"Territory of the stars" Automatic translate

Project participants: Andrey Arkhipov, Alexey Vasiliev, Weld Queen (Alexandra Ivleva), Dmitry Kolistratov, Ivan Korshunov, Marika Krasina and Anton Krivulya, Anastasia Kuznetsova-Ruf, Timofey Smirnov, Rostan Tavasiev, Zmogk (Konstantin Danilov). Young artists participate in the project, some constantly work with Fine Art, others participated in several gallery projects, and the first four authors on this list present their works for the first time in the Gallery space.

A star is an ancient sign, symbol, object and has a lot of meanings, meanings and applications. Accordingly, the artists were absolutely free to choose the concept of their work and the plastic images of the embodiment of ideas. As a result, this project brought together artists of different styles and directions.

Andrey Arkhipov sees his star in the baroque space. Its dynamic compositions comprise beautiful naked youths, the sensual physicality of their images is saturated with naturalism, however, where beauty dominates, ethics rests. A riot of movements fills the expressive canvas of Alexei Vasiliev. Of course - dance, of course - rock and roll! The canvas of Dmitry Kolistratov “Not Life, but a Fairy Tale” transforms reality into the fairy-tale world of children’s perception, fills it with impossible, but beautiful inhabitants. His works from the series “Souvenirs” require efforts to make out, for example, Moscow State University or St. Basil’s Cathedral, the contour image of which the author veiled in saturated color. Each capital city has its own “star-like” objects, the historical significance of which seems to be “washed away”, and they themselves turn into souvenirs for tourists. Ivan Korshunov sends us to the children’s country of fairy tales. It seems that the artist started a Ryaba chicken that lays Faberge eggs, from which star children hatch.

Marika Krasina and Anton Krivulya are in constant motion in the space of the world, they have gone from denial to return to culture, image and ritual. As a result of their work, which they buried for some time in the ground, and then removed, they became the witnesses of history. The space of A. Kuznetsova-Ruf’s paintings is filled with air, in it in the light of day the modern Icarus - the delta glider (“Bridge”) freely hovers, or this night air, saturated with a deep blue color, in which it is so good to view the stars, comfortably sitting on the roof of the house ("Banner"). Timofey Smirnov very completely mischievously separated the stars familiar to everyone from childhood from the towers that they crowned, and placed them in different landscape circumstances and even made them talk!

Dynamic abstract compositions by Rostan Tavasiev are written in the same “behemothography” technique, when instead of a brush the artist dips a plush toy and creates a work with it, leaving his co-author forever in it. As a result, a toy, such as a bunny or a bear, as a continuation of the author’s hands symbolizes the eternal presence of the creator in the picture. Konstantin Zmogk is a street-art artist, he creates his abstract compositions on street objects and as chamber works. Color - form - movement - these are the signs of his dynamic abstract paintings. And again, Alexander Ivlev sends us to a fairy tale. It’s so convenient to take a selfie in the womb of her sculpture Slonburger.

The artist is free to proclaim himself a star, because, as Schopenhauer wrote, modesty is the only virtue of grayness, and titanium can boldly declare, I am a titan, I am a genius! Biographies of artists together with them create galleries, some of the authors become famous. In this sense, the gallery can be considered as a star incubator. Gallery - the territory of the stars!

Irina Filatova.