Dmitry Gutov "In Our Days, Everything Seems Pregnant with its Contrary"
Scaramouche
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Scaramouche presents a solo exhibition by prominent Moscow-based artist Dmitry Gutov, his first in a New York gallery. "In Our Days, Everything Seems Pregnant with its Contrary" features a new collection of tall, plinth-like canvases marked by theses from Karl Marx's People's Paper, Grundrisse, and other publications and speeches. With typography reminiscent of El Lissitzky's poster designs and other Constructivist propaganda, Gutov resuscitates the fertile but brief avant-garde legacy of Leninist Russia only to abstract it. Breaking, fragmenting, and otherwise layering text, Gutov's stylization both obscures and highlights his Communist source material, an apt painterly manifestation of an ephemeral moment in Soviet history when society was both class-less and post-capitalist. Complemented by a group of smaller paintings in the project space, "In Our Days, Everything Seems Pregnant with its Contrary" is only the latest development for an artist concerned with this Soviet epoch; it must, in Gutov's words, be "pieced together again from fragments, from feeble traces in the ruins, from scraps, intimations and shadows."
[Image: Dmitry Gutov "In Our Days, Everything Seems Pregnant with its Contrary" (2010) oil on canvas 41 x 72 in.]
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from September 12, 2010 to October 31, 2010
Opening Reception on 2010-09-12 from 18:00 to 20:00