For the first time in Italy, exclusively for the University Ca 'Foscari of Venice, 110 works of the Collection Alexander Reznikov come for the exhibition MOCKBA UNDERGROUND - Abstract 1960, at the Exhibition Spaces at Ca'Foscari.
Only with the death of Stalin (1953), the advent of the so-called 'thaw' and the new political Nikita Khrushchev in the USSR, an art shy unofficial came out. Although the andegraund presents itself as a phenomenon as artistic as literary in it's primary role, however, it fell like this to the artists.
The andegraund artistic peeps at the end of Stalinism and develops during the 'rebirth' marked by the thaw chruščëviano, where coexist - and interact in small part - two different cultures: the official one, the other illegal. As in the samizdat literature, even in the visual arts was delineating a similar situation and worthy of great attention.