Exhibition "Tragedy in the Corner" Automatic translate

April 28 at the Museum of Moscow will open the exhibition "Tragedy in the corner" - this is the work of 34 of the brightest young artists from 14 regions of Russia from Vladikavkaz to Vladivostok. This generation was born in the USSR or in the 1990s, which has a unique experience of life at the breakdown of three eras - and talks about this experience in large-scale installations, series of paintings, photographs and videos.

The name of the project is a quote from "Eugene Onegin" by Pushkin. The problem of heroism on the edge is a classic for Russian culture: from homestead life to penal servitude, or the pathos of developing new lands and raising virgin lands. Artists consider in their projects the issue of the “tragic” and its overcoming. How to be in the corner, on the edge - and at the same time on the front line. Their works convey both the sense of collapse and the unshakable hope of a revival inherent in the atmosphere of the 90s, and different ways of living today: to go into the depths of a folk tale, into attempts to revive socialism or into the depths of knowing oneself.

This exhibition is an art guide to Russia, showing local problems and the “genius of the place” in the sharp, ironic language of art. It is no coincidence that the meeting of the regions will take place at the Museum of Moscow: “all roads lead to Rome”, but the authors of the project lead the viewer away from the “Third Rome” on an exciting and piercing journey into the depths of Russia.

Within the framework of the exhibition, there will be a presentation of the book “Tragedy in the Corner”: 656 pages of an illustrated guide with articles about each region in Russian and English. This is a “non-colonial”, insider, warm, but strict view of specialists on the artistic situation and historical features of their territory. The language of articles is intentionally non-academic and strives for fiction of various genres - from a table talk to a parody of a chapter from a school textbook. The authors were inspired by the dystopian “Telluria” of Sorokin with her Babylonian multilingualism, but in contrast to her they wanted to create a utopia in both the book and the exhibition, where many identities have something in common and lead to mutual understanding.

The project was initiated by the Creative Union of Artists of Russia and the Volga branch of the Russian Academy of Arts as part of a scholarship program of the Government of the Russian Federation to support young cultural and art workers, implemented by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.