"Pleasant Gallery are proud to announce the first UK solo exhibition by Russian artist and designer, Gosha Rubchinskiy. The exhibition is their inaugural show, and will run from 17 September through 13 November 2010.
Gosha Rubchinskiy will show a series of large-scale works, supplemented by montage, giving a strong insight into his outlook.
We will host an opening for the exhibition on Thursday 16th September, 7pm-9pm."
Pleasant Gallery 30 D Great Sutton Street EC1 London
Fashion designer Gosha Rubchinskiy is an indicator of how much Russian youth culture has evolved of late. But mixing influences from the streets of Moscow and the surrounding subcultures, Rubchinskiy creates more than fashion. Going further than a label, his work is a totality, where orthodoxy meets black metal, sports and skateboard culture; a "gesamtkunstwerk" involving casting photography, design and artistic direction. Rubchinskiy is one of the emerging multitasking creative talents of Europe, but he is still is an exception in his Russian homeland. The label express the unrelayed voice of a youth that has re-appropriated Western culture in a very exclusive and peculiar Russian way. German art and fashion cult magazine 032c invited Gosha Rubchinskiy to show a sort of retrospective of his work in their Berlin gallery, and even though the designer doesn't like the idea of a 'retrospective', it is quite the case. Dazed Digital talked to Gosha Rubchinskiy about his teenage years in Russia, his vision of fashion and some possible future developments.
Dazed Digital: Let's start with your past - can you tell us how you created your fashion label?
Gosha Rubchinskiy: I wanted to work in in fashion since I was like 14 or 15.
You should already know about Gosha Rubchinskiy, russian menswear designer who was introduced here a couple of weeks ago, this time Rubchinskiy returns with his spring summer collection and goes on the same path with "Evil Empire" mixing the different russian youth subculture into menswear collection where sportswear meets black metal studded gear, skinheads blends into rave party outfit modeled by russian street kids that "might be dangerous but worth the risk".