A boardwalk fence at The Palais Royal Park, installed in connection with the renovation of the Opera House, was chosen to accommodate the unauthorized exhibition.
[2] This event in Odesa took place seven years before the famous Bulldozer Exhibition[3] in Moscow, it is considered the beginning of the public activity of Soviet nonconformism.
There was a precedent in the history of Russian futurism: in 1919, the futurist Anton Sorokin[4] held three "Fence Exhibitions" in Omsk.
"Naturally, the way to the official exhibition halls for authors professing 'alien' forms of painting and sculpture was closed.
Attention was focused on the improvement of pure art, in which content and form are an object of aesthetic pleasure and in no way political commentary.