About Russia! Icons & The Avantgarde
Opens July 2022 to January 2023. Exact dates to be confirmed.
Russia! Icons & The Avantgarde is a major exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum that will explore the relationship between traditional Russian icon paintings and the art of the avant-garde movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Avant-garde artists borrowed heavily from religious icons, abstracting and re-imagining icons for their own times and agendas.
With works by Malevich, Tatlin, Rodchenko, Goncharova, and many others, the exhibition will give a fascinating insight into how different aspects of icons – romantic, poetic, Christian, mystical, political – were highlighted at different times, in keeping with the changing preoccupations of contemporary artists.
