Lenin in transition: As a Russian artist transforms Lenin's image (Photo)

Almost every Russian city, large or small, has a designated site or monument on behalf of Russian Communist Revolution leader Vladimir Lenin. So why not bring his image to mass culture, moving him from the pantheon of sacred figures to the ranks of so-called house idols? That was the idea behind the works of a female artist from the Russian town of Novosibirsk ♫ Mayna Nasybulova.

After this vision, in 2015 a project entitled “Lenini for the soul” began and later created a sion duck with Lenin's head, which later entered the Vladey auction house in Moscow for a total of 4,200 euros, despite the fact that they normally sell 200-1500 euros, depending on their size. Not bad, right?

One possible reason for this interest was that Lenin's duck somehow seized the dominant situation, even becoming a symbol of the Russian opposition, reports “Rbth”, Periscopi broadcast. “She changed the meaning of my work as just an art object”, she remembers.

Since then it has continued to create Lenin's mini sculptures for the project, and is currently presenting a new exhibition, called “The crisis of Besimi” in Moscow.

The exhibition still contains Lenin, but the main difference between her latest and previous works is the source of inspiration.

“If I've previously copied the same bust of Lenin and I've put different costumes on it, I've recently used totemic images from different cultures, giving them a Lenin face,” Nadylolova told Inexorable Russia.

Nagylova is now mostly regarded as a Lenin artist, but she was not planning to be stopped here. It aims to conclude this chapter in its art of Lenin with actual exhibitions and pass on to other projects. /Periscopi/