A painting in the First Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art titled Metamorphose. I’m not one for modern art, but I think this picture is a pretty wry take on post-Soviet Russia. What does this picture say to you?


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It looks like a track runner holding a baton being punched by a mangled soldier. It’s way abstract if I’m looking at it right. Those with superior art-interpretation skills please enlighten me.

Peter added these pithy words on 28 Jan 05 at 10:29 pm

...oh yeah. This is my favorite piece of modern art. A kinetic sculpture that reflects the happenings of a market; the epitome of capitalism. That’s my kind of art!

Peter added these pithy words on 28 Jan 05 at 10:35 pm

Anyone in New Jersey should go to the Rutgers New Brunswick campus and check out the university-owned Zimmerli museum’s collection of noncomformist Soviet art. There’s some great stuff in there.

Mutantfrog added these pithy words on 28 Jan 05 at 10:42 pm

The Hammer and Sickle is reduced to a pile of rotting meat? And it comes to the person on the right as a fleeting daydream? And she’s holding a copy of The Economist? Beats me.

Adamu added these pithy words on 29 Jan 05 at 7:24 am
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