Scandals have never been in short supply in the world of Russian avant-garde art, but the last few years have seen a bumper crop, with the controversial arrest of a respected Russian curator on fraud…
With invented provenances, unreliable certificates of authenticity, and "rediscovered" works by artists who are lost to history, forgers are flooding galleries and auction houses with Russian…
The art of the Russian avant-garde is among the most anti-sensual art there ever was. It's almost all in the head, and both its glory and its strangeness have much to do with this.