Seduction. That’s what this is about. Seduction on a grand scale — more than 22 million sq km, in fact — fuelled by the fire of Russia’s October 1917 revolution.
Drawn from the vast collection of the graphic designer David King, who died last year, this fascinating, tightly curated show explores the visual culture that proliferated after that momentous event. Russian artists turned their talents to spreading the communist message to the mostly illiterate population of a country that spans nine time zones and houses more than 120 native languages. These posters, pamphlets, books, journals and photographs show how, drunk on political Kool-Aid, El Lissitzky, Nina Vatolina, Gustav Klutsis, Varvara Stepanova, Aleksandr Rodchenko and others turned propaganda into an art form.
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