Eduard Gorokhovsky: From Siberia to Moscow, Selected Works on Paper is presented by the Kolodzei Art Foundation and the Harriman Institute.
Exhibit runs from January 29 – March 30, 2018. Exhibit hours are Monday–Friday, 9:00AM – 5:00PM excluding university holidays.
Please join us at 6:00pm on Wednesday, January 31 for an opening reception.
This exhibition features selected drawings from the late 1960s and early 1970s by prominent Russian artist Eduard Gorokhovsky (1929-2004), including works produced while he was living and working in Novosibirsk and artist’s prints from his Moscow period.
Eduard Gorokhovsky was born in 1929 in the town of Vinnytsa (Ukraine). In 1954 he graduated from the Odessa Engineer and Building Institute majoring in architecture, studying under A. Postel, T. Frayerman, G. Gotgelf, and A. Kopylov. His first solo exhibition took place in 1967 in Novosibirsk. In 1973 Eduard Gorokhovsky moved from Novosibirsk to Moscow. Since 1991, Gorokhovsky has lived and worked in Offenbach, Germany. Gorokhovsky participated in many exhibitions in Russia, the United States, and Europe; his paintings and works on paper are in major museums around the world.
Eduard Gorokhovsky was one of the first Soviet Nonconformist artists to use old photographic portraits, into which he inserted a text, a silhouette, another photograph, and geometric figures as the main source for his prints and paintings, creating intentionally unresolved serial images. The photographs provide a framework that kept an artwork in balance, while the intruding objects add a certain intrigue to the whole. Many of Gorokhovsky’s works convey a sense of history or the process of change, often alluding to the disappearance of individuality in a totalitarian society or the destruction of the family unit brought on by the Bolshevik Revolution, a successio of devastating wars, and the forced relocations resulting from the Stalinist policy of collectivization.
