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Russian Art - Blue Noses, Red Faces

Next week will see the opening of an exhibition of Russian art at the La Maison Rouge gallery in Paris. Entitled ‘Sots Art: Political Art in Russia From 1972 to Today’ (or l’art politique en Russie depuis 1972, for all you linguaphiles) , the exhibition will showcase examples of the Sots Art movement that began in an apartment in 1972 and was later embraced and developed by artists such as Alexander Kosolapov and Dmitri Prigov throughout the 1970’s and 80’s. Shunned by mainstream (and state sanctioned) galleries, artists exhibited their work in their homes, giving rise to the first genuine artistic movement in Russia since the avant-garde art of the early 1920’s.

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