo Jima, or the life of an influential person, such as Mahatma Gandhi.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Statue (1135 words)

	Georgia Today on the Web
		Zurab Tsereteli, a famous Georgian painter, sculptor and architect based in Russia, is the author of the Saint George statue.
		Tsereteli is the President of the Moscow International Foundation for Support to UNESCO, Russian Academy of Arts, the UNESCO International Chair of Fine Arts and International Centre of Design.
		Tsereteli is considered among the foremost contemporary artists.
	www.georgiatoday.ge /article_details.php?id=1172 (1215 words)

	The St. Petersburg Times - News - Tsereteli Designs Tsunami Monument
		Controversial sculptor Zurab Tsereteli is working on a monument to victims of the Dec. 26 tsunami in Southeast Asia on that killed about 300,000 people.
		Tsereteli, well known for his taste for gigantism, has also unveiled plans for a bronze and granite monument to the victims of last September's hostage crisis in Beslan.
		Tsereteli has made several works that have been erected overseas, although it is not clear that his donations are always welcome.
	www.sptimes.ru /index.php?action_id=2&story_id=2902 (370 words)

	A Special Gift (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In 1978, Dr. Albert W. Brown presented Soviet artist Zurab Tsereteli with an honorary certificate in recognition of his efforts to foster peace and understanding between people of the Soviet Union and the United States.
		Within a year, Tsereteli constructed two sculptures for the Soviet Government, which were then donated to SUNY Brockport in honor of the International Year of the Child and the International Special Olympics.
		Tsereteli waived his usual royalties which would have amounted to $250, 000 because the pieces were for children and students.
	www.brockport.edu /~library1/gift.htm (307 words)

	Russian sculptor's 9/11 memorial makes tragedy tacky, critics charge
		Tsereteli's commemoration for the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States -- a 100-foot splintered pylon with a giant teardrop-shaped glob of glass that he says will exude drops like real tears -- will soon be built on the Jersey City waterfront.
		Whether from sour grapes or plain disbelief at Tsereteli's success, some members of the Russian art and architecture world see the planned monument as evidence that the taste of public officials in America can be as questionable as that of Moscow's leaders.
		In that sense, Zurab Tsereteli is a world champion in terms of the number of ugly works he has managed to palm off to different countries.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/10/17/MNGIT2CGEP1.DTL (606 words)

	The St. Petersburg Times - Top Stories - Tsereteli Offers Sculptures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Tsereteli, whose works have mushroomed around the Russian capital, enjoys strong support from the Moscow authorities, including Mayor Yury Luzhkov, who is the sculptor's close friend.
		Tsereteli's statue of Columbus made 12 years ago was rejected by five U.S. states because of its bulk and aesthetics.
		Tsereteli has had his eye on St. Petersburg since 1995, when he proposed erecting a statue of [Second World War hero] Marshal Georgy Zhukov on Marskoye Polye in central St. Petersburg, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the end of the Second World War.
	www.sptimes.ru /index.php?action_id=2&story_id=11556 (835 words)

	The St. Petersburg Times - Top Stories - Stalin Statue 'Due to Go To Yalta' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Tsereteli said he dislikes Stalin, especially since his grandfather was repressed and executed in 1937.
		Tsereteli said he has been working on the monument for the last two years at the request of Ukrainian authorities.
		Tsereteli, who is creating a monument dedicated to the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, said the monument is to be erected in the town of Bayonne, New Jersey, on Sept. 11 this year.
	www.times.spb.ru /index.php?action_id=2&story_id=2719 (463 words)

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		The personal exhibition of artworks of the President of the Russian Academy of Arts Zurab Tsereteli opens in the National Art Museum of Belarus in Minsk.
		Muller in honor of the 150th anniversary of the establishment of “Swisshotel Metropol” hotel, which in the 19th century was the firstheadquarters of the International Red Cross.
		// The opening of the new exposition of artworks by ZURAB TSERETELI, President of the Russian Academy of Art, as well as presentation of his sculptural cycle “Our contemporaries” is due to be held on November 3rd, 2004 at 6 PM in the “Art Gallery”, museum and exhibition complex of the Russian Academy of Art.
	www.tsereteli.ru /eng/news.php (675 words)

	Wired New York Forum - Jersey City 9/11 Memorial
		The Russian artist Zurab Tsereteli, who has built large-scale sculptures in several cities around the world, including one outside the United Nations complex in New York, is planning to build a 100-foot-tall, 176-ton bronze obelisk on the Jersey City waterfront, somewhere between the northern edge of Liberty State Park and Exchange Place.
		Tsereteli, whose idea of a modest enterprise is filling a park in St. Petersburg with 74 life-sized busts of czarist royalty.
		Emily Madoff, an attorney for Tsereteli, declined to comment on the fate of the sculpture, which reportedly had been completed in Russia and was awaiting shipment to the U.S., saying she had been instructed by her client not to discuss the matter with the press.
	www.wirednewyork.com /forum/printthread.php?t=4349&pp=50 (6978 words)

	Russian culture navigator
		The president of the Academy of Arts 70-yers-old Zurab Tsereteli was awarded the prize under the nomination of "Super-Star" and is very famous in the country as the creator of flickering decorative mosaic panels, light emitting colorful stained-glass windows and grand compositions from molded and enchased metal.
		Zurab Tsereteli's more than 40-year career has been successful and marked with the expansion of his creative areas.
		Zurab Tsereteli was the First Russian citizen to put forward the initiative to immortalize the victims of the terrorist attacks in the United States on the 11th of September 2001.
	www.vor.ru /culture/cultarch274_eng.html (3587 words)

