“The theme of stereotypes was continued by Oleg Tistol in his painting series National Geography (1998–2004) where he combined the local and the foreign, the authentic and the borrowed, the ethnic and the global problematic. The sources of this series were the old illustrated magazines with ethnographic photos of different tribes. National exoticism was viewed here as the contemporary strategy of selling local brands in the global market.” (B. Groys in G. Sklyarenko, Oleg Tistol’s Khudfond: Several Words about the Beauty of Stereotypes, Kiev, 2009)
2012 140 x 120 cm (55 1/8 x 47 1/4 in) Signed [in Cyrilic], dated and numbered ‘O. Tistol 2012 #17’ lower left; further signed, titled [in Cyrilic] and dated ‘O. Tistol 2012 “Stranger #17”’ on the reverse.