Letter from the Island: Serp, Yufit, Kustov

8 Oct-22 Dec 2009

Overview

Cementing its reputation as one of London’s most innovative galleries, Orel Art UK breaks new ground with the first ever exhibition of Necrorealist art in Britain, one of most radical underground movements in recent Russian history. With major shows devoted to Necrorealism coming up at the State Russian Museum in St Petersburg and the Museum of Modern Art Moscow, Necrorealism is finally acknowledged as an artistic movement after years of debate and controversy. Letter from the Island brings together an astonishing and unsettling combination of paintings, installations and films, spanning from the 1980s to today, by the movement’s three great representatives: Sergei Serp, Evgeny Yufit, and Vladimir Kustov.