	Russia Blog: Russia Donates 9/11 Memorial to New Jersey
		Internationally renowed Russo-Georgian artist Zurab Tsereteli will be in Bayonne, New Jersey on September 11, 2006 for a public ceremony dedicating a monument "To the Struggle Against World Terrorism".
		On fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, Russian artist Zurab Tsereteli will dedicate his 175-ton work, which sits on a former military base, past the entrance to a cruise terminal, at the tip of a peninsula.
		Tsereteli returned to Bayonne this month to put the finishing touches on his sculpture.
	www.russiablog.org /2006/07/russia_donates_911_memorial_to.html (1285 words)

	UNESCO - Zurab Tsereteli
		Tsereteli donó a la UNESCO una de sus esculturas, que forma parte de la colección de obras de arte de la Organización.
		Ara Abramian and Zurab Tsereteli participate in the celebrations of the 60th Anniversary of the End of World War II
		Mr Zurab Tsereteli, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, Mr Koïchiro Matsuura, UNESCO Director-General, and Mrs Nathéla Laguidze, Deputy Permanent Delegate of Georgia to UNESCO, at UNESCO Headquarters
	portal.unesco.org /es/ev.php-URL_ID=8331&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html (427 words)

	BBC News \| ARTS \| Russian sculpts Diana bronze
		The two-metre high piece is a tame creation for Zurab Tsereteli compared to his previous works which have included a 660-tonne statue of Christopher Columbus.
		Tsereteli, president of the Russian Academy of Art, was not commissioned to make the bronze, instead choosing to sculpt it to coincide with what would have been the princess's 40th birthday.
		Tsereteli's Columbus statue made 10 years ago has been rejected by five US states because of the size and nature of it.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/arts/1424136.stm (280 words)

	The Hudson Reporter - Giant teardrop to commemorate 9/11 After controversy, location will be determined later (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Tsereteli is President of the Russian Academy of Arts and a UNESCO Ambassador of goodwill.
		Tsereteli has a foundation dedicated to raising money for his work from corporate sponsors and other donors.
		Kevin Eitel of Turner Construction in New York assured the council that Tsereteli has a crew of engineers who will ensure the structure is sound, allaying fears raised about a German-made crane that collapsed in the wind two years ago while it was doing construction work in Newport.
	www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=10658725&BRD=1291&PAG=461&dept_id=523586&rfi=6 (821 words)

	RussianDC.com - Russian Portal for Greater Washington / Baltimore Area. Russian DC: News in english
		The memorial committee of Bayonne, New Jersey, has unanimously approved a project by the Russian sculptor Zurab Tsereteli to commemorate the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks and the Feb. 26, 1993 attack on the World Trade Center.
		Tsereteli plans to erect the 100-foot high monument on the city's waterfront, at the former Military Ocean Terminal, now known as the Peninsula at Bayonne Harbor, the Nj.Com website reported.
		Tsereteli who is also president of the Russian Academy of Arts said “the monument's form and clear outlines symbolize calm and peace”.
	www.russiandc.com /news.html?id=1057 (478 words)

	ARTINFO :: News
		Zurab Tsereteli with his monument, "To the Struggle Against World Terrorism," under construction at Bayonne Harbor, NJ.
		Tsereteli, an enormously experienced and prolific artist, is a true celebrity in Russia, and his work, particularly his public sculptures, are sited prominently all over the world.
		While everyone is still arguing with everyone else down at the World Trade Center site, Zurab Tsereteli has spent $12 million of his own money, and teams of Russian and American workmen are preparing the final surface finish of his monument—and already installing a test version of its final lighting system.
	www.artinfo.com /News/Article.aspx?a=19195 (416 words)

	Zurab Welcome To The Unified Messaging Center Of. Zurab Dajania ( Hello My Name Is Zurab Dajania.
		Zurab Mentesashvili is one of many Georgians playing for Skonto Riga in the Latvian League.
		Zurab Tsereteli is considered among the foremost contemporary.
		Born on January 4, 1934, in the Republic of Georgia in the former art form, was refined in Zurab Tsereteli's homeland, the Republic of Georgia.
	www.99hosted.com /new-name59882.html (499 words)

	artnet.com Magazine News
		Russian sculptor Zurab Tsereteli wants to site a 10-story-tall, 175-ton teardrop suspended in a bronze-clad tower on a pier in the Hudson, also located in Jersey City.
		Tsereteli made Good Defeats Evil, a sculpture of St. George spearing a fallen dragon made from a missile that is sited on the United Nations grounds in Manhattan.
		Tsereteli would pay for the work himself, though opposition to the scheme seems to be building.
	www.artnet.com /Magazine/news/artnetnews2/artnetnews7-8-04.asp (1071 words)

	Zurab TSERETELI, le peintre, architecte et sculpteur russe très en vogue
		Né en Georgie, le peintre, sculpteur, architecte et décorateur russe Zurab Tsereteli est également président de la "Fondation internationale de Moscou pour appuyer l’UNESCO", de l’"Académie des beaux arts russes", de la "Chair internationale de l’UNESCO pour les beaux arts" et du "Centre international du design".
		Zurab Tsereteli est considéré comme l’un des artistes contemporains les plus importants à l’heure actuelle.
		En 1994 M. Zurab TSERETELI a été élu le Vice-Président de l’Académie de Beaux-Arts de la Fédération de Russie, ainsi que le Président de l’Académie Interantionale de l’Information Scientifique.
	www.russomania.com /imprimer.php3?id_article=1415 (348 words)

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