Sentences with phrase «soviet artist on view»

Sculptures by a well - regarded Soviet artist on view in central Moscow were publicly destroyed by Orthodox activists, who called them «blasphemous.»

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Four exhibitions in a year is rare exposure for an artist in New York City, yet Yevgeniy Fiks (b. 1972 Moscow) has accomplished just that: The Lenin Museum, a solo exhibition exposing the duplicity of expediency and erasure in the instrumentalization of gay culture in Soviet Russia, currently on view at the James Gallery at the CUNY Graduate Center, and three collaborative projects, which confront issues of representation within historical practices of commemoration and identity formation within the public sphere.

Curated by Sarah J. Montross, Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Curatorial Fellow at the BCMA, and on view at Bowdoin from March 5 — June 7, 2015, Past Futures broadens the conversation beyond avant - garde art of postwar Europe, the Soviet Union, and the United States by shining new light on artworks created by Latin American artists at this time, and examining the complex relationships between the American continents during this transformative era.

From an art historical point of view, this noteworthy find, in which the artist has acted on the playful aesthetic potential in iconic Soviet images, confirms once more the conceptual links between Rajangu's early work and Sots Art, which mixed the approaches of socialist realism and pop art and, according to Boris Groys, sought to analyse the all - encompassing aesthetico - political Soviet project.