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NOV '2015
«Superconduction» here and now
In the very center of Old Riga opposite of the Riga Cathedral a pop-up exhibition of modern technology art SUPERCONDUCTION was opened.
NOV '2015
Even true men break down in a desert
"I like the idea of creating objects that combine art and technology, movement and reaction experiments. It's something between actionism and sculpture. That is what I want to develop", Dmitry Volkov says in his interview to Interview Russia at the Burning Man Festival.
NOV '2015
How to survive at the Burning Man Festival and build communism in the desert
"Burning man is a social experiment showing whether a society built on other values can exist", Dmitry Volkov shares his feelings about the Burning Man Festival with the editor of "Afisha Gorod".
Collection
HEADS
Created in the 1990s, the piece “Heads” is characteristic of Neizvestny’s later work. Here one of the artist’s favourite subjects is presented in various ways: heads that are multiplied and layered on top of each other can also be seen in his most known pieces such as “The Tree of Life” and “The Mask of Sorrow”. Outlined with a thick black line, which gives the painting a stained-glass effect, they are reminiscent of Polyclet and Indian ritual masks; fragmented faces of varying sizes almost fill the entire canvas.
Painter: ERNST NEIZVESTNIY
THE LIMOUSINE
‘Limousine’ is part of ‘Refrain’, Irina Korina’s large project. It is an exhibiting space, where objects invoke a sense of ‘pathetic nonsense’. ‘Refrain’ exposes and captures mass culture constants, which are archetypes of the collective subconscious in large-scale dynamic objects. A limousine, along with other objects of luxury, are placed on top of a long birch tree pole. These are all dreams from the 1990s that we carried before ourselves like banners – limousines, the Courchevel ski resort, yachts, towers – all of these on top of birch trees.
Painter: IRINA KORINA
TATLIN AND BANDURA
During the 80s we were friends with Aleksei Georgievich Sotnikov, a wonderful sculptor and Tatlin's student. Aleksei Georgievich always spoke very fondly of his teacher, and claimed that Tatlin had a better voice than Chaliapin, but unfortunately no recordings remain. When he was young, Tatlin made his own bandura and sang in Paris, impersonating a blind bandura player. My portrait of Tatlin is drawn on an old kitchen board, reminding us of Tatlin’s wooden bandura, which was not preserved…
Painter: IRINA ZATULOVSKAYA
THE PORTER
From the very beginning of his artistic career, the artist was interested in the subject of combining the common with the majestic; he was attracted to the image of a holy fool. The Porter in this sense is a very characteristic piece: a figure that is both crumbling and sturdy. The main formal technique here is the combination of a single “solid” body and small, scattered, breaking off limbs. It seems that it is all about to collapse. It also seems that the protagonist could only maintain this fragile balance by possessing willpower and life energy.
Painter: IVAN GORSHKOV
FROM THE ALDER KING SERIES (DER ERLKÖNIG)
Goethe's Der Erlkönig, the Alder King is the basis of the plot for the series. Here the artist concentrates on the borderline states: object-subject, abstract-concrete, just like the boy who has visions in the state between life and death. The artist is interested in the moment when a tree stump “transforms” into the Alder King, the moment of the mirage appearing. These are sculptures-mirages, where the artist is trying to create an ephemeral spectacle. As to the technique, one can highlight a close union of the most unexpected materials: thoroughly welded iron and rotten tree trunks, filler, fabric, sticky tape, aerosol… All of these layer on top of each other, at times creating an illusion of a natural organic, catastrophic original. A cluster-like sculpture resembling some self-formed “Elemental” of the material world.
Painter: IVAN GORSHKOV
BIRTH OF RUSSIAN AVANT-GARDE
A kinetic art sculpture. At a single pull on the string, the Jack of diamonds-style bear will break into a solo on his Picasso guitar.
Painter: LEONID SOKOV
