Grisha Bruskin "Twilight of the Gods"
Marlborough (Midtown)
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Entitled "Twilight of the Gods" the exhibition consists of an installation featuring thirty-three bronze sculptures which the artist cast in Tuscany, Italy and placed underground for several months in order to give them the appearance of an archaeological patina through the earth’s natural chemicals. Exhibited with the sculptures will be large photographs which the artist uses to document the process and which with the bronzes serve as a means for establishing a mythology. The artist’s basic idea for the installation is to create artifacts of a lost civilization. The sculptures appear in fragmented form to resemble fragments of sculpture from a lost civilization and at the same time represent symbolic remnants of the dissolved Soviet Union. They depict archetypes of an idealized people such as a farmer, a teacher, a soldier; types that were embodied in the countless sculptures seen everywhere in Russia under the communist regime and which manifested an alienating ideology and a mythical Soviet world.
[Image: Grisha Bruskin "Man in the Gas Mask" (2009) Bronze, natural patina and steel 70.5 x 25 x 21 in.]
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Schedule
from September 16, 2009 to October 17, 2009