Exhibition of sculptures and installations by Leonid Perekhovsky "OXYUMORON" Automatic translate

From April 22 to May 14, the art center EXPOSED (Shabolovka St., 31G) will host an exhibition of sculptures and installations by Leonid Savingsky.

OXYUMORON will be the first solo exhibition of the author in Moscow over the past 5 years.

Free admission.

Since the beginning of the 1990s, Leonid Savingsky has lived in Russia and Germany. He was lucky to get an education at the Stroganov School and at the famous Dusseldorf Academy, and his childhood passed in the circle of Moscow conceptualists. The classical school of sculpture in the artist’s work was then transformed into abstract, and then into conceptual. For example, in the early 2000s, he created projects of obviously impracticable monuments for places where they would never have agreed to put them on.

Nonetheless, for the most part, Conservation prefers the creation of spatial works - sculptures, objects and installations. This is a fantasy-reflection on a philosophical, literary and historical theme.

The exhibition at the EXPOSED art center will show three sculptural series from different years: one dedicated to the famous monuments to Russian emperors (2015) decorating St. Petersburg, the other to Moscow landscapes (2011) and the third to symbolic objects (2011).

So most of the works on display are devoted to Russia, its mystery, which often turns into an absurd drama. It seems that the artist says: “I love, but I’m afraid,” and looks at it with sad joy. He gave the exhibition the name "Oxymoron" (which means a deliberate combination of conflicting concepts), a striking example of which is the expression "Russia cannot be understood by the mind." And Okhsymoron of Okhransky is a sculpture-homage to a two-headed eagle, the Russian coat of arms of pre- and post-socialist times. The recognizable form turns into a semi-abstract, flowing away, immediately losing imperial pathos. Proud eagles have lost their crowns and transformed into screaming chimeras, a scepter and a power - into something biomorphic.

Everything becomes even more confused - the St. Petersburg monuments lose their usual outlines, the Moscow soil is intertwined in intricate patterns, the “Bread” turn into a kind of gold bullion strewn with jewelry, the “Sunflowers” ​​into erotic symbols, and a huge funnel of that and look will drag into the unknown… Everything all around is shaky and contradictory: life is an oxymoron.

Alexander III, bronze, 2015, 20x16x71

Funnel, 170x100, gypsum

Leonid Savingsky. Kremlin, bronze, 2014

Leonid Savingsky, Oxymoron, bronze, 2015

Peter I, 2008, Gypsum, 260x60x110

Of bread