1. Face to Face With Stalinist Horrors.
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GENOCCHIO, BENJAMIN
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ART exhibitions , *ART museums , *ARTISTS , *ARTISTIC creation - Abstract
Has any artist captured human misery with more shocking clarity than Boris Sveshnikov? None that I can think of. His Vetlosian series of drawings, ink on yellowed paper, humble things really, are brutally simple: They bring us face to face with the horrors of life in a Stalinist labor camp in the 1950s. Sveshnikov (1927-1998) is the subject of an unsettling two-part retrospective at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum. The show's title is ominous and to the point: ''Painting for the Grave: The Early Work of Boris Sveshnikov.'' It comes from a quote from the artist, who once remarked cryptically to an interviewer that his works were ''dedicated to the grave.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
- Published
- 2008