Opening of Sergey Meytuv’s exhibition "Cabinet tragedy or aesthetics of abandoned rooms" Automatic translate

In the space of the “Open Stage” project, an unusual exhibition of the famous artist Sergei Meytuv was opened. The exhibition “Cabinet tragedy or aesthetics of abandoned rooms” is an attempt to bring the true spirit of the past into the apartment with the help of its famous installations. The curator was Georgy Nikich, art critic, member of the board of the Association of Art Critics.

“It seems to me that exhibitions like this revive the house and it has some kind of new life. It is amazing how the whole room turns out to be an installation that first seizes the space, then the apartment as a whole, and Sergei turns out to be the person to whom we all came to visit and he told us his strange stories. And all of them are partially ours, because all these fragments, connections, bones and photographs, sometimes intuitively, sometimes not quite consciously, develop not only in him, but also in our stories. With the help of these works we read ourselves ”, - shared his impressions of the exhibition George Nikich.

The opportunity to exhibit their paintings in this apartment - empty, abandoned, but so lively - is an enormous fortune for the artist. Not a single gallery could contain the amount of sadness that Matuw concluded in this series of works.

“The Cabinet is a small enclosed space borrowed for a short time by the Universe. This is the place where your law, your chaos, your order, where you are the master is your personal altar. The rays of other people’s curiosity cannot penetrate here, and here you can leave your things for a long time - you will return and find a cup in the same place, no one will brush your finger, will not lead you across the dusty table. The office for me has become a place in which the secret of the person is encoded in books and things, the secret of a person is my secret. Here you can relax from the world, hide, have some ideas. In short, this is something that I have never had in my life, ”said Sergey Meituv about his exposition.

All the works presented at the exhibition are the fates of people who, for one reason or another, did not manage to live their lives to the end. And the organizers offer their guests to touch those things that are not indifferent to the artist and sincerely interesting to him.

“We find ourselves in a world where not only man saves a thing, but also it his. This conservation of the subject not only gives us life, but also allows us to continue. At the same time, the same thing creates a theater, which is right here and next to each window, object, cabinet… all this is a scene and an action on it. I am very grateful to all those who took part in organizing this exhibition, this amazing space in terms of organics. I don’t understand where we are - in the exhibition hall, or in the museum, or in the apartment. Who lives here with us today is a deep bow, ”said Vitaly Patsyukov, curator of the exhibition halls of the State Center for Contemporary Art, as described.

Sergey Meytuv’s exhibition, “Cabinet tragedy or aesthetics of abandoned rooms,” runs until April 27, 2014 in the space of the Open Stage project at 20 Povarskaya Street.

History reference:

The building on 20 Povarskaya was built in 1914 by order of the well-known metropolitan lawyer Joseph Kalmeer. The project of the apartment building was completed by architect Valentin Dubovskaya, who was considered one of the prominent representatives of the Moscow school of architecture of the early twentieth century. The interior decoration of apartments, the area of ​​which varies from 237 to 318 m2, was carried out with the direct participation of the artist Ignatius Nivinsky. Joseph Kalmeer imagined the house as the “House of Art". After the revolution, the apartments of wealthy residents were given as communal apartments.

In Soviet times, the house on Povarskaya was a famous place. Interesting people often gathered here on the top floor in the apartment of Boris Messerer and Bella Akhmadulina: Vladimir Vysotsky, Marina Vladi, Fazil Iskander, Vasily Aksenov, Venedikt Erofeev and others. It was these meetings that triggered the idea of ​​creating a Samizdat almanac called the Metropol. In the 90s, the theater was occupied by the Anatoly Vasiliev Theater, and later by the Directorate of the Open Stage Project.

“Open Stage” is a project created to support young directors who are actively engaged in the search for a new theater language.

With the support of the Open Stage and the Government of Moscow, such distinguished directors as Mindaugas Karbauskis, Evgeni Kamenkovich, Yuri Kantomirov, Dmitry Krymov, Anatoly Ledukhovsky, Karen Nersesyan, Dmitry Petrun, Nikolai Roshchin, Viktor Ryzhakov, Kirill Serebrennikov, Vladimir Skvortsov, Alexander Ogarev, Harold Strelkov, Boris Yukhananov, Igor Yatsko and others.

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