material evidence: a folder with sketches
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exhibition
gulag history museum
april 2018
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“material evidence” project including “a little book” and “a folder with sketches” exhibitions that I designed was honored with the grand prix of an internetional “intermuseum-2018” festival
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graphic design
Dasha Vinokurova
architecture
Maria Plynskaya
scientific consultant
Tatiana Polyanskaya
curator
Anna Redkina
handmade toys
Innokenty Sharkov
Daria Chapkovskaya
production
Nikolay Sysoyev
the gulag history museum launched a series of one-piece exhibitions featuring material evidence of the stalin’s repression epoch. “a folder with sketches” exhibition is dedicated to the folder with the sketches of childrens’ toys, designed by the soviet artist boris kreitser during his imprisonment in a gulag labour camp
boris kreitser was an influental book illustrator, architect and graphic designer. his close encounters with foreign colleagues and neighbourship with japanese specialists made the artist a subject of close attention of nkvd. in 1938 he barely avoided shooting on fabricated charges and was imprisoned to labour camp as a “german and japanese spy”. during his imprisonment in komy republic kreitser designed a series of toys commisioned by nkvd
boris kreitser’s books, sketches, illustrations and photos from the personal archive were displayed at the exhibition dedicated to his memory
boris kreitser was an influental book illustrator, architect and graphic designer. his close encounters with foreign colleagues and neighbourship with japanese specialists made the artist a subject of close attention of nkvd. in 1938 he barely avoided shooting on fabricated charges and was imprisoned to labour camp as a “german and japanese spy”. during his imprisonment in komy republic kreitser designed a series of toys commisioned by nkvd
boris kreitser’s books, sketches, illustrations and photos from the personal archive were displayed at the exhibition dedicated to his memory
