Pop over Exhibition of Konstantin Benkovich. 6+ Automatic translate

Erarta Museum of Modern Art opens the first solo exhibition of Konstantin Benkovich in Russia.

A young author from St. Petersburg, a graduate of the Stieglitz Academy, Konstantin Benkovich spent a long time looking for himself and answers to fundamental questions for a thinking artist: what is creativity and what can I add to this? As a result, the main motive in art for Konstantin Benkovich was the lattice: the artist passes information flows through himself and finds a frozen, absolute structure in the drawing. Such a structure, embodied in the steel lines of reinforcement, can become a “sacred” cultural image, as well as a news event that lasts no longer than a week. For example, the Pac-Man street object arose at the time of the catastrophic collapse of the ruble, the mortgage crisis and the protests of foreign currency borrowers. This happened recently, but only the person whom it really affected can accurately name the year.

Benkovich’s lattices are peculiar traps of perception, in which the image loses its annoying colorful clothes. A mysterious metaphor here becomes an entity, the knowledge of which can be touched not with the help of emotions, but with something else, which makes a rare lucky person admire the beauty of an algebraic equation. However, the artist’s creativity and protest are not without. So, Benkovich took part in “Art Riot” - an exhibition dedicated to the centenary of the Russian revolution, in the London gallery Saatchi. In his works, he offers the viewer fairly obvious associations: the lattice is unfreedom, Cheburashka is Mickey Mouse, Russia and the USA.

At the “Pop Over” exhibition at the Erarta Museum, popular characters appear as if they were burnt out, exposing their frame. The author’s name of the project indicates that the time of the power of images has passed, the image is no longer entitled to manipulate consciousness, imposing a product, ideology or emotion.

The “Pop Over” exhibition will be held on the 5th floor of the Museum’s Exhibition Wing from February 9 to April 8, 2018.