the exodus of painters from Moscow to Paris

How did Russian artists experience the war in Ukraine, the exile that it triggered or the ostracism that hit them in the months that followed? “They are all at our house! Or at least, they all passed through our place”answers Alexander Vishnevsky. This Franco-Russian, born in Kharkov in Ukraine, has lived in Paris for a long time and works in communications but works at the head of “L”, the association which opens the doors of the L Galerie in Ménilmontant and Studio Albatros to them. in Montreuil. “They arrived first, en masse, since the war, most often in France, i.e. nearly 70 artists with us since 2022. Artistic life itself has continued to be quite active in Moscow. There are exhibitions, artists sell. So those who left Russia did not do so because they were unable to work. They left for political reasons in the broad sense, from general disagreement to protest, or to avoid being mobilized and the danger of…