Francisco Infante

Francisco Infante was born in 1943 in Vasilevka, a suburb of Moscow. He enrolled in the Surikov Art Institute at the age of fourteen. From 1962 until 1966 he then studied at the Moscow Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts before becoming a member of Lev Nusberg's "Movement Group" (Dvizheniye). Though his art has always been a renowned and firm part of the cultural establishment, his Artifacts were often shown in the circles of scientists and engineers such as the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy in Moscow in 1966. Starting as a kinetic artist Francisco Infante is mostly known for his contribution to the Land Art movement. His Artifacts, installations in the natural environment, express his primary intention of creating artificial systems analogues to natural phenomena.