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Apparition of the Last Soviet Artist in London
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    Apparition of the last Soviet Artist in London
ShadowMemory x Art Night Open
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Postponed Futures
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Superwoman: ‘Work, Build and Don’t Whine'
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  • Dolya Gavanski, Phoebe Taplin, April de Angelis, Maria Shevstova:
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Unexpected Eisenstein
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    Russian Cinema before 1917
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    Soviet Colour Film, 1929-1945: An Experiment Understood by Very Few
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    Film and the Making of the New Soviet Person: Bodies, Minds and Feelings
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    Hopes and fears: the Soviet New Wave of the 1960s
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Peripheral Visions
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  • Ekaterina Degot:
    In conversation with Olga Chernysheva
A Game in Hell. The Great War in Russia
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  • Elena Sudakova:
    'Forgotten Heroes of the Great War'
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    'A Painting Fit for Heroes: Kazimir Malevich's Reservist of the First Division'
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    'Who Needs the Art Now?': Russian Women Artists Representing the Great War'
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    'Russian Avant-Garde Circles and the Literary Response to the Great War'
Work and Play Behind the Iron Curtain
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    Soviet Fashion
The Shabolovka Tower Model
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    Seminar Event: Science Museum
  • John Milner:
    Seminar event: Courtauld Institute of Art
  • Lutz Becker:
    Seminar Event: Independent Art Historian
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Kino/Film: Soviet Posters of the Silent Screen
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    Soviet Posters of the Silent Screen
Utopia LTD
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Olga Rozanova

(1886-1918)

Born in Melenki, a town near Vladimir on 22 June 1886, Olga Rozanova came from a family of regional aristocrats. In her youth she was drawn to the dynamic new art scene that sought to reject traditional artistic values and moved to Moscow in an attempt to join the Stroganov School of Art. Whilst her application was rejected, by 1910 she was already renowned in many artistic and creative circles in Moscow and St Petersburg and exhibited with the Union of Youth in 1911. In 1913 she published an outspoken article for the group entitled “The Bases of the New Creation and the Reasons Why It Is Misunderstood.”

Like her contemporaries Rozanova was stylistically a Cubo-Futurist from the years 1913–14. She, more than any of her compatriots however was inspired by the Italian Cubo-Futurist ideals and style, as can be seen in her works Fire in the City and The City (both 1913–14). It was even said that the founder of Italian Cubo-Futurist art, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, was particularly impressed with her works on his visit to Moscow in 1914.

Another creative who was to have a huge influence on Rozanova’s work and life was the poet Aleksei Kruchenykh, who would later become her husband. Kruchenykh was the founder of transrational or ‘zaum’ poetry; poems comprised of meaningless words and sounds in an attempt to reverse the rigidity of traditional poetic expression. This inspired Rozanova to write her own poetry and form collaborations with poets such as Viktor (Velimir) Khlebnikov and Kruchenykh to illustrate the works they produced. These collaborations gave birth to a new type of publication – ‘sopismo’ – in which the poetry and illustrations were integrated on the page. Under the instruction of Kazimir Malevich, Rozanova created her own distinctive style of transrational painting, seen in her works Pub (1914) and Workbox (1915).

The height of Rozanova’s creative career is marked by the production of her playing card series, in which she painted a number of her contemporaries with a collection of playing card signs and symbols. 1916 saw her brief alliance with the ideals and style of the Suprematists, however Rozanova was much more decorative than Malevich and she retained her own signature style. In 1917 Rozanova began a series of ‘colour paintings’ which took abstract art in a new dynamic direction. Her burgeoning artistic career was tragically cut short on 8 November 1918; she died suddenly of diphtheria , aged only 32.