The Lesser Known Romantic Side of Soviet Art

Tifentale, Alise. “The Lesser Known Romantic Side of Soviet Art.” In Good Morning USSR (exh. cat.), Seoul: NAMA Gallery, mM Art Center, 2021.

The essay is published in Korean and English. The exhibition “Good Morning USSR” took place at the NAMA Gallery, mM Art Center, Seoul, June 30 - July 30, 2021.

Download and read my essay “The Lesser Known Romantic Side of Soviet Art” as a pdf here (in Korean and English) or view it in the images below:

View some sample pages from the catalogue below:

Learn more about the exhibition from the catalogue’s foreword and preface below:

Is This the Right Time for Landscape Photography?

The essay was written in January and February 2020, just before the COVID-19 outbreak paralyzed our lives, and published in August 2020, just after the most severe restrictions had been lifted and a biennale could take place in Riga, Latvia. Although written just a few months earlier, the essay today seems to belong to some distant time and place, to a world that, likely, will remain only in our memories.

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