Garry Faif

Garry Faif was born in Tbilisi on June 12, 1942, grew up in Tiraspol and graduated from the Moscow Architectural Institute in 1962. At 29 he was co-author, with the sculptor Leonid Fishbein, of the Memorial of Glory on Suvorov Square in Tiraspol (1972).

Deported in 1973, he settled in France, trained again with Ricardo Bofill and Paul Chemetov, and built more than thirty municipal buildings around Paris. He is counted among the founders of Russian kinetic art. He died in Paris on April 12, 2002.