Alexey Gintovt. Moscow-center Automatic translate

Urban projections of the urban environment of future streets and squares of Moscow were created especially for the exhibition. In the new mythological, ideal capital, the eastern towers reaching into the sky, inspired by the architectural fairy tales of Yakov Chernikhov, are adjacent to familiar Moscow buildings; quotations from the Palace of Soviets, as Alexey Shchusev saw it, create a harmonious, almost musical structure of the geometry of the red-gold city.

The artist was always interested in the era of great achievements, the aesthetics of the great Russian style. Gintovt calls his style: "imperial avant-garde", and defines the genre as "new Russian classicism".

His authorial style is not easy to define from an art critic’s point of view. The Great Russian style is not decorative ethnographic for him, but rather a geopolitical scale of images born from the depths of the Russian Eurasian tradition.

In most of his works, the artist uses a rare material, gold leaf – sheets of various metals that imitate gold leaf.

The project curator, art critic Lyubov Agafonova: “We were lucky to be born in an amazing country — Russia, which we are both proud of and simply happy about. Our personal and corporate projects are diverse and multi-component, and we are incredibly interested in living in Moscow, measuring the milestones and tasks of today with the whirlwind of events and layers from centuries past. In the context of overcoming intellectual chaos, collecting the Russian world, we are trying to find the threads of coherence of fantastic diversity and multi-layeredness… Characteristic of the great Russian artists and architects of the past, the energies and meanings of whose creations are subject to an equal participant and continuer of civilizational processes — the artist-philosopher Alexei Gintovt.”

Gintovt himself sets the goals of his work as “The victory of centripetal processes over centrifugal ones.”

Alexey Gintovt was born in 1965 in Moscow. He graduated from the Moscow College of Architecture and Civil Engineering (Department of Residential and Public Construction). In 1985–1988, he studied at the Moscow Architectural Institute, Faculty of Urban Development. He was a member of the groups Free Academy, Permafrost Laboratory, FSB (Front of Quiet Welfare), and the New Russian Classicism movement.

In 1991, he won first place at the First International Video Art Festival (Leningrad). In 1992–1993, he was an artist for the interpretative art magazine Mesto Pechati. In 2002–2003, he was a stylist for the Eurasia party, and since 2003, for the International Eurasian Movement. In 2008, he won the Kandinsky Prize in the Best Project of the Year category.