In Culture, one of its most important dominants is historical memory and its artistic comprehension. In the project “Red Horse of the Revolution” we see a very timely, modern and relevant appeal to our recent history, to a whole era in the life of the people united by the USSR, and now painfully interpreting its new state.
Many factual materials, myths and the desire to clarify the past, giving it a more positive sound, take part in this spiritual work.
The author of the project is Dmitry Plotkin, who for 30 years has consistently explored the phenomenon of human civilization and its main component, Culture, this time offering us its understanding of the historical process as a kind of periodically recurring “canon”.
For this, he uses a variety of tools. On the one hand, these are pictures whose presence in the project turns it into an artistic one. And here we see a very accurate hit with the choice of authors who wrote paraphrase canvases on the famous Petrov-Vodkin painting “Bathing a red horse.” Each artist managed to brilliantly express the main theses of the project, defining it in a philosophical message.

The second important language is the chronicle photos, objectively highlighting the exploits and tragedies of our recent history.
And finally, another important expressive language in this project are posters that lead with unpredictable dialogue with photographic photos, allowing you to fully experience the historical truth.
This part of the project called “The Beginning of a New Era” (curated by Lyubov Butko, the partner of the art project is the Rarita Gallery) you will see this time in tandem with the main works.
It presents rare pre-revolutionary and Soviet posters, engravings, attributes of the Soviet era. Having started the excursion into the past with the “Last Judgment” exhibit in 1906, viewers will see all the main stages of the country's life, right up to 1991. Look into an old suitcase with personal belongings and documents of a Soviet person ...
Curators: Dmitry Plotkin and Lyubov Butko.

Information:
Nikolskaya Gallery in POP UP MUSEUM of contemporary Russian art.
Address: 17, Butlerov Street, Design Office BC NEO GEO - Atrium 6.
The nearest metro station "Kaluzhskaya".
Opening hours of the exhibition: Tuesday - Sunday from 12:00 to 20:00, Monday - day off.
Free admission.