Saturday, October 30, 2010

Engineers of the Soul - groupshow - Postmasters Gallery - NY




a show about communism and artists' relationship to power

chto delat? (what is to be done?), yevgeniy fiks, rainer ganahl, lu xiangyou, yuri shalamoff, wang jianwei

This time it's personal.

For better or worse Tamas Banovich and I are children of Communism, having grown up in Hungary and Poland respectively. We have always wanted to organize an exhibition that brings together Communism's past, present, and future and shows artists' ongoing relationships to power and ideology as they negotiate the treacherous zones of propaganda and dissent.

The moment seems right. With growing political extremism at both ends of the spectrum, Communism is on our collective radar. Since the fall of the Soviet block in the early nineties, we have thought of Communism as the past, yet there are millions of people who are still living under communist regimes and many more who live with its consequences and legacies.

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