{"id":28003,"date":"2016-02-03T11:25:19","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T10:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/?p=28003"},"modified":"2016-02-03T11:25:19","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T10:25:19","slug":"africa-and-the-soviet-union-a-cultural-relationship-in-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/africa-and-the-soviet-union-a-cultural-relationship-in-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa and the Soviet Union: A Cultural Relationship in Pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-28012 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Soviet-poster-from-1973-part-of-the-Wayland-Rudd-Archive.-Courtesy-of-Yevgeniy-Fiks.jpg\" alt=\"Soviet poster from 1973, part of the Wayland Rudd Archive. Courtesy of Yevgeniy Fiks\" width=\"464\" height=\"650\" \/> Soviet poster from 1973, part of the Wayland Rudd Archive. Courtesy of Yevgeniy Fiks<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRed Africa\u201d is the latest season at <a href=\"http:\/\/calvert22.org\/\">Calvert 22 Foundation<\/a>, and it presents the cultural relationship between Africa, the Soviet Union and related countries during the Cold War. Its main exhibition \u201cThings Fall Apart\u201d illustrates the loss of a\u00a0utopian perspective that followed the end of the Cold war and ultimately the collapse of the Soviet Union. Through a collection of interdisciplinary approaches in art and film by artists including Isaac Julien<em>,\u00a0<\/em>Yevgeniy Fiks, \u00c2ngela Ferreira and Jo Ractliffe, the show reflects on liberation struggles, communist street art, and Soviet press and propaganda.<\/p>\n<p>Scroll down for an abridged tour of the exhibition<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-28013 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Isaac-Julien-.jpg\" alt=\"Isaac Julien,\" width=\"716\" height=\"356\" \/> Isaac Julien, Fantome Creole Series (Cinema Cinema), 2005. Courtesy of Isaac Julien<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-28016 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Jo-Ractliffe1.jpg\" alt=\"Jo Ractliffe\" width=\"512\" height=\"650\" \/> Jo Ractliffe, Triptych I, mural portraits depicting Fidel Castro, Agostinho Neto and Leonid Brezhnev, painted on the wall of a house in Viriambundo, Angola, circa 1975 copyright Jo Ractliffe. Courtesy of Stevenson, Cape Town-Johannesburg<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-28015 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Jo-Ractliffed.jpg\" alt=\"Jo Ractliffed\" width=\"520\" height=\"650\" \/> Jo Ractliffe, Triptych II, mural portraits depicting Fidel Castro, Agostinho Neto and Leonid Brezhnev, painted on the wall of a house in Viriambundo, Angola, circa 1975 copyright Jo Ractliffe. Courtesy of Stevenson, Cape Town-Johannesburg<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-28014 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Jo-Ractliffe.jpg\" alt=\"Jo Ractliffe\" width=\"512\" height=\"650\" \/> Jo Ractliffe, Triptych II, mural portraits depicting Fidel Castro, Agostinho Neto and Leonid Brezhnev, painted on the wall of a house in Viriambundo, Angola, circa 1975 copyright Jo Ractliffe. Courtesy of Stevenson, Cape Town-Johannesburg<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-28019 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screen-shot-2016-02-02-at-15.09.431.png\" alt=\"Screen shot 2016-02-02 at 15.09.43\" width=\"649\" height=\"650\" \/> Isaac Julien, Places des Cineastes, 2005. Courtesy of Isaac Julien<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-28008 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Soviet-poster-from-1920-part-of-the-Wayland-Rudd-Archive.-Courtesy-of-Yevgeniy-Fiks.jpg\" alt=\"Soviet poster from 1920, part of the Wayland Rudd Archive. Courtesy of Yevgeniy Fiks\" width=\"495\" height=\"650\" \/> Soviet poster from 1920, part of the Wayland Rudd Archive. Courtesy of Yevgeniy Fiks<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-28010 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Soviet-poster-from-1933-part-of-the-Wayland-Rudd-Archive.-Courtesy-of-Yevgeniy-Fiks.jpg\" alt=\"Soviet poster from 1933, part of the Wayland Rudd Archive. Courtesy of Yevgeniy Fiks\" width=\"421\" height=\"650\" \/> Soviet poster from 1933, part of the Wayland Rudd Archive. Courtesy of Yevgeniy Fiks<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-28009 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Soviet-poster-from-1932-part-of-the-Wayland-Rudd-Archive.-Courtesy-of-Yevgeniy-Fiks.jpg\" alt=\"Soviet poster from 1932, part of the Wayland Rudd Archive. Courtesy of Yevgeniy Fiks\" width=\"464\" height=\"650\" \/> Soviet poster from 1932, part of the Wayland Rudd Archive. Courtesy of Yevgeniy Fiks<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-28011 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Soviet-poster-from-1967-part-of-the-Wayland-Rudd-Archive.-Courtesy-of-Yevgeniy-Fiks.jpg\" alt=\"Soviet poster from 1967, part of the Wayland Rudd Archive. Courtesy of Yevgeniy Fiks\" width=\"404\" height=\"650\" \/> Soviet poster from 1967, part of the Wayland Rudd Archive. Courtesy of Yevgeniy Fiks<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Things Fall Apart&#8221; is at <a href=\"http:\/\/calvert22.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Calvert 22<\/a> in London from 4 February until 3 April 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>More<\/strong>\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/showroom\/2016\/02\/this-exhibition-explores-dementia-through-sensations\/\" target=\"_blank\">This Exhibition Explores Dementia Through Sensations<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mehr: <a title=\"Meet Andrey Bogush, the Young Artist Commissioned by Prada\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/showroom\/2016\/01\/meet-andrey-bogush-the-young-artist-who-shot-a-prada-campaign\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Meet Andrey Bogush, the Young Artist Commissioned by Prada<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soviet poster from 1973, part of the Wayland Rudd Archive. 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