June 01, 1996

The Art of the Unknown


Ernst Neizvestny, one of Russia’s greatest living artists, staged a landmark exhibition this year in Moscow. Christina Ling tells his story, and provides insight into some of the work that most Russians are seeing for the first time.

 

The 1962 exhibition of contemporary art at the Manezh gallery in Moscow was nothing short of a sensation. One reason was the fact that it offered an official public forum for abstractionists, for the first time since Stalin’s reign of terror.


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