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Erik Bulatov — Bezopasno (couple In The Country)
Erik Bulatov

Bezopasno (couple In The Country)

A tender scene rendered in colored pencil depicts a couple enjoying a tranquil moment in the countryside, captured with the delicate precision characteristic of Bulatov's draftsmanship. The work carries an underlying tension between the idyllic pastoral setting and the loaded irony suggested by the title *Bezopasno* ("Safe" or "It's Safe"), a hallmark of the Soviet Conceptualist tradition in which Bulatov operates. Soft, deliberate strokes of colored pencil on paper lend the composition an intimate, almost nostalgic quality while quietly probing the boundaries of freedom, safety, and ideological space.

Medium
colored pencil on paper

🔨 Auction Lot

Escape Artists 2.0: The Non-Conformists Online

September 26, 2019

Estimate: $10,000$15,000

Lot 1

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Erik Bulatov, Bezopasno (couple In The Country)

A tender scene rendered in colored pencil depicts a couple enjoying a tranquil moment in the countryside, captured with the delicate precision characteristic of Bulatov's draftsmanship. The work carries an underlying tension between the idyllic pastoral setting and the loaded irony suggested by the title *Bezopasno* ("Safe" or "It's Safe"), a hallmark of the Soviet Conceptualist tradition in which Bulatov operates. Soft, deliberate strokes of colored pencil on paper lend the composition an intimate, almost nostalgic quality while quietly probing the boundaries of freedom, safety, and ideological space.

Medium
colored pencil on paper
Seen at
Sotheby's, New York, London, Hong Kong, Paris

Related themes

Intimate, Soft, Country, Landscape, Melancholic, Colored Pencil, Couple, Figurative, Contemporary, Russian

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