LEST WE FORGET: MASTERS OF SOVIET DISSENT presents the work of two of the Soviet Union's most original and courageous dissident artists, Leonhard Lapin and Alexander Zhdanov.During the 1970s and 1980s, their refusal to paint in the official Socialist Realilsm style was a direct challenge to the Soviet system and the work each produced was highly distinctive. We believe it deserves far greater recognition by museum curators and collectors and will eventually take its rightful place in the canon of 20th Century art. This exhibit opened May 7th to coincide with Vladimir Putin's 3rd Inauguration as President of the Russian Federation, LEST WE FORGET the important role artists have played, and will continue to play, defying the diktats of a one party State. Through June 30.
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I will exhibit and sell fine art I admire for its quality and originality as well as its social and political significance. I will also show work by artists I admire for the risks they have taken to defend their artistic freedom and/or the political and human rights of others. By showing the work of these artists, I hope to influence the way their art is viewed, understood and valued by museum curators, art historians, art critics and collectors throughout the world. Charles Krause