Dmitry Gutov

Recent shows: 2008: "Russian Dreams" Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach; "Thaw: Russian Art From Glasnost to the Present" Chelsea Art Museum, New York. 2007: Documenta 12, Kassel, Germany; Russian Pavilion, 52nd Venice Biennial, Italy; The 2nd Moscow Biennial, The State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia, and Central House of Artist, Moscow; "Thinking Realism" State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. 2006: Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial,Japan; Russian Art,Sotheby's (Exhibition Hall), New York. 2005: "Russia!" Guggenheim Museum, New York.

 

Volta NY project: Incorporating various media, Gutov’s point of departure is a series of still-life paintings of well-known Twentieth Century Soviet book covers. Dialogue on the modernist legacy, power, knowledge as power and control, is central to the project “Relativism is Dialectics for Idiots.” Curated by Lorenzo Bruni.



Dmitry Gutov, ”Relativism is Dialectics for Idiots” 2007, oil on canvas, 47 1/4 x 39 1/2 in. (courtesy, Center for Contemporary Art, Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy)