The Revolution is dead. Long live the Revolution!Zentrum Paul Klee Main address:
Zentrum Paul KleeWells Fargo CenterMonument im Fruchtland 33006Bern, SwitzerlandZentrum Paul KleeWells Fargo CenterMonument im Fruchtland 33006Bern, SwitzerlandThe exhibition at Kunstmuseum Bern retraces Socialist Realism in contemporary
art and its many shifts and changes since the Russian Revolution. In 1915
Malevich′s first Black Square painting reached the “zero point of painting”. Only
two years later, Russia actually underwent a political and social revolution. In its
representations of socialist themes, Propaganda Art not only embraced a realistic
style, it also programmatically expressed a societal concept by promoting a
society that did not exist then and never will.As the former Soviet Union reached crisis point and began to disintegrate, visual
idioms were transformed. Timid criticism eventually turned into pastiche and,
in the postmodern period, into subversive set pieces now devoid of ideological
messages. Having gradually loosened the stays of socialist rhetoric, artists began
to use the now meaningless visual ciphers in works that express their scathing
criticism of a disillusioned and cynical late-capitalist society. Book tickets
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