Alexei Buldakov is a young artist , living in Moscow. The piece from Articulate collection "SEXLISSITSY" somehow reflects the question about the legacy of Russian avan-garde and its dream of utopia. As Jackie Wullschlager wrote in the article "Bittersweet moon (The work of contemporary Russian artists reflects a country caught between dreams and nostalgia)" - 6, December 2008: "In "XXX Malevich" and "SEXLISSITSKY", Alexei Buldakov takes fragments of the same darting suprematist shapes, lines, wedges, and makes of them vivid cartoon images that mutate into limbs and body parts to perform in a primal cartoon to the soundtrack of grunting, panting lovers: a parody of the high-minded radicalism of Malevich and El Lissitsy, as well as of today's pornography and art-market pieties. This is on show in Russian Dreams, an exhibition of post-perestroika artists opened (+) at the Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach. (+) A 21-century ambivalence towards lost utopias, a melancholy and sense of disconnection characterise all the Russian works in Miami". (Financial Times).

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