Cabinet present From Russia With Doubt, an exhibition co-organized with the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, on view 18 November–29 November 2013.
In 2010, Adam Lerner, the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, did something unheard of in the museum world: he mounted a large exhibition of paintings without first knowing whether they were real or fake. Painted in the Suprematist and Constructivist styles of early twentieth-century Russian avant-garde masters, the 181 canvases had been acquired by amateur collectors Ron and Roger Pollard from a mysterious seller in Germany. The man, who they met on eBay, claimed that the paintings had been found in an abandoned shipping container held in German customs since the 1980s.
From Russia with Doubt showcases a selection of paintings from the Pollards’ collection; the opening will feature a discussion with Lerner about the genesis of the exhibition and about the place and value of doubt—of not knowing—within the modern cultural institution.
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