Elena Figurina (painting).
The name of Elena Figurina is well known to the cognoscenti of Soviet contemporary painting. Her works, so strikingly forthright in their exposition of the most intimate aspects of man’s psyche and so uncompromising in form, gained the favour of the public from the very start of Figurina’s contributions to the exhibitions of the Association of Experimental Visual Arts. Continue reading →

Aidan Salakhova (Moscow). Habibi (painting, graphics).
Aidan Salakhova has long been recognised as a defender of beauty and a beautiful woman. While both claims are fully justified, they still do not fully explain the essence of her art. Fifteen years ago, wanting to differ from everybody else, Salakhova produced brutal pictures of phalluses and vaginas. Continue reading →