Nonconformist artists from Moscow
The "non-conformists", or the "unofficials", refer to the artists who emerged in the 1950s in Russia and who refused to comply with the official doctrine of socialist realism. Creating and satisfying his intellectual curiosity was then done at the cost of great risk. Under these conditions, the artists, who piled up their works in the apartments and workshops, aspired to transmit and preserve their works by any means. They produced texts, constituted archives and tried to send works abroad when they were not in exile. In order to write the history of this contemporary creation, the idea of a museum that would be dedicated to it arose. Art historian Andrei Erofeev took on this task as difficult as it was dangerous. He is the curator of the exhibition organized at the MO.CO in Montpellier which traces, as well as its catalog, the history of its non-conformist art collection, from its beginnings to the turn of the 1980s and during its long years of clandestinity before it joined the contemporary art department of the Tretiakov Gallery in the early 2000s. In an interview with Jean-Hubert Martin, Andreï Erofeev addresses the questions of identity posed by his collection in the history of Russian art and the criteria that determined the selection of works, modeled on Western classifications of art. Less a style than an attitude towards power and a transgression of artistic norms, the non-conformist community represents various trends in contemporary art. The many records in the catalog comment on these productions in their Russian context while placing them within an international network. But the entrance to the museum of Andreï Erofeev's collection did not close his story. The catalog has the merit of addressing the censorship that these contemporary artistic forms continue to undergo, as evidenced by the text by Pauline De Laboulaye which relates the obstacles erected by the Russian authorities, particularly wrinkled by the works of the Blue Noses group, to the organization of the exhibition Sots Art, Political Art in Russia from 1972 to today at the Maison rouge in Paris in 2007-2008. As a result of these adventures, Andreï Erofeev is dismissed from the Tretiakov Gallery and becomes a "nerukopozhatnyi", that is to say "the one to whom we no longer extend our hand.
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