VICTOR BREWERS Bagatelles . 2007 Porcelain

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New Museum, February 15 - May 10, 2014
St. Petersburg, 6th Line of Vasilievsky Island , 29

exhibition of nonconformist art and is based on his own collection , opened in St.Petersburg New Museum . The exhibition is devoted unofficial art of the Soviet period from its inception in the late 1950s to the beginning of perestroika and includes almost all of striking and significant artists of the Soviet underground , the true meaning of art which was already evident in the post-perestroika period . Existed for many years in closed residential spaces not under public screenings , an art today has received a wide audience .

exhibition at the New Museum shows unofficial art as a complex, multifaceted phenomenon with time and ( social ) and timeless vectors. It allows us to speak not only about the different versions of abstract ( metaphysical vector - ieratury , abstract expressionism - L. Kropyvnytskyi , M. Kulakov ), but also about the occurrence of unofficial art , art groups within it - lianozovtsev ( Rabin , Nemukhin , L. Masterkova , etc.), group Sretensky Boulevard ( B. Yankilevsky , O. , Brewers ), the group "Movement » ( L. Nusberga , F. Infante Aran ), the origin and development of the Leningrad nonconformity , the emergence of " gazanevskoy culture » ( Mihnov - Voytenko , Dyshlenko Yu , L. Borisov ). Social art work presented in the exposition of the founding fathers of this trend V. Komar and Alexander Melamid « Judgment of Paris , or the Yalta Conference ," as well as works by other members of the Sots Art - A. Kosolapova and Sokov .

Moscow and St. Petersburg artists are shown as single members of the artistic process , stylistically diverse , deeply personal , internally free from stereotypes and ideological clichés .

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