Lenin with Gold Dots (2020)Mixed-media sculpture
by Oleksandr Balbyshev

This contemporary artwork is made of the found original soviet plaster bust of Lenin decorated with oil paint, beads, and resin.
As a result of this artistic gesture, the artist erases the propaganda and ideological meanings of the image, at the same time endowing it with decorative qualities.
However, with all the fun of this manipulation, the sculpture acquires new meanings, an antinomical combination of play and seriousness, prompting the viewer to go beyond the accepted paradigm.

In 2015 the Ukrainian government banned all symbols and images associated with the USSR. But numerous oil portraits, sculptures, monuments, and other images of Lenin began to be removed from public places decades before the "decommunization laws". What happened to the hundreds of thousands portraits of former Soviet leader? Many of them are already destroyed.

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Materials used:

Oil, Beads, and Resin on Plaster Bust

Details:

• Mixed-media sculpture on Other
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 19 x 29 x 16.5cm (unframed)
• Ready to hang
• Signed on the back
• Style: Urban and Pop
• Subject: People and portraits

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