Ksenya S. PODOLSKAYA Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia
48 emb. Rivers Moika, Saint-Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation
Senior Lecturer, the department of Art History and Pedagogy of Art
Ph.D. in History of Arts
e-mail: fonpodol@gmail.com
ORCID: 0000-0002-1311-909X
Images of Soviet Culture in Modern Sculpture FormsAbstract: The article is devoted to existence of Soviet images in the sculptural artworks of authors, who were born in the 1980s-1990s. The experience of artistic comprehension of life in the USSR in Soviet and Russian art is nothing new. This topic has been actively developed and continues to do so in the works of conceptual artists, representatives of pop art and social art. Appeal to the problems of life in the USSR, the cultural code of a soviet person and his life in the artworks of Ilya Kabakov, Viktor Pivovarov, Eric Bulatov, Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid seems quite natural, these authors were born and lived in the Soviet Union, their artistic images are built on direct personal experience of Soviet everyday life. Within the framework of this study, the artworks of Mayana Nasybullova, the art group «Kuril chto» (Smoked what), Ivan Tuzov and Alexander Zakirov, Alexander Berzing, Andrey Syailev were considered. The images of Soviet everyday life in one form or another appear in the works of authors whose life experience is not burdened by the direct experience of Soviet culture and life, these artists do not have direct contact with this historical time, they are faced with various artifacts of this period, the mythological space of the USSR generated by different forms of nostalgia. The experience of this experience in young authors gives rise to new artistic narratives. Based on the types of nostalgia identified by S. Boim, restorative and reflective, it can be determined that all the works of artists considered in the article are different variations of reflective nostalgia. The article highlights three main types of narrative building, which may have intersections with each other: 1) place-finding narrative, 2) narrative recollection, 3) narrative of negation. The narratives of the artworks of young authors are based on the awareness of the temporal distance between the past and the present, the images of leaders do not bear the features of real historical figures, Soviet everyday life appears as a reflection of childhood memories. At the same time, realizing the closeness of the Soviet era to the present, the authors seek to find a place for images of the past in modern culture.
Key words: Russian contemporary art, Soviet everyday life, sculpture, conceptualism, artifact, nostalgia, restorative nostalgia, reflective nostalgia, narrative.
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For Citation: Podolskaya, K. (2022) Images of Soviet Culture in Modern Sculpture Forms. International Journal of Cultural Research, 2 (47). 70–78. DOI: 10.52173/2079-1100_2022_2_70
DOI: 10.52173/2079-1100_2022_2_70
