From the heart of the Cold War, advertising for a Communist future that never arrived

CHICAGO, IL.- The University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art presents Vision and Communism, the first major museum exhibition to focus on the aggressive, emotionally charged work of Soviet artist and designer Viktor Koretsky (1909–1998). Featuring more than ninety posters, photographs, and maquettes—the majority of which date from the heart of the Cold War—the exhibition reveals a Communist vision of the world that is utterly unlike that of conventional propaganda. “Twenty years after the fall of the Soviet Union, Koretsky and his art [...]

Alexey Titarenko: Black and White Saint-Petersburg at Pobeda Gallery

MOSCOW.- “The display of undeveloped” – is a special project of Pobeda gallery created to represent to moscovites the photography of an artist Alexey Titarenko, who’s works with classic technologies and modernists black and white photography are well-known all over the world. This is one of the very few cases of the international recognition of a contemporary Russian photographer. The exhibition at Pobeda gallery happens at the same time as the one in New York. Both expositions are in a [...]