Tag: Vagrich Bakhchanyan

  • Thinking Pictures: Moscow Conceptual Art in the Dodge Collection

    As viewers, we witness Moscow conceptualism caught in a perpetual bind between the Romantic obscurity of the “inside” and the unattainable transparency of the “outside.” For us, then, Moscow conceptualism remains incurably Romantic

  • Vagrich Bakhchanyan: Accidental Absurdity

    Vagrich Bakhchanyan was a follower of the Russian avant garde and a precursor of Moscow conceptualism and Sots art, as he strove to highlight the deadening absurdity of Soviet authoritarianism and officialdom