Label Text:
Vassiliev writes his introduction to the print series over a brown-tinted landscape. The scene seems to reference paintings of the so-called Wanderers (Peredvizhniki, in Russian). Founded in 1863, the Wanderers were an association of artists who organized traveling exhibitions and focused on motifs that they considered typically Russian, including landscapes and rural life. In mentioning them, Vassiliev once more refers to Chekhov’s time and anchors the series in pre-revolutionary culture. The two black frames mark the work’s different, yet intertwined, layers: the historical view and the artist’s perspective.
BJ 2013
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