Ian Collins and Peter Waldron before their talks

In October 2017, to mark the centenary of the Russian Revolution, the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
will stage two major exhibitions contrasting art, life and culture in Russia before and after the Revolution.

Proletarians of All Countries Get United!
by El Lisitsky

The first exhibition, Royal Fabergé, explores the glittering saga of the world’s greatest artist-jewellers during the decades preceding the First World War. The second, Radical Russia, shows how avantgarde
artists – who had scandalised conservative society with outrageous and subversive painting,
poetry and theatre – came with revolution to briefly become the State’s officially approved culture.
Ultimately both high points of human artistry were to be laid low by horror and terror.

In their two talks, the guest curators, Ian Collins (Royal Fabergé) and Prof Peter Waldron (Radical Russia), gave us a brilliant insight and a privileged preview into these two major exhibitions at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, UEA.

Wednesday 11th October 2017 at 7.30 p.m.
Curve Auditorium, The Forum

The exhibition is open from 14 October 2017 – 11 February 2018
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich