Nearly five years ago Julia Gelman moved to Chicago from Moscow, where she and her former husband Marat ran Gelman (Guelman) Gallery, one of Russia’s first galleries devoted to contemporary art. In 2000 Marat published “Cultural Machine, Optimistic Manifesto.” By 2012, political and economic conditions cut short the gallery’s 22 year experiment as a hub for artists and intellectuals. I recently talked with Julia about Caution! Freedom–Contemporary Art from Russia, the exhibition she curated at One after 909 gallery with Stano Grezdo, the gallery’s founder and director.
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