Pytania o sztukę radziecką dzisiaj. Madryt-Rzym-Moskwa
The Question of Soviet Art Today. Madrid – Rome – Moscow

Summary/Abstract: This text on various exhibitions of Russian art served the author as a pretext to ponder its reception. The exhibitions collected at the Red Cavalry. Creativity and Power in Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1945 in Madrid “represent almost all the spheres of art: […] they provide a fascinatingly complex picture of the epoch.” The Socialist Realism. Great Soviet Painting 1920-1970 exhibition in Rome devoted to realist art proved a “great interest in the avant-garde of the latter half of the 20th century, while obscuring the fact that it existed alongside an art that was an extension of 19th-century academism.” Osińska also describes two exhibitions in Moscow. The first, presenting the work of 19th-century realist painter Nikolai Ge, showed the popularity of this tradition among audiences. The second, then, an exhibition of works by William Kentridge, an African artist inspired by the Russian avant-garde, proved the artistic power of the avant-garde movement.

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