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The Scotland-Russia Institute

Soviet Grand Designs

4 August – 22 September 2012

Evgeni Kazmin, Mosaic designs for the Circus Pavilion, Sochi, 1969 (detail).

 

An exhibition featuring Evgeni Kazmin's drawings for monumental mosaic projects and Vladimir Burov's 1960’s paintings of the industrial city of Magnitogorsk, once dubbed ‘Steeltown USSR’.

 

John Barkes has curated an exhibition of fifty works, illustrating the talent and originality of highly motivated artists working in hard, turbulent times.

 

Tue—Fri, 11—4pm

Sat, 1.30—4pm (except Sat 4 & 11 Aug, 11—1.30pm)

Free admission

 

Scotland-Russia Institute

9 South College Street, EH8 9AA

0131 668 3635

www.scotlandrussiaforum.org/exhibitions