Soviet Metro Stations Advertising Made to order in Montreal

Made to order in Montreal

Handy Hands make a great mantle piece

Salvaged old growth cedar

1983-1998 is the first archival project by Nikki Igol's Public Image Library

Soviet Metro Stations Advertising Made to order in MontrealFor us, said Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in his memoirs, there was something supernatural about the Metro. Visiting any of the dozen or so Metro networks built across the Soviet Union between the 1930s and 1980s, it is easy to see why. Rather than the straightforward systems of London, Paris or New York, these subways were used as a propaganda artworka fusion of sculpture, architecture and art that combined Byzantine, medieval, baroque and