New Symbolism

Vitaly Komar

Nov 6 – Dec 23, 2009

Vitaly Komar

Landscape with Lenin's Tomb (detail), 2007-2009

Description

The Feldman Gallery will exhibit paintings by Vitaly Komar from his new series, New Symbolism. The paintings visualize inexplicable ties between unrelated images and concepts that refer to the history of the former Soviet Union, religious iconography, and ancient symbols. The paintings are both representational and abstract. New Symbolism is intended to suggest a movement to restore the sundered connection between art and certain historical and timeless myths and to point to a new direction for the avant-garde.