Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe. Dostoevsky in Baden-Baden, Woman as Is(photography, video).
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Stanislav Makarov at the Moscow Collectors Club.
Moscow. Russia

Sergeyev Sergey. Bull’s Whisper (painting, graphics).
Booklet. Curator – Andrey Khlobistin. The oeuvre of Sergeyev Sergey embraces the cutting edge of modern art. Masterly creating the effects of different (including fantastic) materials, textures and even sounds, his works hover on the whimsical verge of conservatism and experimentation, traditionalism and exoticism, expressive materiality and ephemerality. Continue reading →

Art Moscow’2004, the International Art Fair. Moscow. Russia.
Catalogue Georgy Gurianov, Stanislav Makarov, Sergeyev Sergey, Olga Tobreluts

Stanislav Makarov. Angels (gummiarabic print).
Curator – Ekaterina Andreeva. Stanislav Makarov is a radical contemporary artist deeply rooted in the system of art. He discerns the subordinate and the main thing, the definition and the definable, in the phrase “contemporary artist”. The definition “contemporary” is directly related to the artist’s archaicising technique and the stylistics of his photo-watercolour landscapes (gum arabic). Continue reading →

Nina Vitanova-Vlakhova. Brain Extension (multimedia images)

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Georgy Gurianov. Sailors and Heaven (canvas drawings, photography).
Curator – Andrey Khlobistin. “Women in ports try to touch a sailor who has just returned from a voyage; this is supposed to bring them good luck”. Popular superstition. “When he came in and saw an hussar of the line recounting his military exploits (Prince Andrew could not endure that sort of man), he gave Boris a pleasant smile, frowned as Continue reading →

Elena Figurina (painting).
The name of Elena Figurina is well known to the cognoscenti of Soviet contemporary painting. Her works, so strikingly forthright in their exposition of the most intimate aspects of man’s psyche and so uncompromising in form, gained the favour of the public from the very start of Figurina’s contributions to the exhibitions of the Association of Experimental Visual Arts. Continue reading →

Aidan Salakhova (Moscow). Habibi (painting, graphics).
Aidan Salakhova has long been recognised as a defender of beauty and a beautiful woman. While both claims are fully justified, they still do not fully explain the essence of her art. Fifteen years ago, wanting to differ from everybody else, Salakhova produced brutal pictures of phalluses and vaginas. Continue reading →