[New York, NY]

Yevgeniy Fiks at Winkleman Gallery
February 15, 2013, 6:00 pm
at Winkleman Gallery

GALLERY OPENING for  Yevgeniy Fiks at Winkleman Gallery: "Homosexuality Is Stalin's Atom Bomb to Destroy America" and BOOK PARTY for Yevgeniy Fiks's MOSCOW (UDP, 2013)   EXHIBITION DATES:  February 15 - March 16, 2013 "Winkleman Gallery is very pleased to present Homosexuality Is Stalin's Atom Bomb to Destroy America, our third solo exhibition by New York-based artist Yevgeniy Fiks. Taking its title from a 1953 article by the Cold Warrior and pundit Arthur Guy Mathews, this exhibition explores the historical and ideological links between anti-Communism and homophobia in the United States, as well as the intersections between Communism and sexual identity as it played out during the 20th century. Works in the exhibition range from dry factuality to humorous and farcical, and posit the 20th century queerness as the shared "Other" of the Communism-Capitalism dichotomy, while tracing the uneasy yet tangible historical links between the early 20th century Communist activism and the gay rights movement of the second half of the century." More info here