Georgy Litichevsky

Georgy Litichevsky (born 1956), a young "underground"
artist from Moscow, was also able to engage in
performance art in public places from 1986, thanks to the
new "openness"(glasnost). He was discovered by western
exhibition organizers and invited to international art
projects.

A picture published in October 1988 in the German
magazine "art", which is now in the Tretyakov Gallery,
depicts a smiling personification of the city of Moscow. The
Metro underground railway represents the intestines in this
living organism. In the meantime this "classical" Georgy
Litichevsky idea has been expanded by the artist in his
current "Transcontinental Underground" project to a
worldwide network of subway tubes. If you get on in
Moscow, you can get out again in Paris, New York or Tokyo
– maybe even in Nuremberg – or perhaps Kabul, Tehran,
Riyadh, Aleppo…

The Studio Gallery p91 displays a small selection of the
very large-format paintings, which were painted as early
as 2014 for the exhibition hall of the Kunstschranne in
Weißenburg (cf. the virtual exhibition tour under
www.braunsberg.info).

These were supplemented by a portrait homage to the
Austrian-British philosopher Karl Popper, whose book "The
Open Society and Its Enemies" became the Bible of the
Perestroika intellectuals.

The silkscreen "Transcontinental Underground" edited for
p91 demonstrates that Georgy Litichevsky never lost his
“Perestroika Optimism“: HIS SMILE GOES ROUND THE
WORLD!