MADRID.- A comprehensive retrospective of the leading figure of soviet “Socialist Realism”, seen for the first time in spain. This comprehensive retrospective entitled Aleksander Deineka: A Proletarian Avant-Garde will be on display from 7 October 2011 to 15 January 2012 at the Fundación Juan March in Madrid. It opens with the early career of this artist, a key figure within so-called Soviet “Socialist Realism”, and covers the avant-garde movements of the early decades of the 20th century to conclude with the realism and figuration of the 1930s and 1940s. Deineka’s scenes of large crowds and factories are powerful metaphors of the ideals that became the driving force behind one of the world powers that dominated much of the 20th century. They express the Soviet utopia of the total, revolutionary transformation of social and material reality through the dialectic of capital and labour. In 1985, when the Soviet regi