Alexander Dashevsky: “When everything is in such horror, it invigorates me” // Direct speech
11 months ago
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About the St. Petersburg school of painting Petersburg is a large unsorted archive, and what St. Petersburg thinks about itself now is not very relevant to what actually happened. For example, inscribing the Arefiev circle into the murky French tradition of a landscape within walking distance removes some important level of understanding of what was happening then and is systematically repeated in St. Petersburg: climbing baths, cemeteries – I have a couple of skulls that Arefiev and Shagin dug up – Still, there were partly performative practices.
