So soft
Soz Art (соц арт) is the name for a specifically Soviet art development that deals with the symbols of Socialist Realism in the style of Western Pop Art and thus became one of the first art movements of Russian postmodernism .
Origin of the term
The term Soz Art goes back to the two Russian conceptual artists Vitaly Komar and Alex Melamid . At a 1972 Moscow art exhibition, Soviet architectural historian Vladimir Papernyi said that Komar and Melamid's works were reminiscent of a Soviet version of Western Pop Art.
Parallels to Pop Art
While Western Pop Art reflects the commodity aesthetics of the capitalist economic system, Soz Art plays with the ideological themes of socialism. Instead of the abundance of goods, the artists want to draw attention to the abundance of ideology . By alienating and ironizing the symbols, images and spellings of socialist realism , Soz Art, together with thaw literature, samizdat and tamizdat literature, is at the beginning of the analysis and criticism of socialist realism.
Representative of the Soz Art
- Vitaly Komar (born 1943), artist
- Alex Melamid (* 1945), artist
- Erik Wladimirowitsch Bulatov (* 1933), Russian painter
- Igor Alexejewitsch Novikow (* 1961), Russian-Swiss painter
- Aleksand Kosolapov (* 1943), Russian-American conceptual artist
- Vladimir Georgievich Sorokin , man of letters
- Timur Kiribov (* 1955), painter
- Dmitrij Alexandrowitsch Prigow (1940–2007), concept artist
- Leonid Sokov (* 1941), painter and sculptor
Collections and exhibitions
The Cologne couple Peter and Irene Ludwig were the first western collectors to buy Soz Art works in the former Soviet Union from 1978 onwards. Today, the pictures are part of the collection "From Russian Avant-garde to Soz Art" at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne .
- McLenin, tanks and bombers . House of Russian Sciences and Culture, Berlin 2000.
- Red star . The transformation of the Red Star: Soz-Art from the 60s to the 90s. University of Basel 2002.
Individual evidence
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