Erik Bulatov is a Russian-born artist who has lived and worked in Paris since 1991. Before his emigration to Europe he worked officially as an illustrator in Moscow and in the 1970s joined the Moscow Conceptualist group where he worked alongside Ilya Kabakov. Erik Bulatov is mainly associated with oil on canvas works and the transposition of large-scale words in Cyrillic, such as ‘freedom’ or ‘perestroika’, over realistically painted blue skies. He drew his inspiration from Russian avant-garde propaganda posters that contained large typographic...

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