But from the State Tretyakov Gallery.
Stalin and Monroe
1991
Paper glued on canvas, photo paper, acrylic, bronze paint, collage
96,7 x 85,7
Admission 2005: from the museum "Tsarina".
Hammer and Sickle. Kinetic object
1990
Wood, metal, bronze paint, rope, gum, hinges
18,5 x 15 x 6,5
Admission 2005: from the museum "Tsarina".
The meeting of two sculptures (Lenin and Giacometti)
1990
Gypsum
50 x 39,5 x 14,5
Gift of the author in 1993.
Aesthetics creativity of the artist, one of the leading representatives of the Sots Art determine rustic origins, while vocational education sculpture. "Folklore" look and a heightened attention to the shape and material led to the emergence of unique wooden objects, trouble-free effect on the audience because of its rough "fair" nature. Simpler forms, bright colors and, most importantly, mobility, leading its origins in the mobile-traditional toys - these are the external characteristics of objects of the artist. These objects are transferred to the ideological content of Soviet political fetishes, depriving the latter of vital force, forced literally disintegrating before our eyes, turn to the attributes of a harmless buffoonery. Symbols of the communist utopia, claimed the completion of history and the overcoming of time, are organically inscribed in the tradition of grassroots carnival culture, and their deliberate comic "Interactivity" helps the viewer to undergo a course of psychological rehabilitation.
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