We all happens. Suddenly we look at patterns, recurrences us happen, symbolic, numerical, and with which, over time, seem to run into constantly. I guess that's the definition of a trend: People diverse in different places, they reinvent the obsolete, to rediscover the forgotten. And the result is that association of ideas that sometimes leads us the chance not think so. Of these strange synchronicities that I visited, one of them is the feeling that Soviet art, Russian or Chinese, is back in fashion. Once stripped of its connotations is the pure aesthetic enjoyment for those who want to dispose of it. History cynically forgiving. And without an iron curtain and the Warsaw Pact behind him, and a dunk in China to capitalism, it is possible unbiased and carefree enjoyment, and that the truth is that thanks. art know that rewarded soviet realism, more or less broadly. We have already said here . In China, as always very much his own, reinterpreting the Decalogue to create an artistic movement of a bad taste wonderful, in which workers, soldiers and peasants, with carp cohabitants, children and dogs diving logs. Many times in naive but also unrest in utopian visions, skies streaked by rockets and satellites, where the Great Helmsman bring assured. Thousand years not be sufficient enough to recommend the gallery Chinese propaganda posters collected by Stefan Landsberger, or if you prefer paper, similar book. And as I say that the random play puns in Papel Continuo meeting a few days ago the Chinese posters gallery public health and hygiene .
Here you might ask, had not been this good man to tell him again soviet? Yes. The findings continue. Exposure is possible without much effort, to advertising campaigns that use pallets environments and communists in their spots. Basically, blacks, white and gray mixed with the appropriate dose of deep red typical of Hammer . As this ad for Smirnoff , with its clever game of Russian dolls, or that other gel fixer, set back in communist China electropunk pace, and seems more like a low-budget remake of last sequences Battle Royale. And even Israeli a spot! where the Tsar of all Russias dances with his nemesis Lenin to announce not really know why. Probably very much in Stalin who was the pirra music.
I open a matrioshka ... In case you need more evidence, the avant-garde Russian is on the crest of the wave. And it is no more than a glimpse of covers of the singles and albums to find Franz Ferdinand thinly disguised homage, or direct copies, or Rodchenko Lissitzky, with their geometries and plain colors, designs industrial to service any revolutionary ideal. And finally as icing (thank Eunice the list), the constructivism has permeated both popular culture Natasha Kampusch, after prolonged and bizarre kidnapping, grants her first and highly anticipated interview with the Austrian magazine News and appears to us transfigured in a front-page transcript blond Lilya Brik КНИГИ ready to scream!
Please, take me out. 
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