METAPHYSICS IN ABSTRACT AND FIGURATIVE ART: EDUARD STEINBERG AND VLADIMIR YANKILEVSKY

Russian Art from the 1960s to the 2010s: A Lecture Series by Sasha Obukhova Sasha Obukhova will discuss the lives and work of Russian artists in the broad historical context. With an encyclopedic knowledge of Russian contemporary art, art historian and Garage Archive curator Sasha Obukhova is one of the main experts in her field. Her expertise formed through the study of art history and her immediate immersion in the art scene, as well as thanks to her meticulous work as an archivist who has collected information on art events for over 30 years. Her broad perspective and attention to detail add monographic depth to every artist’s portrait, presenting them in a political, aesthetic, and institutional context. Each lecture will include a demonstration of archive materials and artworks, with the series forming the prototype for a book on Russian contemporary art. Eduard Steinberg (1937–2012) was taught to draw by his father Arkady Steinberg in Tarusa. In 1961, he moved to Moscow and in 1977 took part in the Biennale of Dissent in Venice. From 1988, he lived between Paris, Moscow, and Tarusa. Vladimir Yankilevsky (1938–2018) studied at Moscow Secondary Art School from 1950 to 1956 and in the Art Department of Moscow Printing Institute from 1957 to 1962. In 1980, he became a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR. In 1990, he moved to New York and from 1992 he lived and worked in Paris. Sasha Obukhova (b. 1967, Moscow) is an art historian. She graduated from Moscow State University. In 1993 she studied at the Central European University (Prague). She has worked at the Institute of Contemporary Art (Moscow), The State Tretyakov Gallery, and the National Center for Contemporary Arts. In 2000, she was a member of the working group that curated the permanent exhibition Art of the Second Half of the Twentieth Century at the Tretyakov Gallery. In 2004, she was a founding member and director of Art Projects Foundation, where she established the Archive of Russian Contemporary Art. She lives and works in Moscow.