Red Horizon: Contemporary Art and Photography in the USSR and Russia, 1960 - 2010

Exhibition: 16 Jun 2017 – 24 Sep 2017
Opening: 15 Jun 2017, 18

Red Horizon: Contemporary Art and Photography in the USSR and Russia, 1960 - 2010
Yuri Rybtchinski, From the series “Town” / Village Kitchen, 1976, gelatin silver print, 7 7/8 x 11 5/8 inches, Collection of Neil K. Rector.

Coinciding with the centennial of the 1917 Russian Revolution, Columbus Museum of Art presents Red Horizon: Contemporary Art and Photography in the USSR and Russia, 1960-2010, on view June 16 through September 24, 2017. This timely exhibition is drawn from two facets of Neil K. Rector’s world-class art collection: Soviet and Russian photography from the 1970s to the early 1990s, and the work of Moscow-based unofficial artists who came to prominence in the 1960s and 1970s. Combining more than 300 works from these two aspects of the collection, Red Horizon offers fresh perspective on the art and life of this period, and suggests how creativity and critical thinking manifest themselves under the most difficult social and ideological circumstances.

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