Andrei Krasulin. Practice, Process, Cut

The Moscow Museum of Modern Art together with the pop/off/art gallery present Practice, Process, Cut, a large-scale exhibition by Andrei Krasulin. The exhibition, assembled from sculptural objects, paintings, and graphic works, showcases more than 200 works created between the 1960s and 2021. The exhibition at the MMOMA is retrospective in nature, but it is not arranged in chronological order, but is grouped in as a kind of installation. The curators have conceived the exhibition as a network or cross-section of individual narratives that overlap, intersect and at times rhyme. Constructed as an index or dictionary, it reveals the thematic anchors and tropes on which Krasulin’s artistic language is built.Andrei Krasulin is a unique figure for Russian contemporary art. He belongs to a narrow circle of authors of his generation whose works elude direct contextualization and localization within the Russian community. This is largely because the range of issues that have concerned and still concern him is much more related to themes that are associated with the Western European artistic tradition than with Russian contemporary art. The motifs of the Italian arte povera and the formal search, consonant with the modernist experiments of the beginning of the century, are much more obvious in his ascetic works. The artist himself, talking about his works and consistently avoiding any limiting labels, defines the nature of his occupation by the word practice.