III Biennale of ARTMOSPHERE Automatic translate

The exhibition of street wave artists will present the work of 40 Russian and foreign authors created during the art residence in Moscow.

The main project of the ARTMOSSPHERA Biennale will be shown from August 31 to October 14 at the Great Wine Storage Center of the Winery Factory of Contemporary Art and will open with the support of the General Partner of the QIWI Biennale. Special projects will occupy the Red Shop and the street space of the cultural cluster. All the work of the main project will be created by the participants directly in Moscow, in the format of an art residence.

ARTMOSSPHERE - the first and only Russian Biennale, which introduces the general public to the most prominent representatives of street art from around the world. The Biennale will again be held in the format of a collective exhibition of street wave artists who entered the field of modern art from graffiti medium and other practices of working with urban space. Many of them went through the experience of unauthorized creative activity in the city, introducing characteristic themes, techniques and methods into the exhibition space, and inheriting the specific visuality of the street.

The exposition was formed during an open creative competition, artists’ applications were evaluated by an international jury, which included representatives of the street art association Brooklyn Street Art Jaime Rojo and Stephen P. Harrington, curator of the Museum of Street Art in Amsterdam Peter Ernst Coolen, researcher and author of street art programming for the Los Angeles Museum of Modern Art (MOCCA LA) Ethel Seno, caterer for street projects at Tate Modern Cedar Lewisohn, curator of the Montana Gallery (Barcelona) and Ada Gallery (Paris) -Ibiza) Anna Dimitrova, and urator Palazhchenko Nicholas, who has spearheaded the creation of the Center for Contemporary Art Winery.

Sofya Trotsenko, President of the Vinzavod Foundation for the Support of Contemporary Art: “The Biennale is of interest to us, first of all, as a project that reinterprets contemporary art in relation to subculture and street culture in particular.”

Among the participants of the main project there are both new names and well-known on the international stage: a regular guest of the Biennale Marta Cooper is a legendary photojournalist who captured the birth of graffiti in the New York subway, representatives of the Scandinavian graffiti scene Finsta (Sweden) and EGS (Finland), American artist FAITH XLVII; Englishman James Jessop; and Polish graffiti artist Zbiok. Among the Russian participants are Alexei Luka, Anatoly Akue, Ivan Naynti, Vladimir Abikh and others already known on the art scene, as well as the Zlyye art group from Yekaterinburg and Eldar Ganeev from the Krasnodar art group ZIP.

The theme of the main project and the ARMOSMOSPHERE Biennale 2018 sounds like OFFLINE, it is dictated by fatigue from the growing information flow in a world where physical reality takes on the status of the event periphery - communication, cognition, sex, war, and even art are primarily realized online. The organizers suggested that the artists formulate a worthy answer to the challenges of the digital world, relying on the DNA of a free and independent street culture, and restore the balance between real and virtual.

The theme of the Biennale, which was originally not typical for street art, alien to digital technologies and gravitating to graphic arts, put artists in a situation of searching for atypical approaches and techniques for them, giving the exposition the character of research and experiment. In accordance with the type of artistic reaction to the theme of the Biennale, the exposition is divided into several sections-categories: ONLINE, POST-INTERNET and OFFLINE.

Some of the projects will be located in the street space of the cultural cluster: the Spanish artist Spy spreads a lawn in the courtyard of the Winery for relaxation 16 meters in diameter. Evgeni Muluk from St. Petersburg will create a picturesque mural at the junction of abstraction and figurative, and the New York-based king of street bombing Faust - a new colorful layer of the WALL project, which will become the Wall of Conscience for 5 months, depicting a huge calligraphic tag. The artist Dagnini will lay out the solitaire computer game right on the green grid of scaffolding that covers one of the walls of the center of modern art, scaling the computer screen in space.

For the first time, the research project "Street Art in Russia from the 1980s to 2010s" will be presented at the ARTMOSSPHERA Biennale in the Red Shop, its curators are artist Dmitry Aske and co-founder of partizaning.org portal, lecturer at the Russian State Humanitarian University Anton Polsky. The exhibition will cover 4 decades of Russian graffiti, street art and street wave art. A unique archive of photographs, videos, sketches and other artifacts will tell about the stages of development, processes and trends in street art from the mid-1980s to the present. The project will be the first such precedent in Russia. Materials will later be included in the print edition - Encyclopedia of Russian Street Art.

As part of the special program of the ARTMOSSPHER Biennale, events will be held such as the first solo museum exhibition of American artist Shepard Fairy in MMOMA on Gogolevsky Boulevard 10, the annual graffiti jam “30 facets of the movement” in Gorky Park and the StreetDoc festival of documentary cinema on street art. Also within the framework of the project, three colorful murals from the stars of world street art - Shepard Fairy and artists from Madrid Tritman (3TTMAN) and Okuda (Okuda) will appear in the city, this will be announced separately. The program and participants of the Biennale can be found on the website 2018. artmossphere.ru.

MORE ABOUT SECTIONS OF THE MAIN PROJECT:

The ONLINE section thematically combines the work of authors who cannot imagine life apart from digital technologies: “offline” is impossible for them without disconnecting from the Web - virtual reality becomes a reference point, existing in a dichotomy with real life. That is why the lawn in the installation of the art group “Evil” sprouts into the exposition with optical fiber, and not with green sprouts. The authors analyze the negative impact of digital technology on humans, criticizing the impossibility of a genuine dialogue on the Web and total immersion in the virtual world with a complete rejection of reality. UK artist Bill Posters is exploring the world’s first network marketing campaign, which 25 years later looks like an ominous prophecy of today: people’s decisions are manipulated using information technology. Showing the atmosphere of teenagers’ empty rooms through a webcam, the Argentinean duo Doma Collective notes a monstrous upward trend in search queries for sex videos involving minors. Graffiti artist from Finland EGS builds a fingerprint map of the world using a universal digital identifier of our time - a fingerprint.

A number of artists work in the aesthetics of POST-INTERNET, transferring the characteristic “digital” visuality to reality, deliberately embodying it in traditional media such as painting or sculpture. So, the Argentine artist Pablo Harymbat with the help of a tool that acts in physical reality as a Photoshop brush will create a painting and sculpture - a giant tag, in the volume depicting a brush stroke of the graphic editor. Graffiti writer Misha WERT159 builds an installation from a pile of materialized elements of digital reality, giving them physical weight. Using the example of stereo-vario photographs taken at a long shutter speed, Vladimir Abikh demonstrates that every day he has to read the human eye when changing pictures on a smartphone - a stream of shredded and lost information elements.

The largest category by the number of participants is OFFLINE, by artists who completely exclude the use of digital technologies in their works: as opposed to virtuality, they are inspired by real city landscapes and natural materials, retrograde communication methods and life to the Internet, as well as mediums that have virtual reality has no influence. So, Lucy McLauchlan, will create a site-specific painting in Moscow, taking on the canvas prints of various city textures. Alexandra Kuznetsova is preparing a study of urban space in which she will talk about the “folds” of the city - places that are not used in any way and live their own lives: by looking into the gaps of the fence-installation, you can see these spaces in the pictures and sketches. Darion Shabbash creates multi-layered panel sculptures from plastic, paying attention to the problem of pollution of the planet and the recycling of garbage. The artist organized the collection of used household plastic: she will grind and melt the bottles of products into flat sheets, from which she will cut out details for her art objects. Eldar Ganeyev, a participant in the art group of spare parts, reconstructs the familiar courtyard in the exposition, with playing rubber bands, rides and a newspaper stand, recalling the “analog” childhood of the 90s.

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