Event Venue
105 NY-110, Melville, NY 11747
“The Second October Revolution”
105 NY-110, Melville, NY 11747
August 14, 11 am – September 8, 7 pm
Tuesday – Saturday, 11 am – 7 pm, free admission
Please write to [email protected] or call (347) 662 1456
The artist is available for interviews
Russian American Cultural Center (RACC) presents “The Second October Revolution”, an exhibition of collages by Dmitry Borshch. Last October we marked the centennial of 1917 revolutions in Russia. This year we mark the “silver” anniversary of what is sometimes called Black October – the constitutional crisis that befell Russians in 1993. The artist calls it The Second October Revolution. “25 years ago, while staying with relatives in Moscow, I observed what was a genuine possibility of restoration of the Soviet Union, meaning the imposition of Soviet rule and governance on all the former republics of USSR. I heard megaphone speeches by parliamentarians at their White House, promising exactly this and lamenting the Union’s dissolution. That was on September 26; on October 4 I was able to hear from New Arbat (then Kalinin Prospekt) tanks shelling the parliament building. My show is a dramatization of that and other actions ordered by Boris Yeltsin which effectively ended attempts to restore the Union. Blackened stories of the White House I saw on October 8, a week before leaving Moscow, announced this end,” says Borshch. The show will premiere “off-Broadway” in Melville, New York and travel to Saint Petersburg State University for an exhibition about the crisis in October.
Dr. Regina Khidekel curated “The Second October Revolution”, which is supported by funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and Materials for the Arts.
Russian American Cultural Center (520 East 76th Street, Suite 7E New York, NY 10021) aims to provide permanent cultural representation to more than 700,000 Russian-speaking residents of New York. It was founded in 1998 by Dr. Regina Khidekel and earned its 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status in 1999. RACC has adopted and broadened the strategy of organizations like No Longer Empty (https://www.nolongerempty.org/) which invigorate neighborhoods by mounting exhibitions in their unutilized or temporarily underutilized spaces. Visitors coalesce around a space where art may never have been exhibited before.
Regina Khidekel received her PhD from St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts, became the director of that city’s Diaghilev Art Center in 1990, and in 1998 the founding director of the Russian American Cultural Center in New York. She is the author of “It’s the Real Thing” (1999, University of Minnesota Press), and has contributed essays to the following publications: “Lyubov Popova” (1994), “Lazar Khidekel: Suprematism and Architecture” (1995), “Sterligov Group: Paintings from Russia” (1995), “Russian Constructivist Roots: Present Concerns” (1997), “Forbidden Art” (1998), “Lev Meshberg” (1999), “Tamar Hirschl” (2000), “In Malevich’s Circle” (2000), “A Life of Colors” (2001), “Surviving Suprematism” (2004), “Family Album. Artists from St. Petersburg” (2006), “Anna Rochegova” (2008), “Homage to Diaghilev’s Enduring Legacy” (2009), “Trajectory of Suprematism” (2011), “Floating Worlds and Future Cities: Lazar Khidekel, Suprematism and Russian Avant-garde” (2013), “Building Drawings and Drawing Buildings” (2014), “Lazar Khidekel and Suprematism” (2014). She has lectured at many universities, and curated many exhibitions.
Dmitry Borshch was born in Dnepropetrovsk, studied in Moscow, today lives in New York. His drawings and sculptures have been exhibited at the National Arts Club (New York), Brecht Forum (New York), Exit Art (New York), CUNY Graduate Center (New York), Salmagundi Club (New York), ISE Cultural Foundation (New York), Williamsburg Art and Historical Center (New York), Triangle Arts Association (New York), Parish Art Museum (Southampton), International Human Rights Law Institute of DePaul University (Chicago), the State Russian Museum (Saint Petersburg), Central Exhibition Hall “Manege” (Saint Petersburg), Frieze Art Fair (London).
https://www.russianamericanculture.com/galleries/emerging-artists/dmitry-borshch/
The exhibition schedule:
RACC satellite space, New York
105 NY-110, Melville, NY 11747
August 14 – September 8, 2018
Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg
Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет
199178, Санкт-Петербург, Васильевский остров, 10 линия, д. 49
October 4 – October 26, 2018
About the image:
“President Yeltsin” 2017, ink on paper and collage, 18 x 14 inches
