Pavel Pepperstein
22 Feb - 16 Mar 2005
Sutton Lane is pleased to announce the second exhibition of Moscow artist Pavel Pepperstein.
Pavel Pepperstein is one of the most influential artists of Russia’s new generation. In 1987 he co-founded the experimental group of artists called the Inspection Medical Hermeneutics, which, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, developed a critical approach towards the influence of Western culture into Russia.
In this new exhibition Pepperstein pursues his investigation of images, symbols and signs from mass culture, which he transforms into fanciful drawings.
His past exhibition at Sutton Lane in 2004 featured 18 drawings that combined real and fictional flags with colourful childlike drawings of flowers.
In this new exhibition Riders on the Storm Pepperstein introduces a new series of watercolours featuring further developments of his “political hallucinations”.
Combining imaginaries from Russian fairytales and legends with newspaper caricatures Pavel Pepperstein creates a dreamlike landscape populated by audacious riders and mythical knights.
Pavel Pepperstein lives and works in Moscow. His work has been the subject of numerous solo and group exhibitions such as the First Moscow Biennale of Contemporay Art, the Moscow Conceptualists' at the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, Berlin / Moscow, Martin-Gropius Bau in Berlin; Kunsthaus Zug, Switzerland and the Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Germany; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany.
Pavel Pepperstein is one of the most influential artists of Russia’s new generation. In 1987 he co-founded the experimental group of artists called the Inspection Medical Hermeneutics, which, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, developed a critical approach towards the influence of Western culture into Russia.
In this new exhibition Pepperstein pursues his investigation of images, symbols and signs from mass culture, which he transforms into fanciful drawings.
His past exhibition at Sutton Lane in 2004 featured 18 drawings that combined real and fictional flags with colourful childlike drawings of flowers.
In this new exhibition Riders on the Storm Pepperstein introduces a new series of watercolours featuring further developments of his “political hallucinations”.
Combining imaginaries from Russian fairytales and legends with newspaper caricatures Pavel Pepperstein creates a dreamlike landscape populated by audacious riders and mythical knights.
Pavel Pepperstein lives and works in Moscow. His work has been the subject of numerous solo and group exhibitions such as the First Moscow Biennale of Contemporay Art, the Moscow Conceptualists' at the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, Berlin / Moscow, Martin-Gropius Bau in Berlin; Kunsthaus Zug, Switzerland and the Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Germany; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany.