07:40 a.m.: Russian dissident art on display in Paris
Russian avant-garde Moscow 73, Russian avant-garde Moscow 2023: 50 years apart, eight artists representing two generations of artistic dissidence, from the former Soviet Union and contemporary Russia, are exhibited in Paris for a few weeks .
The Dina Vierny gallery presents until the end of January “an almost complete reconstruction of the 1973 exhibition in Paris, where five non-conformist artists who had clandestinely fled the USSR were presented for the first time to the French public by this famous collector and patron », Explains Dimitri Ozerkov, former curator of the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg and curator of the exhibition, himself in exile in France with his family since March 2022.