Dexter Dalwood
Gorbachev's Winter Retreat
2000
Oil on Canvas
198 x 236cm |
Gorbachev's Winter Retreat is a modest structure, straddled between the split landscape of old and new Russia. Quoting Edvard Munch (for that Eastern European feel), Dexter Dalwood offers the ousted premier a grim prospect of a lonely, uneventful future as just another forgotten historical figure with nothing but memories, banished to a life of rural idyll and inconsequence. |