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February 22 - June 14, 2008
Moscow – New York = Parallel Play
Selections from the Kolodzei Art Foundation Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art. Curated by Natalia Kolodzei
Vitaly Komar, Alex Melamid, Soul of Norton Dodge (From the project Corporation for Buying and Selling Souls ), wood, metals, white string, and certificate on red paper, 6-3/4x10-1/8x5-1/8 inches, 1978-79. Kolodzei Art Foundation, Inc.
The Kolodzei Collection, founded by Tatiana Kolodzei in Moscow during the
height of the Cold War and continued today with her daughter, Natalia, is
one of world's largest private collections of Russian and Eastern European
Art, with over 7,000 pieces by more than 300 artists from Russia and the
former Soviet Union, chronicling four decades of nonconformist art from the
post-Stalinist era to the present. The Kolodzei Collection is a living, open
entity, which continues to grow, and reflect changes in culture, while
reacting to the variable nature of contemporary art.
The exhibition Moscow-New York=Parallel Play: Selections from the Kolodzei
Art Foundation Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art was first
shown at the National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA) in Moscow in 2007.
The exhibition highlights the artistic axis of the two cities, representing
Russian artists living or working in these two art capitals and creating
with their art an international context and distinctive intellectual plastic
Russian "rhyme" in the international art community.
The works reflect the major current of Russian alternative culture and
describe the history of independent, or "non-conformist" art processes and
movements from the 1960s to the present.
Artists in the exhibition include: Vagrich Bakhchanyan, Petr Belenok, Eric
Bulatov, Ivan Chuikov, Rimma Gerlovina and Valeriy Gerlovin, Francisco
Infante, Ilya Kabakov, Vyacheslav Koleichuk, Vitaly Komar and Alex Melamid,
Dmitri Krasnopevtsev, Leonid Lamm, Ernst Neizvestny, Vladimir Nemukhin,
Dmitri Plavinsky, Oscar Rabin, Leonid Sokov, Eduard Shteinberg, Oleg
Vassiliev, and Vladimir Yankilevsky, as well as artists of the younger
generation.
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