Vitaly Komar Vitaly Komar's "Allegories of Justice"
art agenda May 17, 2015
"Komar’s recent exhibition at New York’s Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, “Allegories of Justice,” which includes a few earlier works by the former team, raises a number of questions. What happens when an artist duo splits up, as Komar & Melamid did? What happens when the context of any artist’s production—in this case conceptual sociopolitical work satirically skewering both Soviet ideology and American consumerism—vanishes into thin air, as the Soviet system did, leaving them and other Soviet artists without a framework? And how do they continue to make art in the context of the internal void of a suddenly collapsed culture? Also, in the case of Komar & Melamid—who left Moscow in 1977 and moved to New York the next year—how was their work affected by the external disruptions of emigration to a diametrically opposite society?"
Related News & Press
Ronald Feldman Gallery has been at the frontier of contemporary art since 1971. The gallery is located in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City and exhibits performance, photography, new media, film, painting, drawing and sculpture.
Sign up to receive email updates
31 Mercer Street
New York, NY 10013
Office Hours:
Monday - Friday:
10:00am - 6:00pm
Exhibition Viewing Hours:
Tuesday - Thursday
1:00pm - 5:00pm
Copyright © 2025 Ronald Feldman Gallery