Krimsky Val, 10, halls # 80-81

The retrospective exhibition is dedicated to the 80 anniversary of one of the most significant artist of the soviet unofficial art. In the western countries he was called “Solgenizin in painting”. Oscar Rabin (born in 1928) is a brilliant member of “Leonozovs’ school”, the circle of Russian poets and painters. Members of this society were: Evgeny Kropivnitsky, Nikolai Vechmotov, Genrih Sapgir, Vladimir Nemuhin, Vsevolod Nekrasov and the other classical authors of nonconformism. The house of Oscar Rabin and Valentina Kropivnitskaya in Leanozovo at the end of 1950’s became a center of independence, resisted to the official culture.  There were performed different exhibitions, poetical evenings, artistic discussions. The live of Moscow suburbs with its “low” level of soviet material culture became a subject of the works of Rabin for a long time. In 1974 he initiated “Bulldozer” exhibition and exhibition in Izmailovo. After deprivation of the soviet citizenship in 1978 he lives in immigration in Paris. But from the beginning of 1990’s he is permanent figure in Russian art context.