Siberia
“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…
The Tree of Life Design. From Central Asia to Navajoland and Back (With a Mexican Detour) Part 1
By: SANDRA BUSATTA – The Tree of Life design is thought to be originated in Central Asia possibly from shamanic cultures, and can be seen as a favorite pattern in many carpets and rugs produced in a huge area, from Afghanistan to Eastern Europe. From the Middle East, together with other Christian and Moorish designs,…