Space in all its forms has long been an object of study by both contemporary artists and masters of classics. We would like to continue it, revealing artwork in which the main bearer of the author’s idea is the image of a wall or cramped space.

It is extremely interesting to observe how a wall, wandering from one picture to another, undergoing metamorphoses, appears with persistence in the works of artists. If in former times the wall mainly served as an auxiliary element of the leading motive, today it has captured the plane of the canvas, sometimes being the only bearer of the meaning of the work. There is a tendency to image a narrowed space of two to three meters, enclosed spaces of a room, a corridor, an angle, a shallow depth of the picture.

The metro and elevator, as some cramped rooms, deprived of daylight, regularly appear in the works of young authors. What is it - reality pressing on the psyche?…….

Overpopulation?

The feeling of someone forcibly regulating the space of life? The desire to hide from the zombie effects of the media? Uncertainty about the well-being of the future? The feeling of a permanent war going somewhere?

And is there a sociocultural and historical “constraint phenomenon”?

Project participants:

Evgeny Bachurin
Andrey Volkov
Sergey Gavrilyachenko
Andrey Krasulin
Alexander Vorokhob
Roman Kuzmin
Lena Krasotina
Egor Plotnikov
Pavel Otdelnov
Dmitry Samodin
Leonid Semeyko
Vladimir Titov
From the collection of M. Alshibaya
Ilya Tabenkin
Sergey Smirnov
Andrey Grositsky.
From the collection of V. Ginzburg
Alexandra Kochetkova

WALL. Cramped. INTERSTITUTION Automatic translate

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