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PRESS RELEASE The artistic debut of Arsen Savadov, a Ukrainian artist, occurred at the end of the 1980's. With the Soviet era not yet over, he joined an international movement that focused on a 'return to painting'. Using aggressive colors, Savadov's massive canvases from this period feature strange and hallucinatory subjects that are referential, irrational, hyper-visual and erotic. Critics referred to this work as Neo-Baroque (17th century Baroque is, in fact, associated with Ukrainian artistic tradition). READ MORE |
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