Vagrich bakhchanyan biography of mahatma
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Vagrich Bakhchanyan, Alexander Genis, Yuri He was simultaneously a born archaist and a natural innovator—in his life Mahatma Gandhi successfully took up....
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
Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
17 October 2015 – 6 March 2016
by NATASHA KURCHANOVA
Anyone interested in Russian art and its firm grounding in history, as well as its seemingly unending search for utopia, should visit the first US retrospective of Soviet dissident artist Vagrich Bakhchanyan (1938-2009), currently on view at the Zimmerli Art Museum in New Jersey.
Bakhchanyan was trained in the art studio of a workers’ club in Kharkov in the late 50s and early 60s by artists including Vasily Ermilov, Alexander Kosarev and Alexei Shcheglov, who were keeping alive the tradition of the Russian avant garde during the time of the postwar stagnation.
From them, Bakhchanyan learned the importance of worki
