Erik Bulatov – Glory to the CPSU, Paris Gallery

5 October 2017 · Paris

Erik Bulatov's 'Glory to the CPSU' (СЛАВА КПСС) fills the wall of a Paris museum gallery — massive red Cyrillic letterforms cut against a photorealistic blue sky. The scale is the argument: propaganda slogans and open sky occupy the same surface, the same size, pressing the same claim. Sots Art at its most direct, stripping Soviet graphic language down to its own logic and holding it there to be looked at.