An exhibition entitled "Bubble. Comics in Modern Art" was recently opened in Gelman's Gallery. It deals with artistic methods of Russian comics.
There are many artists working in this field. However, the fact that there are enough comics to make a whole exhibition is surprising.
The exhibition features works by Georgy Litichevsky who presents his interpretations of heroes of the famous Hollywood blockbusters - Spider Dolphin and Spider Squid - and former emigrant Georgy Ostretsov who demonstrates brutal scenes from the life in America during the Prohibition times or from the life in Russia in the 1990s (gangsters, prostitutes and skirmishes).
However, not all artists follow the western and Japanese samples.
Vyacheslav Mizin and Alexander Shaburov use the motifs of Russian avant-garde. They presented two projects "Sex-Suprematism" [Suprematism is a trend of abstract art introduced by Kasimir Malevich in 1913 and based on combinations of simple geometric figures] with authors in the so-called suprematic armor speaking about their love for avant-gardists Malevich, Rodchenko and sex in English. The new project entitled "Suprematic Subbotnik" is even more amusing. The characters covering themselves with black rectangles and red angles are exchanging avant-gardist, absurd and sometimes idiotic phrases.
