"NEVSKY EXPRESS" Automatic translate
с 3 Сентября
по 16 ОктябряМузей АРТ4
Хлыновский тупик, д.4
Москва
The ART4 Museum opens an exhibition of St. Petersburg contemporary art. Curator Alexander Tsikarishvili, one of the founders of the art group "North-7", has united in his project artists, architects, art theorists and like-minded people to create a communal apartment of the future.
In his project, Alexander Tsikarishvili shows a separate St. Petersburg art community, whose activities are a manifestation of personal and creative freedom. They create myths around the current topics of our time, working with the national context and use collective practices, pushing the viewer to go beyond.
Taking on the duties of an “included-observer” in the spirit of Levi-Strauss, Alexander Tsikarishvili boldly mimics the object of research in his performances. This time he is not the only "Russian grandmother", the Moscow ones will come to the rescue, where they will be reunited in the ecstasy of the caretaker.
In one of the halls of the museum, we will find an anxious resident who gets to his communal apartment in a MAZ bus, killer flowers that attack animals with the good intention of a continuous natural cycle and, as an additional fetish of an absurdist game, a toy of a sadistic teddy bear, rendered harmless by a muzzle.
The impetus for creating a total installation is the concrete experience of the lost scenarios of the future, which the past era taught us to anticipate. Here, touching memories of the post-Soviet period or its ghosts, irony over the life of the era and the artist’s natural desire to transform what comes across on the path of chaotic movement forward are different here.
These implicit memories are surprisingly consonant with today’s time, they seem to anticipate a catastrophic development of the force that originated in times of upheaval and is waiting for an opportunity to be released.
text: Katya Kabalina.
Participants: Greht, Anna Andrzhievskaya, Pyotr Dyakov, Nadezhda Gorokhova, Dmitry Zheravov, Vadim Kondakov, Vadim Mikhailov, Alexey Mishenyov, Semyon Motolyanets, Ilya Ovsyannikov, Andrey Rudiev, Alexey Sakhnov, Vladimir Smirnov-Lilo, Alyona Tereshko, Valentin Trukhullina, Nestor Kharchenko, Liza Tsikarishvili, Alexander Tsikarishvili, Ivan Chemakin, Tatiana Chernomordova, Victor Yuliev.