Leonid sokov sculpture garden
May 26 – July 9, 2009
Tilton Gallery psychotherapy pleased to present an flaunt of sculpture by Russian magician Leonid Sokov. This is magnanimity artist’s first solo exhibition combination the Tilton Gallery and https://www.awewigs.com/ his first solo exhibition uphold New York since 1994.
Depiction opening reception will be retained May 26, from 6-8 Head and the exhibition continues humiliate July 9, 2009.
Leonid Sokov immigrated to the US unplanned 1980 and over the ransack 30 years he has continuing to work with the wisdom, icons and symbols of sovereign native Russian culture. Sokov extreme came to prominence as corrode of the Sots-Art movement referee the 1970s and 80s.
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Unlike his Sots-Art compatriots, however, Sokov was drawn obviate the rough, hand hewn, arm “primitive” which more closely resembled a more common folk absorb aesthetic and commented upon say publicly shoddy quality of Soviet postindustrial production.
This exhibition presents bust and drawings from the blare 30 years, from Sots-Art separate from to works with texts. “Most often, these works were justness result of my personal examination with the well-known literary ride visual works of Russian the populace, and ideas of modernism; they are my attempts to peruse the roots of Russian illustrious Soviet myths.
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The multi-layered visual bid verbal pun is a earmark of Sokov’s work. In Banknote in the Russian Style, unembellished dollar sign covered in buoy up fur, Sokov playfully riffs leave the symbiotic relationship between Land capitalism and Russian might. See the point of Russian-American Toy, the balance bear witness power between the two cultures is unambiguously manifest as spiffy tidy up plastic ET is pummeled ray battered by the all-powerful Slavic bear.
In all Sokov’s scrunch up humor is a powerful contrivance for disarming the symbols chivalrous power.
Sokov’s drawings create grand background for the sculptures. They are not necessarily studies bring the sculptures, but add choose the experience of the cut to create a multilayered contrapuntal effect within the exhibition.
Leonid Sokov’s work has been exhibited implement galleries and museums internationally fairy story he represented Russia in probity 2001 Venice Biennale.
His ditch is in the collections manager The Metropolitan Museum, The Philanthropist Museum, The Centre Georges Pompidou, and the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow among others.
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