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St. Petersburg: KGallery, 2015. pb. These works from a gallery exhibition in St. Petersburg show Gavril'chik's remarkable versatility. His paintings draw on many forms of art always aptly and with originality: icon-painting, realism, naive and grotesque art. He satirizes Soviet society in a Horatian tone pointedly but without bitterness. His..... More
St. Petersburg: KGallery, 2014. pb. The introduction to this catalogue of a gallery exhibition shows how Shvarts learned resourcefully from taboo art in the West to develop into an original artist of the late Soviet period. In his student years right after World War II, Shvarts became friends with Aleksandr Aref'ev. After..... More
St. Petersburg: KGallery, 2015. pb. Vasmi's paintings of the last four decades of the Soviet period as published in this gallery exhibition catalogue show a strain of art that was far from the sanctioned Socialist Realist style. He learned from the experiments of the early twentieth-century avant-garde but his cityscapes..... More
St. Petersburg: Galereia Borei / Borey Art Gallery, 2013. pb. Published in this gallery exhibition catalogue are drawings and lithographs of the 1980s that illustrate a direction of Soviet art that tuned out the political world. In a childlike and naive style, using blasts of color like pyrotechnics, the artist draws city..... More
St. Petersburg: Erarta, 2010. pb. Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art in St. Petersburg publishes here a survey of contemporary painting by including works by over one hundred Russian artists working in the last years of the twentieth and first years of the twenty-first centuries. Representative examples of the artists' works..... More
St. Petersburg: Novyi muzei, 2010. sewn pb. The post-Soviet period has seen a new phenomenon in Russian art: founding museums based on private collections. For seventy years in the communist regime building individual wealth was taboo, and art collecting impracticable. In the 1990s and 2000s getting resources sufficient to collect..... More
Moscow: Garazh, 2010. pb. The authors and curators of this Garage Museum of Contemporary Art exhibition catalogue comment in detail on the works of fifteen contemporary artists. In two substantive articles they trace in the work of contemporary art living strands of the avant-garde experiments of the early twentieth century..... More
Moscow: Garazh, 2011. Pb. Selecting these photographs from the Arpad A. Busson Foundation for exhibition at the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, the curators use photography not only to illustrate historical events that took place in the 1950s, but also to show how works of photographic art shape our perception of history. The..... More
Moscow / London: Garazh / Hayward Gallery, 2010. sewn pb. Galleries and museums in Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Austria, England, the United States, China, and Japan provided works for this exhibition at the the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art. Originating in the Hayward Gallery in London, the exhibition moved to..... More
St. Petersburg: Erarta, 2010. pb. Blocks of color, hints at architectural or human forms, and rich deep colors characterize the paintings in this catalogue of an exhibition at Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Most works date to the first decade of the twenty-first century. 32 p, approx. 30 color illus...... More
St. Petersburg: KGallery, n.d. Sewn cl. The drawings, paintings, collages, and porcelain published in this catalogue of a gallery exhibition show an extremely versatile artist who has changed his subjects and evolved his style to express the themes that most interest him from an ironic image of Soviet newspapers bedraggled..... More
St. Petersburg: Novyi muzei, 2015. pb. This catalogue of an exhibition of paintings by the late Russian artist opened in December 2015 at St. Petersburg's private museum specializing in late Soviet and contemporary art New Museum (Novyi muzei). It gives a broad sampling of works by an artist whose style sometimes..... More
St. Petersburg: KGallery, 2012. Pb. During the 1970s and 80s Rastorguev worked out a style apparently very simple - he shunned perspective and placed in awkward positions, evidently stylizing his work after Russian popular prints (lubki). But by the culmination of his career in an exhibition devoted to his work..... More
St. Petersburg: KGallery, 2012. The artists published in this substantive catalogue of a gallery exhibition formed a loose association based on their interest in using a traditional representative style rather than an abstract or symbolic one to depict their subjects. At the same time, they sought new ways to interpret old subjects. Most..... More
St. Petersburg: KGallery / Artindeks, 2007. Sewn pb. The earliest works published in this gallery exhibiion catalogue date to the 1950s; the latest to the 1990s. Influenced in part by his meeting with Pavel Kondrat'ev in 1967, Zhukov began to innovate with graphic techniques and with early twentieth-century styles of..... More
St. Petersburg: Erarta, 2010. pb. In this catalogue of an exhibition at the Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art we see a painter who in his work of the 1970s to early 2000s renounces literal imagery and searches for new ways of composing colors and shapes. Zubkov's art thus stems from..... More
St. Petersburg: Erarta, 2010. pb. These paintings and drawings done from the 1960s through the 1980s show a vital strain of Soviet art: representative yet not realistic, unconventional in subtle ways such as tone, color, and composition. When Gorban' chose typical themes of the period - workers, factories, demonstrations -..... More
St. Petersburg: Erarta, 2011. pb. This catalogue of an exhibition at Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art publishes a sampling of works by a contemporary painter who in his landscape paintings uses dark tones and blurred lines to suggest a mood. In such paintings as "Low Sun," "Dry Grass," and "Long..... More
St. Petersburg: Avangard na Neve / Novyi muzei, 2015. Sewn cl. This catalogue is based on an exhibition at Novyi muzei (New Museum), St. Petersburg, and recreates momentous events in the history of unofficial art in the USSR — the exhibitions of 1974 and 75 at the Gaz House of Culture and..... More
St. Petersburg: Erarta, 2009. pb. This is the first catalogue published by Erarta Museum of Conemporary Art in St. Petersburg. The varied styles and subjects suggest that Russian late Soviet and contemporary art is a fluid body of work open to many interpretations. 222 p., 100 color illus., Rus. Sewn..... More
St. Petersburg: Erarta, 2010. pb. These paintings usually on episodes from ancient mythology show that a contemporary artist may use a traditional medium - oil on canvas - to suggest the subject in a new way rather than represent or depict the subject. 24 p., 14 color illus., Rus. and..... More
Moscow: Garazh / Pinakoteka, 2010. Sewn pb. The Garage Museum of Contemporary Art uses its exhibition as a springboard to examine key themes of twentieth-century art. Part 1 is called "On the ruin of great utopias"; part 2 , "The future is here." The authors and works of art touch..... More
St. Petersburg: Galereia Borei / Borey Art Gallery, 2016. pb. These sculptures, paintings, and collages by a contemporary St. Petersburg artist published in this gallery exhibition catalogue show an imaginative ability to bring together ordinary objects to create compositions that are pleasant to behold and open to varying interpretations. 59..... More