Finding Freedom in Russian Art, 1961-2014. Selections from the Kolodzei Art Foundation and the Collection of Dr. Wayne F. Yakes at Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum, Sept. 19 to Dec. 6, 2014

Finding Freedom in Russian Art, 1961-2014. Selections from the Kolodzei Art
Foundation and the Collection of Dr. Wayne F. Yakes. Paul and Lulu Hilliard
University Art Museum, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 710 East St.
Mary Boulevard, Lafayette, LA 70503, August 30 to December 6, 2014. Opening
reception Friday, September 19, 2014, 6-8pm.

 

Lafayette, LA. -  The works in this exhibition will highlight the evolution
of non-conformist and independent art in Russian from a time of rigid
censorship to the new democratic Russia. The works, spanning 1961 to 2014,
reflect the major wave of Russian alternative culture and describe the
history of non-conformist art processes and movements. The exhibition will
also highlight the rich diversity of art that emerged and survived during
the past forty years of the then Soviet Union and contemporary Russia.

Finding Freedom is one of two exhibitions this fall which consider the
history between the United States and the Soviet Union. From our allegiance
during WWII through the cold war and our current relationship, these
exhibitions will touch upon the tangled relationship between art and
politics.  Finding Freedom will complement the exhibition Through Jewish
Eyes to provide a deeper examination of the relationship between the United
States and Russia as well as illuminate the state of art history in the
Soviet Union at that time. 

 

This exhibition is curated by Natalia Kolodzei of the Kolodzei Foundation.

 

The artists featured in the exhibition include: 

Vitaly Komar & Alexander Melamid, Ilya Kabakov, Oleg Vassiliev, Oscar Rabin,
Ernst Neizvestny, Eduard Gorokhovsky, Petr Belenok, Vladimir Nemukhin,
Dimitri Krasnopevtsev, Francisco Infante, Eduard Shteinberg, Vyacheslav
Kalinin, Mihail Chemiakin, Dmitri Plavinsky, Erik Bulatov, Vladimir
Ovchinnikov, Leonid Sokov, Alexander Kosolapov, Leonid Lamm, Innessa
Levkova-Lamm, Valery Koshlyakov, Asya Dodina & Slava Polishook, Vladimir
Kupriyanov, Valera and Natasha Cherkashin, Alexander Zakharov, Igor Novikov,
Genia Chef, Marina Karpova, Arsen Savadov, Andrei Volkov, Ivan Govorkov &
Elena Gubanova, Olga Bulgakova, Alexander Sitnikov, Natalia Sitnikova, Anton
Kandinsky, Katya Filippova, Edward Bekkerman, Anna Frants, Igor Molochevski,
and Leonid Lazarev

 

The exhibition brings together paintings, sculpture, works on paper,
photography, video and digital art.

 

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The Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum in Lafayette, Louisiana is
Acadiana's architectural landmark and the largest art museum between Houston
and New Orleans. The Museum features a variety of changing exhibitions and a
continuing schedule of lectures and programs. Come enjoy the Museum and the
beauty of University of Louisiana at Lafayette campus, just blocks away from
the galleries, shops and famous restaurants of downtown Lafayette and the
Oil Center.

Hours Tuesday -Thursday 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM; Friday 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM;
Saturday 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM

 

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