This Leads to Fire
dal 13/9/2014 al 10/1/2015
Segnalato da
13/9/2014
This Leads to Fire
Neuberger Museum of Art Purchase College, SUNY, New York
From Nonconformism to Global Capitalism, Selections from the Kolodzei Art Foundation Collection. The exhibition includes 100 works ranging from the 1950s through the period of Glasnost and contemporary art.
The exhibition is curated by Sarah Warren, Assistant Professor of Art History at Purchase College, the State University of New York and coordinated for the Neuberger Museum of Art by Patrice Giasson.
This Leads to Fire features selections from the Kolodzei Art Foundation, one of the most extensive collections of nonconformist and contemporary Russian art in the world.
The exhibition will include 100 works ranging from the 1950s through the period of Glasnost and contemporary art. It will be organized into five parts that explore the origins of Nonconformist art, the developments of Moscow Conceptualism, Sots Art, the influence of the Russian avant-garde in geometric abstraction, and the coercive legacy of Socialist Realism.
This Leads to Fire will familiarize viewers with an important and underappreciated body of work, but also demonstrate the challenges these artists still pose to both mainstream Russian culture and the globalized art world.
"In the Soviet period, it was the pluralism of the international art world that sustained and inspired these artists, as well as their collective relationships of mutual support, both material and creative," says guest curator Sarah Warren, Assistant Professor of Art History at Purchase College, SUNY. "Today's artists are still burdened by the legacy of Soviet Realism and face an increasingly repressive environment." She adds that though many of the artists have exhibited extensively in the West, this exhibition will reveal the deeper context of the Kolodzeis' collecting practices and considers the challenges the artists still face. Generous support for This Leads to Fire has been provided by the Friends of the Neuberger Museum of Art and the Purchase College Foundation.
Image: Anton S. Kandinsky, Post-Soviet-Ism, 2012, Oil on canvas, 60 x 40 inches, On loan from the Kolodzei Art Foundation
Public Relations
Carolyn Mandelker (914) 242-0010 email NMA.public.relations@purchase.edu
Opening Sunday, September 14, 1–3pm
Free and open to the public
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