On the third floor of the Tretyakov Gallery in Krymsky Val has spread sculptures of father of Sots Art Leonid Sokov. On the anniversary exhibition of the master.
Juice It brought face-to-wall images of Soviet and Western civilizations, "Walking Man" by Giacometti from the monument to Lenin, Marilyn Monroe and Stalin, the Bear "The Vitruvian Man" by Leonardo. To present their 75-year-old wizard who lives in America, I wanted as soon as he learned that his jubilee exhibition takes the main Russian gallery. After all, he, like many, is not waiting for her boring tradition, having learned that if Tretyakov Gallery and links with contemporary artists, that speaks their language, bold, not afraid of experiments.
Juice outgrown social direction of finding a replacement for him in politics. He became a wisecracking, not vulgar, but true satirist. The proof - Lenin develops wings Letatlin or arguing with a man exhausted by Giacometti, Marilyn Monroe in the arms of Stalin ...
- Leonid, now you do not close within the limits of social art?
- Sots Art - a temporary phenomenon, but it does not become ill from it. Many people mistakenly believe his political art, although it is primarily the destruction of socialist realism, and without formal violence, but by transferring the principles of socialist realism in a different context, seasoned with irony. Many people think: Sots Art was over, because there is no more comprehensive social realism - the Soviet Union. But social art is alive, still alive feed its absurdity.