May 12
The Index
1 result(s)
- Contes Russes - SMALL&CO Galleryhighlight
1- Dasha Yastrebova, Ghost, 2007, color photograph, Lambda print, 28 x 41 cm (11" x 16")
2- Marcin Sobolev, Blue Cat, 2008, indian ink, acrylic and lacquer on hand- moulded resin, h 40 cm (16")A ghost photographed, a young woman naked, her transparent belly revealing a golden fish, a matryoshka doll with the face of a blue cat, a mother hugging her dead child...
For its summer show, the SMALL&CO gallery gathers young Russian artists around the notion of the tale. As its director Liza Fetissova writes, "for a Russian, a traditional tale is a story heard in childhood that follows him or her forever: through the characters carved in wood at the playground, through the first books, through cartoons, jokes and expressions, dramas and ballets. Russian artists cannot escape a tale."
The folkloric themes, stamped in the collective unconscious, are thus exhibited in broad daylight. Photography, sculpture, painting, but also graffiti, embroidery or drawing, take up these motifs with a fully contemporary immediacy, irony and visual style.
Contes Russes
June 19 through August 20, 08
SMALL&CO Gallery
1, avenue Trudaine Paris 9°
01 45 26 04 60
For more information on the young Russian artists represented by RussianTeaRoom, visit russiantearoom.fr
