Special Mounted Troops
2002
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
2002
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Special Mounted Troops is a 2002 by Olga Florenskaya, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
Olga Florenskaya’s print *Special Mounted Troops* comes from her 2002 project *Russian Trophy*. It’s part of a satirical series about military museums. The prints mock fortress thinking and fear of outsiders. The project uses fake flags to poke at old rivals. Names like “North-Western Enemy” hint at real countries without saying them outright. Check out the Victoria and Albert Museum for this print.
A landscape-format print depicts a horse bearing a cannon on its back against a red background, accompanied by text in Russian and English above and below the image. The work is numbered, signed, and dated in pencil at the lower right, with a blind stamp from the Hand Print Workshop.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Olga Florenskaya’s prints from 2002 turn Cold War fears into bold, graphic shapes.
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