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Soviet Antiquity
Avant-garde Center on Shabolovka
2018
2018
This research exhibition continued the trajectory set by the 2017 project Surrealism in the Land of the Bolsheviks, curated by Aleksandra Selivanova and Nadya Plungyan, offering new approaches to the study and presentation of Soviet pre-war art.
The exhibition aimed to explore how Soviet artists, architects, and designers of the early 1930s sought to create and crystallize a "new classicism", forging a dialogue between the formal and analytical techniques of the avant-garde and a new sensuality, between the delicacy of Pompeian frescoes and the monumental forms of Roman architecture, between the metaphysics of De Chirico and Soviet reality.
Despite the conviction of Soviet artists in the autonomy of their approach, painting, graphics, sculpture, architecture, design, theater, and cinema in the USSR of the early 1930s still existed within a shared conceptual space with Art Deco, metaphysical realism, and the "monumental order" in Italy, France, and the United States.
The exhibition featured works by artists from the OST group, including Shevchenko, Rozhdestvensky, Ermolaeva, Eisenstadt, Pakhomov, Samokhvalov, Platov, and Rublev, sourced from private collections, alongside architectural projects by Iofan, Golosov, and Barkhin, as well as previously unseen diploma projects by students of the Moscow Architectural Institute from the 1930s.
The exhibition aimed to explore how Soviet artists, architects, and designers of the early 1930s sought to create and crystallize a "new classicism", forging a dialogue between the formal and analytical techniques of the avant-garde and a new sensuality, between the delicacy of Pompeian frescoes and the monumental forms of Roman architecture, between the metaphysics of De Chirico and Soviet reality.
Despite the conviction of Soviet artists in the autonomy of their approach, painting, graphics, sculpture, architecture, design, theater, and cinema in the USSR of the early 1930s still existed within a shared conceptual space with Art Deco, metaphysical realism, and the "monumental order" in Italy, France, and the United States.
The exhibition featured works by artists from the OST group, including Shevchenko, Rozhdestvensky, Ermolaeva, Eisenstadt, Pakhomov, Samokhvalov, Platov, and Rublev, sourced from private collections, alongside architectural projects by Iofan, Golosov, and Barkhin, as well as previously unseen diploma projects by students of the Moscow Architectural Institute from the 1930s.
Curators
Aleksandra Selivanova
Nadezhda Plungyan
Exhibition Architecture
Aleksandra Selivanova
Graphic Design
Irina Goryacheva
Coordination
Valentina Khaltanova
Aleksandra Selivanova
Nadezhda Plungyan
Exhibition Architecture
Aleksandra Selivanova
Graphic Design
Irina Goryacheva
Coordination
Valentina Khaltanova
