GallerySaatchi,
26 November 2014 - 23 February 2015
Duke of York's HQ, King's Road, London

At London's Saatchi gallery opened the exhibition "Post-pop: East meets West". About 250 pieces 110 artists from China, Taiwan, countries of the former USSR, UK and USA will talk about how the phenomenon of popular art influenced artists all over the world - carriers of different, sometimes opposite ideology@

Pop art, based on the use of recognizable images of mass culture, has become one of the most significant trends in the art of the twentieth century. During that originated in Britain and America in 1950-60-ies, in every part of the world acquired its meaning color. In the West, artists used images from advertising, to criticize the modern consumer society and the cult of celebrity. In Soviet and post-Soviet space artists directions "Sots art" used propaganda posters and slogans, Soviet symbols to refer to the problems of state control, pliancy, formalities, pomposity and visibility of universal unity. In Asia, the artists direction "political pop art" or "cynical realism" through the iconography of Chinese socialist realism thinking about the political system of the PRC and the emergence of the cult of wealth and luxury after a period of austerity. And all these topics are transmitted through humor and popular images of mass culture, friends and family tritely@

Художники:

Великобритания: Glenn brown, Gary Hume, Yinka Shonibare, Rachel Whiteread, Marc Quinn, Michael Craig-Martin and Dr@

США: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Peter Halley, Jeff Koons, Sherrie Levine, Richard Prince, Paul McCarthy, Cindy Sherman and Dr@

Китай: AI Weiwei, Zeng Fanchzhi and Dr@

Former SSSR@ AES f, Blue noses, Grisha Bruskin, Erik Bulatov, Rimma gerlovina and Valeriy Gerlovin, Ilya Kabakov, Komar and Melamid, Alexander Kosolapov, Anatoly Osmolovsky, Irina Korina, Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe, Irina Nakhova, Alexey Kallima and j@

Material compiled by Maria Onuchin, AI