[New York, NY]

Yevgeniy Fiks - Communist Tour of MoMA
November 20, 2010, 6:30 pm
at Postmasters Gallery

Communist Tour of MoMA(the off-site lecture) YEVGENIY FIKS is deeply involved in researching communist threads present in our contemporary environment. Addressing the repression of history of the Left, Fiks will present a one time lecture/performance “Communist Tour of MoMA (the off-site lecture)” at Postmasters on November 20th, at 6.30 pm. Yevgeniy will guide us through the revered temple of bourgeois art and paint the rooms pink. Fiks augments the MoMA tour-map with a layer revealing a historical aspect not usually represented on museum tours: the influence of Marxist ideology on progressive artists of the early twentieth century and their communist affiliations. Does it change our view of these works? Should it? The lecture is in conjunction with the exhibition: ENGINEERS OF THE SOUL October 23 - December 4, 2010 a show about communism and artists' relationship to power with: Chto Delat? (What is to be Done?)?, Yevgeniy Fiks, Rainer Ganahl, Lu Xiangyou, Yuri Shalamoff, and Wang Jianwei Postmasters Gallery located at 459 West 19th Street between 9 and 10 avenues is open Tuesday through Saturday 11 – 6 pm?. Please contact Magdalena Sawon or Paulina Bebecka with questions and image requests: postmasters@thing.net www.postmastersart.com