My pal Allan's latest exhibition is “Ode to Food” at Gallery PROUN in Moscow.

"Grow the Cattle Production"

Regular readers will recall that over the years, I've repeatedly doffed my ushanka in the general direction of Allan Gamborg. It's hard to believe 27 years have passed since I first met Allan, Kim Andersen and Kim Wiesener during the rambunctious summer of '87. These three Danes of the apocalypse have been artfully weaving in and out of my travel narratives ever since, as during this famous escapade (in Allan's own words):

For example, I still think of the evening in that Belgium beer place (2000?), where all got complete rat-assed and the party just dissolved in utter chaos.

Ah, those were the daze.

Allan has lived in Moscow for at least 15 years, and somewhere around his third or fourth career in the workaday world, he assumed yet another identity: Purveyor and advocate of Soviet-era art and artists. You can use the handy Blogger search feature with "Gamborg," and view previous postings at NAC. The format's usually the same, and it's always worth a few minutes to peruse the art. You need not be a Commie to enjoy Allan's web site, Masters of Soviet Art.

This latest exhibition is near and dear to my own heart: "Ode to Food." Read the brief introduction, and view some of the works on display here.

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Dear Friends,

I am happy to invite you to the art exhibition “Ode to Food” at Gallery PROUN – Vinzavod, 1/7 4-y Siromyatnichesky per., Moscow.

Wednesday December 2, at 19.00

ODE to FOOD

Food is an every ingredient in our lives. Literally and metaphorically. The Exhibition show how food was depicted in Soviet art from the 1930s-1980s, as well as in contemporary Russian art.

From the collection of the Gamborg Gallery there will be app. 20 works exhibited - by Vera Livanova, Tatyana Livanova, Veniamin Briskin, Galina Shubina, Natalia Gippius, Amina Karamyan

See some of the here on our website: http://www.digitalsovietart.com/thematic-shows/140-soviet-food-markets-restaurants

I hope to see you there at the opening. If not, the exhibition is open until February 15.