🗓️May 14 – June 6, 2021
🕒 Tue & Thu: 12:00–20:00
Wed, Fri, Sat: 14:00–21:00
Sun: 12:00–20:00
🎟Admission fee: 300 ₽ (100 ₽ reduced)
MUSEUM OF 20th–21st CENTURY ART OF ST PETERSBURG (MISP)
📍103 Griboyedov Canal Embankment, St Petersburg 190068 Russia
◆Exhibition “Golden Section 60×100” Ivan Sotnikov’s 60th Anniversary Retrospective◆
The exhibition Golden Section. 60×100 marked what would have been the 60th birthday of artist Ivan Sotnikov (1961–2015), a central figure of the Leningrad underground art scene.
The show brought together around 100 works spanning various media — fabric-based objects, plywood sculptures, ceramics, drawings, and animation. Sotnikov’s distinct visual language bridges avant-garde impulses of 1980s Leningrad, folk and primitive art, irony, and theatrical stylization. His fantastical motifs — “leggy” machines, skulls, fish, fir trees, and mausoleums — reflect both personal mythologies and cultural codes.
Sotnikov was a founding member of the “Zero Movement”, part of the “New Artists” collective, an active participant in Sergei Kuryokhin’s Pop Mechanics, a street exhibition pioneer, and a passionate folk art collector. His influence continues to resonate in post-Soviet contemporary art.
The exhibition featured works from private collections and the artist’s family holdings, including pieces from Marina Sotnikova and Yuri von Stackelberg.
