Craft and Folk Art Museum
5814 Wilshire Blvd
323.937.4230
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Opens Saturday Jan 28 (6–9pm)
Jan 28 – May 6
Daily
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$5 - 7
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“Deconstructing Perestroika is CAFAM's exploration, in poster form, of the cultural and political events that led to the collapse of the former USSR. One work compares Soviet Communism to the biblical Tower of Babel. Another depicts a sickle, a traditional symbol of Communism, dripping with blood, a commentary on the millions who starved to death in the 1932-1933 famine. Deconstructing Perestroika is a chance to view 30 agitprop-influenced works rarely seen by Americans.”
Karin E. Baker, Flavorpill
In collaboration with The Wende Museum and Archive of the Cold War, CAFAM will present Deconstructing Perestroika, the first major exhibition in the United States of hand-painted Soviet-era political posters that were inspired by a new government policy of transparency in the former Soviet Union. Organized to mark the 20th anniversary of the former Soviet Union's demise in December 1991, this exhibition highlights some of the key political and cultural shifts that defined the era and ultimately led to the fall of the former superpower, namely Mikhail Gorbachev's transformative policies of Glasnost and Perestroika in the late-1980s and early-1990s. These posters illustrates the tradition of hand-painted poster design, known in Russian as avtorskii plakat, which is an outgrowth of traditional Soviet agitprop. The exhibition is curated by Dr. Ljiljana Grubisic, Director of Collections and Public Programs at The Wende Museum.
