Presenting a collection of embroideries by Sasha Braulov from the "Avant-garde Architecture" series. The works are available for viewing and purchase at the gallery or online.
Ksenia Malich:
"Sasha Braulov offers a completely new way of thinking about and perceiving Soviet architecture from the first post-revolutionary decades. He uses a naive technique, from the perspective of the conventional hierarchy of genres, and at the same time one of the oldest techniques of decorative and applied art. On a black background, on uneven fabric patches, with economical use of color and reduced details, the outlines of power stations and kiosks, stadiums and depots, houses of culture and hangars emerge stitch by stitch. Just as the ornament of ancient Russian embroidery contains in its simplified geometry the symbolism of a collective myth, so here the constructivist semi-ruin is transformed into a monumental sign."
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