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october 07, 2022 - Fondazione Brescia Musei
Victoria Lomasko: The Last Soviet Artist curated by Elettra Stamboulis
The Municipality of Brescia, Fondazione #brescia Musei and Festival della pace (Peace Festival) present the first Italian solo exhibition of Russian dissident artist Victoria Lomasko. The exhibition entitled Victoria Lomasko. The Last Soviet Artist curated by #elettrastamboulis, opens Friday 11 November 2022 and will be on display until Sunday 8 January 2023 in the exhibition spaces of the Santa Giulia Museum in #brescia.
The exhibition, presented as part of Brescia’s Festival della Pace is the third instalment of the research programme undertaken by #fondazionebresciamusei under the curatorship of #elettrastamboulis: a project which initiated in 2019 with the Zehra Doğan’s show We will also have better days. Works from Turkish Prisons, and continued in 2021 with Badiucao’s La Cina non è vicina. Opere di un artista dissidente (China is not near. Works by a dissident artist).
Victoria Lomasko’s exhibition sets out to present a comprehensive overview of the Russian artist’s production with a site-specific display. Lomasko is in fact to spend a period in residence in #brescia in order to create sitespecific works dedicated to what she has been experiencing and observing in recent months. Lomasko’s artistic research offers a detailed reconstruction of Russia’s social and political history from 2011 to the present day: from the anti-Putin demonstrations that the artist drew from life with her original and recognisable style, to the representations of “deep Russia”, the country of the destitute and marginalised, a subject that has always been among her favourites.
Lomasko was born in Serpukhov, 99 km south of Moscow, in 1978. Her father, a metalworker in this small town entirely dedicated to industrial production, secretly acted as an agitprop artist. Perhaps this family tradition inspired her strongly committed and non-conformist outlook.
Lomasko graduated in Graphic Arts from the Moscow State University in 2000, and after that she soon embarked on an uneasy path of research pairing observation and action, documentary drawing and performance, activism and personal commitment, translating into the artist’s body being physically part of a group.
This aspect of her practice encompasses the entire artistic biography of Lomasko, who since March 2022 has been living in Europe, despite having tried to remain in her country so as not to not interrupt her testimony. The artist is in fact part of a global movement that employs drawing as a tool of resistance and documentation.
Regarded by English-speaking critics and press as the most important Russian social graphic artist, Lomasko is essentially still unknown to the Italian public, although her books have long since been translated into English, German, French, and Spanish. The Other Russia won the Pushkin House Book Prize in 2018, despite never being published in Russia. A documentary, The Last Soviet Artist, directed by musician and composer Geraint Rhys, was made about her and she has been interviewed by the international media several times. Her works have been presented at the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, which has acquired part of her archive, in Basel, and London, and she is currently a guest at Documenta in Kassel.
The curatorial decision to show a specific work through which since 2005 Lomasko has been mapping the destitute, the rebels, and the marginalised living in the boundless and complicated Russia dates back to before the outbreak of the conflict with Ukraine. Russia’s attack has made Lomasko’s visual narrative even more pressing.
One month after its opening, the exhibition will be presented during a talk held in #brescia that will see the participation of the artist. The talk will be part of the initiatives connected to the Festival della Pace, an event under the patronage of the European Parliament.
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue published by Skira.
With this new project, #fondazionebresciamusei continues its exhibition format dedicated to the narration of the present day through art, establishing a dialogue to interpret the most significant contemporary historical phenomena. Zehra Doğan’s and Badiucao’s shows, two highly successful exhibitions with over 50,000 visitors, confirmed the Santa Giulia Museum as a venue for the discovery of great international artists mostly unknown in Italy. This project is a multifaceted initiative where contemporary art and human rights may find a synthesis in bringing to the fore dissident and activist artists, mostly unpublished in the West.
Fondazione #brescia Musei is a public-private participation foundation chaired by Francesca Bazoli and directed by Stefano Karadjov. #fondazionebresciamusei includes the following institutions: Santa Giulia Museum, Brixia. Roman #brescia Archaeological Park, Luigi Marzoli Arms Museum, Museum of the Risorgimento – Lioness of Italy, and the Nuovo Eden Cinema.
Together with the Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo, Fondazione #brescia Musei is the leading institution of the Rete dell’800 Lombardo (Nineteenth-Century Lombard Art Network) founded in 2004 and reconstituted in 2019 with the support of Regione Lombardia.
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