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Page 3 of 7 Bass Museum of Art. Russian Dreams... From Dec 4th, 2008 through Feb 8th, 2009 Russian Dreams… on view at the Bass Museum of Art includes a selection of cutting-edge works by contemporary artists from Russia who explore nostalgia, both as the subject of a myth and as an opposition to mythology. Guest curator Olga Svilova worked with designer Yuri Avvakumov, combining the work of Russian artists of the 1970s and 1980s, during the pivotal time when the “Russian underground art” was born, and the Perestroika was initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev. 1991 marked the collapse of Socialism. Today, after seventeen years living in a new socio-economic reality, nostalgia for long-lost myths still exists for its people. Works in the exhibition resonate with the disconnected, random associations of dreams and a sense of profound melancholy and lost.  Russian Dreams… brings the latest in contemporary Russian photography, video and installation art to Miami Beach, and explores the mindset of a new generation bearer of the ambivalence of twenty-first century Russia. Feathered Aggression, by Alexei Kostroma, ironically depicts a cannon covered with white feathers and may well serve as introductory image to the exhibition. Also, the work of Leonid Tishkov and Boris Bendikov, Roof from the Private Moon series, complements the exhibition embodying ideas of melancholy and isolation. Russian Dreams... is on view in the Gertrude Silverstone Muss Gallery through February 8th, 2009.Bass Museum of Art 2121 Park Avenue Miami Beach, FL 33139 305.673.7530 www.bassmuseum.org |
