This exhibition
features more than fifty works of the Sterligov School from the Norton
and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union.
This group of abstract painters worked in Leningrad from 1960-1990.
More than any other group, their art demonstrates the self-conscious
continuity of early twentieth-century Russian avant-garde practices
in nonconformist art of the post-World War II Soviet Union. Led by the
charismatic painter and teacher, Vladimir Sterligov (1904-1973) these
artists based their approach on Kazimir Malevich's Suprematism and Mikhail
Matiushin's Organic Culture. Sterligov, together with wife, Tatiana
Glebova and his students, Elena Gritsenko and Gennadii Zubkov, sought
to convey their perception of the world as a non-representational reality,
"a visible invisibility, and a visibility unseen." This exhibition
is curated by Isabel Wünsche, a scholar from Jacobs University
of Bremen.
image and announcement
at: http://zamweb.rutgers.edu/exhibitions/index.php?id=55