ART

Southern California will get a taste of Soviet vanguard art March 25, when the Dorothy Goldeen Gallery in Santa Monica opens a six-week show of works by Igor Kopystiansky and Svetlana Kopystianskaya. The couple were darlings of Sotheby’s ground-breaking auction last July in Moscow, where rock star Elton John bought one work by each of the two artists for a total of $151,360. In the Goldeen show, Kopystianski will exhibit works from two series: “Restored Paintings,” oils on canvas that are manipulated to appear old and worn, and “Interiors,” three-dimensional constructions made of painted canvases. Kopystianskaya will exhibit oil and tempera paintings covered with narratives in Cyrillic script.