10 Artists Who Were Victims of Repressions, Remembered in Street Art
Nikolai Gumilyov. Vsevolod Meyerhold. Boris Pilnyak. Osip Mandelstam. Alexander Vvedensky. Pavel Florensky. Gustav Shpet. Nikolai Klyuev. Mikhail Koltsov. Daniil Kharms.
All famous Russian artists who fell victim to repressions in the Soviet gulag between the 1920s and the 1940s.
As part of a new exhibition by the Russian street artist Zoom, portraits of the 10 artists feature on the wall next to the GULAG History Museum in Moscow. As part of the interactive experience, the portraits can only be seen when sprayed with water.
Here are some of the portraits and a video below:
All famous Russian artists who fell victim to repressions in the Soviet gulag between the 1920s and the 1940s.
As part of a new exhibition by the Russian street artist Zoom, portraits of the 10 artists feature on the wall next to the GULAG History Museum in Moscow. As part of the interactive experience, the portraits can only be seen when sprayed with water.
Here are some of the portraits and a video below:
Gustav Shpet
Courtesy of Gulag Museum
Daniil Kharms
Courtesy of Gulag Museum
Nikolai Gumilyov
Courtesy of Gulag Museum
Osip Mandelstam
Courtesy of Gulag Museum
Nikolai Gumilyov
Courtesy of Gulag Museum
Vsevolod Meyerhold
Courtesy of Gulag Museum
Courtesy of Gulag Museum
