Label Text:
This print is a negative rendering of image No. 1 in the series. Once more, the scene summarizes the misery that Vassiliev experienced in his contemporary Soviet culture. It features the artist's self-portrait in front of a completely dilapidated nineteenth-century Moscow manor. The house saw better times, which realist landscape painter Vasili Polenov captured in his painting Grandmother's Garden (1878). In prints No. 1 and No. 30, Vassiliev references both the building itself, in its lost and present conditions, and Polenov's painting, to represent Russia's pre-revolutionary culture as well as that culture's abolishment during the Soviet era.
BJ, 2013
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