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The publisher of " New Literary Review " published a book Lely Kantor - Kazovsky dedicated creativity Mikhail Grobman ( 1939), Israeli artist and poet , one of the representatives of the Moscow avant-garde artistic and poetic 1960 - ies .

Grobman emigrated to Israel in 1971, before the Soviet ideological production has been subject to artistic interpretation . He initially did not go on this way - his dialogue with the new environment , working with artists and some discrepancies with other projects and exhibitions were not connected with the Soviet civilization , and with the prospects of contemporary art .

History Grobman proves that the so-called "Iron Curtain" was not a curtain , and a kind of " conducting membrane ," which helped , but did not prevent the transfer of meanings and the creation of new approaches .

In monographs detail the 1970s , when Mikhail Grobman occupied a special position between the Western and Russian conceptualism , as well as a period of adjustment to the present, in which the artist was able to find their own special language of political art .

The book includes texts and film artist , and a catalog of the works included in the project" Grobman . 4 show ».

exhibition will be held from December 11 2013 to January 26, 2014 and will consist of four separate exposures , each of which takes one floor MMOMA on Ermolaevsky Lane , 17.

The exhibition will be organized a series of lectures and evenings Mikhail Grobman and curator Lelia Kantor - Kazovsky , films about Grobman and second Russian avant-garde at the Jewish Museum and the center of tolerance and MMOMA . The exhibition is held in celebration of the 65th anniversary of Israel's independence .

About the artist :

Mikhail Grobman (1939 , Moscow) - painter and poet . Member of the second Russian avant-garde. Founder of the "Leviathan" and publisher of the newspaper of the same name . Since 1993, together with Irina Vrubel - Golubkina publishes "The Mirror" . Author of " Military Notebook" ( Tel Aviv, 1992), "Leviathan" (UFO , Moscow, 2002 ), "In black , black country" ( Carmel , 2005), "The Last Sky" (UFO , Moscow, 2006 ) , "Leviathan" ( Carmel , 2009 ).

Solo Exhibitions: Tel Aviv Museum of Art (1971) Art Museum Bochum (Germany, 1988) , State Russian Museum (St. Petersburg, 1999) and others lived in Moscow , in Israel since 1971, lives in Tel Aviv .

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