Slavs and Tatars, founded in 2006, is an art collective whose installations, lecture-performances, sculptures and publications contemplate otherwise little-known affinities, syncretic ideas, belief systems and rituals among peoples of the Caucasus, Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Concentrations began in 1981 as part of the DMA’s commitment to showing the work of living artists, while preserving the excitement of the work.
This installation is the latest in the Museum’s Concentrations series of project-based solo exhibitions by international emerging and under-represented artists. Concentrations 57: Slavs and Tatars, opening July 18 (Late Night Friday) and on view through December 14, 2014, will also include three additional works of sculpture from their current thematic series, Long Legged Linguistics. Dallas Museum of Art First to Present the Complete Love Letters Carpet Seriesĭallas, TX-July 17, 2014- The art collective known as Slavs and Tatars will for the first time present the complete series of Love Letters carpets-10 in all-together with a new audio piece produced specifically for their exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Art.
