Andrey Medvedev. Girls and Dirigibles

Andrey Medvedev. Girls and Dirigibles

Andrey Medvedev. Girls and Dirigibles (painting, gummiarabic print).
Follow me, comrades aviators, float in the abyss, for I have established the semaphores of suprematism! K. Malevich. Suprematism 1919. XXth century is picking up. Petrograd, Leningrad, wars, revolutions. New names, titles and symbols. Poet Velimir Khlebnikov replaces French word ‘aviator’ with the Russian ‘flyer’ (letchik). Flyer Vasily Kamensky becomes a futurist flyer. Continue reading

Konstantin Zvezdochetov. Hello, Dear Boltansky!

Konstantin Zvezdochetov. Hello, Dear Boltansky!

Konstantin Zvezdochetov (Moscow).Hello, Dear Boltansky! (painting).
Co-organized with XL gallery (Moscow). AN ATTEMPT TO DECIPHER A FRIENDLY JOKE. In Paris there lives an artist called Boltansky. Long time ago his ancestors came to France from Odessa. He likes to exhibit black and white photo portraits with lamps in dark halls. After his exhibitions one feels sad and terrified. Continue reading

Olga Tobreluts. Tarquinius and Lucretia

Olga Tobreluts. Tarquinius and Lucretia

Olga Tobreluts. Tarquinius and Lucretia (video, media art).
Booklet. Curator – Ekaterina Andreeva. The ancient Roman story of Tarquinius and Lucretia, as related by Olga Tobreluts, shows desire and violence rather than love and devotion, thus catching back with classical tradition that took interplay of these two forces for the fundamental principle of cosmos and the law of nature. Continue reading

Virpi Vesanen-Laukkanen. Candy Princess

Virpi Vesanen-Laukkanen. Candy Princess

Virpi Vesanen-Laukkanen (Helsinki, Finland). Candy Princess (objects).
Catalogue. Co-organized with Consulate General of Finland in St. Petersburg, the Finnish Institute in St. Petersburg and Art Council of Finland. ”Art and stories are places where I can reconstruct my own story again and again to test if it holds true: is this story really mine, and do others share it with me?”* In my work the stories I have lived through and heard meet the materials produced by our culture. Continue reading

Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe. STARZ

Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe. STARZ

Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe. STARZ (photography).
Booklet. Co-organized with XL gallery (Moscow). Timur used to tell me: «Vyacheslav Yurievich, you’re our bacteriological weapon in Moscow. They like you there for your artful imitating of various women while you’re in fact a Fantomas». …With all my absolute trust in the ideals of neoacademism, I moved to Moscow in order to carry out the systematic work of destruction and to finally smash down the so called Moscow Conceptualism school. Continue reading

Marina Fedorova. One Fine Day

Marina Fedorova. One Fine Day

Marina Fedorova. One Fine Day (graphics, objects).
Curator – Ekaterina Andreeva. It is known for a long time, that artist’s masterpieces are selfportraing. Speed of glance, body movements, strength of touch are reflected in dinamic shape and graphic hand-writing. Marina Fedorova uses brush softly and confidently.This sharp professional skill is mixed with swinging, interrupting rhythm of movements and shape arrangement. Continue reading

Art Moscow’2005

Art Moscow’2005

Art Moscow’2005, the International Art Fair. Moscow. Russia. Catalogue. D137 Gallery presented: Georgy GURIANOV (draw on canvas), Yegor OSTROV (painting), Olga TOBRELUTS (print), SERGEYEV Sergey (painting, photo), Alexander STRELETS (interactive videoinstallation), Marina FEDOROVA (graphic). During the exhibition: at the 25th of May was presentetion of book “Timur Petrovich Novikov. Lecture” (D137 Gallery and New Academy of Fine Arts, 2003); at the 26th of May – presentetion of interactive videoinstallation “P.V.S.” by “New Bazis Group”. Continue reading