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4 Results2024
The Vancouver Art Gallery Presents a Timely Exhibition Revisiting Experimental Art From the Former Eastern Bloc
ArtDaily 11/12/2024The Vancouver Art Gallery will present Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s鈥�1980s, a major survey that brings together over 100 artists from six Central Eastern European nations...
Artists in the Eastern bloc found new ways of making art during the Cold War period, responding to different living conditions and confronting varying degrees of control exerted by state authorities.
Walking through this exhibition of some 250 works by nearly a hundred artists working in the former Eastern Bloc, I was forced at one point to turn back and re-enter it through the exit so that a mess left by a 鈥渟ervice鈥� dog could be cleaned up.
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