The exhibition “Red. Art and Utopia in the Country of Soviets "opened in the Paris Grand Prix

Art and utopia of the Soviet Union went to Paris.

The anniversary of the October Revolution incredibly encouraged the interest of Western museum workers in the art of the Land of Soviets. A couple of years ago, the Royal Academy of Arts in London showed the Revolution exhibition, presenting the full range of artistic statements before social realism, until the 1930s. Now the curators from the Pompidou Center decided to go further and delve into the phenomenon of social realism right down to the thaw.

Two parts of the exposition as sides of the same medal: bold experiments of avant-garde artists - Gustav Klutsis, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Lyubov Popova, Alexander Rodchenko, Varvara Stepanova, and social realism, shown by the works of Alexander Deineka, Alexey Pakhomov, Yuri Pimenov, Alexander Samokhvalov and others.

The project curator, Nicolas Lucci-Gutnikov, spiced up all this diversity with works by foreign artists who were not alien to the ideas of communism. The most spectacular of them is the four-meter canvas “Honor and Glory to Andre Houllier” (1949) by French neo-realist Andre Fuzherona, dedicated to the deceased fighter for communism and shown at the exhibition of gifts to Stalin, and now stored in the Pushkinsky collection.

Paris, Grand Palais
Red. Art and Utopia in the Land of the Soviets
March 20 - July 1, 2019