Erik Bulatov
Nasrath

The second part of the collaboration between the BPS22 and a/political, the exhibition BLACK HORIZON brings together for the first time two Russian artists from different generations, Erik Bulatov (1933) and Andrei Molodkin (1966).

A key figure amongst the “Muscovite conceptualists” and close to Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Bulatov drew inspiration from Soviet propaganda to nurture a style of painting which subtly summarises the history of art. Starting out from a few popular expressions (HACPATь which means “shit on”) written in Russian, he paints monumental canvases which destabilise the spectator  through an illusion of depth which, in  turn  is alternated with typographic elements. Created in The Foundry, Molodkin’s production site in the south of France, new and exceptional canvases by the artist are exhibited for the very first time.