The Grand Hotel Europe and White Space Gallery presents the first exhibition of New Artists in the famous historical and arts venue of St Petersburg - Grand Hotel Europe. This exhibition will run alongside The Stroke - first major comprehensive retrospective of New Artists, the Leningrad underground art movement (1982-1995) at The State Russian Museum.
New Artists, which consists of paintings, drawings, collages and photographs from important private collections in St Petersburg, Moscow, London and New York will present many previously unseen works by Ivan Sotnikov, Oleg Kotelnikov, Timur Novikov, Georgy Gurianov, Sergey Bugaev Afrika, Sergey Chernov and Evgeny Yufit created before and during the Perestroika years. The New Artists, also refered to as New Painters, have rapidly gained international currency, enriching the lexicon of pop-culture and attracting the attention of Andy Warhol, Keith Haring and John Cage.
For more information, please contact:
Irina Khlopova
Public Relations Manager
+7 812 329 6608
irina.khlopova@grandhoteleurope.com
