Graphic materials for Oscar Rabine's exhibition at Erarta Museum
Oskar Rabin was one of the originators of non-conformism and one of the organisers of the “Lianozovo Group” which grew up around Yevgeny Kropivnitsky. Over a period of seven years (1958–1965), the former camp barracks in Lianozovo, where Oskar Rabin lived with his wife, Valentina Kropivnitskaya, acted as the centre of the progressive intelligentsia. Soviet material life and its dramatic absurdity was for many years the central theme of Rabin’s creativity. The artist’s favourite genres included landscape, still-life and interiors, continuing in the tradition of 1920’s European expressionism. Rabin uses a distortion of perspective, the principals of deformation and the destruction of large-scale relationships.
Oskar Rabin was an organiser of the dissident Bulldozer Exhibition, an unofficial art exhibition on a vacant lot in the Belyayevo urban forest by Moscow avant-garde artists on September 15, 1974. The exhibition was forcefully broken-up by a large police force that included bulldozers and water cannons.
Creating a logo of the exhibition
Firstly i made photos of Oscar Rabine's signatures:
Applied some filters it in Photoshop:
Imported pictures to Illustrator, traced and combined pictures:
Add some transparency and effects:
Pieces of the exhibition
Catalogue of the exhibition
Drop caps for russian and english articles, based on Oscar Rabine's signature:
Thak your for watching!
