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Mother Tongue
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Yevgeniy Fiks, Juliet Jacques, Dan Healey and Sarah Wilson:
Panel discussion in association with Mother Tongue project
Apparition of the Last Soviet Artist in London
ShadowMemory x Art Night Open
Postponed Futures
Superwoman: ‘Work, Build and Don’t Whine'
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Iwona Blazwick and Zelfira Tregulova:
Roundtable Discussion -
Dolya Gavanski, Phoebe Taplin, April de Angelis, Maria Shevstova:
'Superwoman: The Changing Image And Role Of Women'
Unexpected Eisenstein
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Rachel Morley:
Russian Cinema before 1917 -
Ian Christie:
Besides Eisenstein: Protazanov, Barnet and the new Soviet cinema of the 1920s -
Ian Christie:
Maxim and co: creating the new heroes and heroines of the 1930s -
Phil Cavendish:
Soviet Colour Film, 1929-1945: An Experiment Understood by Very Few -
Jeremy Hicks:
Meaningful Martyrdom — Death, Revolution and Victory from Lenin to the Reichstag, 1924–45 -
Emma Widdis:
Film and the Making of the New Soviet Person: Bodies, Minds and Feelings -
Ian Christie:
Hopes and fears: the Soviet New Wave of the 1960s -
Carmen Gray:
Andrei Tarkovsky: The Citizen Poet and the State -
Jeremy Hicks:
Reusing War Footage in Russian and Soviet Films, 1945–2015
Peripheral Visions
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Francis Morris:
In conversation with Anthony D'Offay about Artist Rooms -
Ekaterina Degot:
In conversation with Olga Chernysheva
A Game in Hell. The Great War in Russia
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John E. Bowlt:
Introductory remarks -
Elena Sudakova:
'Forgotten Heroes of the Great War' -
Christina Lodder:
'A Painting Fit for Heroes: Kazimir Malevich's Reservist of the First Division' -
Natalia Budanova:
'Who Needs the Art Now?': Russian Women Artists Representing the Great War' -
Valentina Parisi:
'Russian Avant-Garde Circles and the Literary Response to the Great War'
Work and Play Behind the Iron Curtain
The Shabolovka Tower Model
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Tilly Blyth:
Seminar Event: Science Museum -
John Milner:
Seminar event: Courtauld Institute of Art -
Lutz Becker:
Seminar Event: Independent Art Historian -
Vladimir Shukhov:
Seminar Event: Fosters and Partners -
Xenia Vytuleva:
Seminar Event: Columbia University -
Henry Milner, Maker:
Seminar Event
Kino/Film: Soviet Posters of the Silent Screen
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Curators and Special Guests:
Panel Discussion with Exhibition -
Lutz Becker:
Curator talks: Chess Fever and The Three Million Case -
Lutz Becker:
Curator talks: Man with a Movie Camera -
Lutz Becker:
Curator talks: October -
Lutz Becker:
Curator talks: Storm Over Asia and Turksib -
Lutz Becker:
Curator talks: The End of St Petersburg -
Elena Sudakova:
Soviet Posters of the Silent Screen
Utopia LTD
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'Inside the Rainbow' Performance:
Directed by Irina Brown -
Professor John Milner:
Seminar: 'Re-Constructivism' -
Willem Jan Renders:
Seminar: 'After Lissitzky: Reconstructions at the Van Abbemuseum' -
Christina Lodder:
Seminar: 'Gustav Klucis: Transmitting Utopia' -
Aleksandr Shklyaruk:
Seminar: 'Klucis and the Materialisation of a Futurist Idea' -
Dr. Maria Tsantsanoglou:
Seminar: 'Tatlin's Legend'
Listen
Superwoman: ‘Work, Build and Don’t Whine'
Unexpected Eisenstein
Bolt
A Game in Hell. The Great War in Russia
Read
Sergey Sakharov
(1906–1969)
Sergei Sakharov was born in Nizhny Novgorod and studied at the Nizhny Novgorod Art Institute from 1925 to 1927. He then moved to Moscow and started his career by designing political posters, before moving into trade advertising. Sakharov created posters for Rechnoi Flot, Aeroflot and SoyuzPischeProm (for the latter he designed packaging as well). Starting from 1944 he was one of principal artists at the All-Union Chamber of Commerce.
Sakharov’s advertisements are hyperrealistic, yet at the same time they present an ideal world. The heroes of his posters are Soviet tropes such as the romantic captain, the brave pilot or the courageous polar explorer. Sakharov trained to be a sculptor and as a result not only displayed accuracy and expressiveness in his drawing but was also highly skilled in moulding colours to create the illusion of space and shadow. His works are also notable for their unconventional palette and a subtle understanding of the psychological effects of colours. During the 1940s and 1950s Sakharov became a leading figure in advertising poster design. He created the figure of the penguin that became the symbol of Soviet ice cream, as well as designing a famous export poster for Stolichnaya vodka. In 1957 he was awarded the title of Honoured Artist of the RSFSR.
