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From the history of clothing. XX century. Vatniki

1999
Materials: ceramics
40 см x 55 см
Category: sculpture
Item Number: 021131
500 000
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Vatnik is a variety of Russian warm cotton wool-padded jacket. When worn with valenki and an ushanka, the wearer can comfortably remain

warm in sub-zero temperatures for long periods. In the Soviet Union, the whole country wore this kind of jacket: soldiers, students, workers, prisoners, builders, drivers and others.

Leonid Shereshevsky (1948−2023) is a ceramist, graphic artist and sculptor whose persistent motif is the image of the body as a home, and his favorite subject is the city landscape and a person in a crowd. His characters (even sculptures) strive for flight, but are suppressed by the historical atmosphere.