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Alena Akhmadullina
Alena Akhmadullina
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In just one glance, an anthropologist attending an Alena Akhmadullina show could gather
synthetic information about the historical and cultural legacy of Russia in recent times.
In her collections, fragments of Russian iconography succeed one another as if they were
archeological vestiges of another time.
Russian constructivism, the Cossack and military look, and the aesthetic infl uence of the
painter Tamara de Lempicka are some of the infl uences at work in her creations, which
consist of a mosaic of aspects astutely reinterpreted and assimilated with pride and el-
egance.
It would seem that a young ...