May 9th, 2008 by E-Blog
Lost vanguard Found - Synthesis of Architecture and Art in Russia (1915-1935) is the title of an exhibition on Russia, organised by the State Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki in cooperation with the Schusev State Museum of Architecture in Moscow and the Museum of Photography in Thessaloniki.
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May 8th, 2008 by E-Blog
May 8th, 2008 by E-Blog
The soviet machine stopped working in the end of its century, but not all of a sudden. For many decades it was ‘functioning’ just by inertia, without fuel and without a future. When communism had clearly been proven a parody of justice, to which no one believed, doubtable even as a production machine, with nihilism always increasing in society, the party started to search for various (even to the degree of being incompatible with each other) substitutions. The soviet mechanical way of life had to be beautified desperately by previous machines of meaning, even if they had already failed, those of nationalism and panslavism. As Koestler notes (cf. Koestler, The Yogi and the Commissar), from 1941 Panslavic conventions started to be organised each year in Moscow with representatives of Poland, the Czech republic, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Mavrovounio, etc. The speeches made at these conferences would sound reactionist even at 1910! The Home of the Labourers became again the Leader of Slavs… We must remember these things, if we want to understand the end of the soviet experiment. However, my interest now is especially in nationalism.
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