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Nothing of the kind
Museum of Moscow 21 september 2013 — 11 october 2013 Curator: Vladimir Logutov Participants: Oleg Elagin Aleksandra Galkina Ivars Gravlejs Ilya Grishaev Petr Kiryusha Alan Khatagty Kirill Makarov Ivan Novikov Sergey Popov Vladimir Potapov Sergey Prokofyev Andrey Rezhet Sergey Sapozhnikov Vladimir Seleznev Sveta Shuvaeva Andrey Syaylev David Ter-Oganyan Irina Tsykhanskaya Aleksandr Verevkin Alissa Yoffe Vlad Yurashko ZIP art group (Konstantin Chekmarev, Eldar Ganeev, Evgeni Rimkevich, Stepan Subbotin, Vassili Subbotin) Оpening: September, 21 at 19:00 About project: Artists of different generations take part in this project, but the odds are in favour of the younger ones. There is nothing expectable here for the Moscow audience or Biennial guests: even the most advanced viewers will encounter unknown names. These are artists from Samara, Krasnodar, Prague, Kharkiv, Saint-Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and Moscow. What the participants’ works have in common is not a shared topical principle, not a reaction to an external political, social, gender or other situation. The curator perseveres in avoiding today’s straightforward version of mimesis which equates visual arts to journalism. Prevailing at the show will be fairly traditional genres, such as painting, graphics, sculpture, collage. What is essential is the way of displaying them: all the works, even the painted canvases, appear as elements of series or spatial installations. The arranging principle is neither similarity/copying social practices, nor expanding art’s external boundaries; on the contrary, what is being explored is the possibility of plastically separating the internal space of an artistic statement, the morphology that defines the dimensions of the author’s project. The inwards-oriented search for creative space is characteristic for today’s artistic situation in which the boundaries with social life that the artists had spent so many years making incursions on have suddenly been opened, which although also deprived the artist’s statement of it’s artistic aspect. This could be compared to the fall of the Soviet iron curtain, when going abroad became an everyday event and the gravity center shifted inside the country. The fact that these new names are going to be presented together on a show in the Museum of Moscow which is living through a renewal fits perfectly with Moscow’s contemporary cultural role of an enormous cultural stadium which gathers viewers from all over the world while giving space to representatives of diverse regions and autonomies. The fact that these new names are going to be presented together on a show in the Museum of Moscow which is living through a renewal fits perfectly with Moscow’s contemporary cultural role of an enormous cultural stadium which gathers viewers from all over the world while giving space to representatives of diverse regions and autonomies.Museum of Moscow, in it’s turn, has been developing as a historical museum of the city. Now part of the exhibition projects are devoted to the most recent and urgent events in Moscow. This year it becomes Biennale platform of Contemporary Art. |