| A selection of prints and paintings by Russian artist Vladimir Viderman, a 1971 graduate of St. Petersburg's Mukhina School of Arts and Industry, will demonstrate the artist's interest in geometry, color and composition and his pursuit of themes relating to human relationships, interaction and performance in sports, activities at the beach and the circus.
Viderman (b. 1945) is widely regarded as one of the most important Leningrad (St. Petersburg) nonconformist artists. While continuing to some extent the abstract, geometric innovations of the Russian avant-garde artists of the 1920s and drawing from the diversity of geometric styles that emerged in western European art after Cubism, Viderman has selectively seized upon a range of sources (many of which involved the use of geometry or geometric forms) that he has found compatible with his own way of thinking to explore new means of expression to convey the experience of modernity.
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The Department of Russian and East Asian Languages and Culture and The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. |
