BULATOV Eric

Winterthur | Switzerland

BULATOV Eric

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Russian painter and photorealist, one of the founders of the Sots-art.
Bulatov studied painting at the Surikov Art Institute in Moscow, graduating in 1958.
He began working as a children’s book illustrator with friend and collaborator, Oleg Vassiliev for which he won numerous awards.
In 1957 exhibitions in Moscow began and in 1973 abroad.
Through the Sretensky Boulevard Group, Bulatov became a prominent member of the loosely affiliated Moscow Conceptualists. This group, related ideologically rather than stylistically, has defined the “Moscow School” of contemporary Russian art as it is known today.
Bulatov became known due to the creative method of facing a poster text, chopped out of the context of Soviet reality, with a figurative (mostly landscape) component.
As a result, the artist manages extremely affordable way to illustrate the absurdity of Soviet propaganda reality.
Bulatov’s work is constantly represented on exhibitions around the world and Bulatov is one of the most expensive contemporary Russian artists.

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