In Yekaterinburg caused controversy exhibition in honor of “capitalist romanticism”

On September 19, the exhibition “Romanticism Lives! Architecture of Yekaterinburg in the Era Between and Within Crises” opened in Yeltsin Center.

Photographer Ksenia Invers presented a project dedicated to the architecture of the 1990s and 2000s, known as “capitalist romanticism” or for short “capra”. The exhibition presents data on the construction of buildings, fragments of interviews with architects, media notes.

Some visitors to the exhibition were surprised by the selection of photographs, noting that a number of objects presented do not belong to the architecture of capitalist romanticism.

Among such accidental buildings, which are not caprom, were noted: business centers "Voznesensky" and "Summit"; shopping center "Carnival", "Alatyr", "Rainbow-Park"; restaurant "Harbin"; skyscraper "Vysotsky" and the tower "Iset"; the building of the administration of the Academic district; closed glass Drama Theater; updated "Pokrovsky Passage" and other objects.