Red Gate / Against the Current-2022 Automatic translate

On July 15, 2022, the Seventh Interregional Academic Exhibition "Red Gates/Against the Current-2022" will open at the Moscow House of Artists.

The exhibition will feature more than 140 works selected in the course of a competitive selection on the topics announced this year. The project was organized by the Foundation for Assistance to the Development of Visual Art "Vizart", the Creative Union of Artists of Russia (TSHR) and the Volga Branch of the Russian Academy of Arts (RAH) with the support of the Russian Ministry of Culture. The project was implemented using a grant provided by the NGO "Russian Fund of Culture" within the framework of the federal project "Creative People" of the national project "Culture".

The Red Gate/Against the Current 2022 project will be open to visitors in the space of the Moscow House of Artists until July 23, 2022, after which the traveling exhibition will go along the Saratov-Tolyatti-Saransk-Kazan route.

Concept

The project is based on the methodology of the 17th-century European educator Jan Amos Comenius, who created the encyclopedic work The World of Sensual Things in Pictures, in which he decomposed the entire surrounding world into 150 objects, classified these objects and their constituent elements in a peculiar way.

The working group of the academic project, based on the work of Comenius and consulting with various experts, classified the world surrounding modern man, conditionally dividing his model into 100 objects intended for artistic research.

Since 2014, every two years, 10 out of 100 themes-objects are determined by lot, which become the reason for the creation of works of art.

This year, works are considered on the following 10 topical topics from the Comenius List: prediction, testament and message, typography, chance play, death, stage, tricks and mirages, holiday, bad habits, apocalypse.

The Creative Union of Russian Artists sets itself the task of displaying the diversity of the natural world and human relations through the works of artists of the early 21st century, exploring the art process, the changes that have taken place, and assessing the role of art in the ongoing socio-political processes.

“The project is designed for 20 years, its main result should be an analytical study of the artistic situation in the domestic fine arts, the publication of 10 volumes of the art encyclopedia “Red Gates/Against the Current,” notes Konstantin Khudyakov.

According to Konstantin Khudyakov, the project will be completed in 2032, with the completion of the artistic reading of all 100 themes-objects from the Comenius List. This year it is planned to publish the 5th volume of the art encyclopedia with reproductions of the participants’ works and analytical articles.

Painters

The traveling exhibition selected works by artists from Moscow and the Moscow region, St. Petersburg, Stavropol, Rostov-on-Don, Izhevsk, Cheboksary, Ufa, Saratov, Saransk, Kazan.

The traveling exposition will be complemented by the works of the project participants from Saratov, Togliatti, Samara, Saransk, Kazan as they move along the announced route.

Participating in the project: Zurab Tsereteli, Konstantin Khudyakov, Viktor Kalinin, Viktor Glukhov, Evgeny Romashko, Konstantin Petrov, Sergei Gavrilyachenko, Viktor Rusanov, Oleg Leonov, Ivan Kolesnikov, Sergei Denisov, Andrey Dubov, Igor Pestov, Evgeny Semenov, Vasily Shulzhenko, Alexander Zhernoklyuev, Irik Musin, Vasil Khannanov, and many others.

Project figures

Over the entire period of the project, more than 2,000 artists became its participants, 132 artists from Moscow and Russian regions became laureates of nominal awards, about 20,000 applications were sent to the competition, of which about 3,500 works were selected for participation in the project. 26 exhibitions were held in Moscow and the cities of the Volga region (Saratov, Kazan, Tolyatti, Saransk, Ufa, Cheboksary) in the leading art museums of the country. The audience of each project is more than 10,000 people.

The exhibition and research project, thanks to its idea, route and art content, in previous years has become a dynamic educational and educational platform aimed both at raising the professional level of young artists of the regions and at expanding the cultural base of the population.

Organizers: Foundation for Assistance to the Development of Visual Arts "Vizart", Creative Union of Artists of Russia and the Volga Branch of the Russian Academy of Arts with the support of the Ministry of Culture of Russia

Project partners: Research Institute of Theory and History of Fine Arts of the Russian Academy of Arts, Moscow Union of Artists, Saratov State Art Museum named after A.N. S. D. Erzya, State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan.

Project leader: Konstantin Khudyakov - Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Arts, President of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia, Academician and member of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Arts, Chairman of the Volga Branch of the Russian Academy of Arts.

Project curator: Svetlana Kuznetsova - First Deputy Chairman of the Volga Region Branch of the Russian Academy of Arts, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Arts, Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation.

The project was implemented using a grant provided by the NGO "Russian Fund of Culture" within the framework of the federal project "Creative People" of the national project "Culture".