Mukhomor
“Lenin was a mushroom”. Russian Post-Soviet History of Fly-Agaric
Amanita muscaria, Conceptualism, Mukhomor, Russian Civil War, Russian contemporary art, Sergei Kuryokhin, SiberiaBy: GIORGIO SAMORINI – The fly-agaric, with its characteristic red hat sprinkled with white spots, is the best known mushroom of Eurasian iconography, depicted countless times in children’s fairy tales and Christmas themes. Endowed with intoxicating properties and used for millennia in Siberia as a visionary shamanic source, for several centuries Western culture has also…