26/5/2017 WINGS OF PRAYER OR DESPAIR? AMBIGUOUS RUSSIA OVERSHADOWS VENICE BIENNALE. BY SIMON HEWITT | Russian Art + Culture SUBSCRIBE (/) (http://twitter.com/rusartculture) (https://www.facebook.com/Rus (http://instagram.com/rusar EVENTS,...
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26/5/2017 WINGS OF PRAYER OR DESPAIR? AMBIGUOUS RUSSIA OVERSHADOWS VENICE BIENNALE. BY SIMON HEWITT | Russian Art + Culture SUBSCRIBE (/) (http://twitter.com/rusartculture) (https://www.facebook.com/Rus (http://instagram.com/rusar EVENTS, EXHIBITIONS, REVIEWS WINGS OF PRAYER OR DESPAIR? AMBIGUOUS RUSSIA OVERSHADOWS VENICE BIENNALE. BY SIMON HEWITT BY Simon Hewitt (http://www.russianartandculture.com/authors/simonhewitt/) POSTED 19/05/2017 3:25 PM VIVA ARTE VIVA! is the slogan of this year’s Venice Biennale. Sounds upbeat, tutti frutti and full of joie de vivre. The Russian Pavilion is anything but. In a coup of breathtaking audacity even by his own flamboyant standards, Pavilion Curator Semyon Mikhailovsky, Rector of the St Petersburg Academy, exploits the 1917 Revolution to slam Putinism with the most powerful show seen in the Giardini for years. Alexei Shchusev’s two-storey Russian Pavilion, topped by a double-headed eagle, opened in April 1914 – one of the last Tsari
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