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The Volga branch of the Russian Academy of Arts in Saratov will present the work of Kuban artists - the exhibition project "Matriarch ART"

April 26, 2018 at 16.00 in the halls of the Saratov Art College named after A.P. Bogolyubov (Universitetskaya, 59) will open the interregional exhibition project "Matriarch ART" (the author of the idea, curator - S. N. Demkina).

Organizers of the exhibition in Saratov:

Volga branch of the Russian Academy of Arts, SKHU them. A.P. Bogolyubov with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Saratov Region.

Dates of exposure: April 26 - May 20, 2018.

The exhibition was organized as part of the experimental creative workshops of the Russian Academy of Arts and TSH of Russia.

The head of the experimental creative workshops of the Russian Academy of Arts and the TSH of Russia - Konstantin Khudyakov,

vice-president of the Russian Academy of Arts, chairman of the Volga branch of the Russian Academy of Arts, president of TSHR, honored artist of Russia.

The curator of the experimental creative workshops of the Russian Academy of Arts and TLC of Russia is Svetlana Kuznetsova, First Deputy Chairman of the Volga branch of the Russian Academy of Arts, honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts.

The project manager is Svetlana Nikolaevna Demkina, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Arts, professor, Honored Art Worker of Russia, chairman of the TLC Kuban (Krasnodar).

The MatriarchArt exhibition project brought together 18 exhibitors, including famous painters, designers, sculptors from the South of Russia.

Project concept

Ivan Vashchenko, art critic, honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts:

“The modern artistic process resembles the movement of a pendulum: from plastic nihilism, when (according to F. M. Dostoevsky)“ if there is no God, then everything is allowed ”, which goes on to modernist rethinking of the creatively saturated pages of civilization, while thickening its original meaning, introducing cultural connotations or game start.

In this context, a matrix-centric society, which once stood at the cradle of civilization and associated with the cult of fertility, can be considered the beginning of the universe from a modernist point of view. It seems that in the early days of the Old Testament creation, when the firmament was separated from the abyss, the first truly aesthetically significant components floated in it: breasts, knees, etc. For the Russian South, the matriarchal civilization component is a situational and geographically close concept: from A gigantic arc began on Lake Meotsky, like a shadow from a bow of the Amazon, going along the Black Sea coast to Colchis of Medea, then to Troy Kassandra and further to the homeland of the poetess Sappho and Alexandria Queen Cleopatra. Rostov-on-Don and Yekaterinodar were incorporated into the “female age” of Russian history, and Crimea was annexed.

The patriarchal social system with its desire for monarchy and alpha dominance introduced fierce competition in the art process, similar to the ancient Olympic principle, only championship, no second places. The Patriarchate has left in the history of art a galaxy of first-class creators and masterpieces for all time. In the North Caucasus, the dominant male principle was reflected in the Nart epic, the noble code of “Adyge-hapsa”, and Cossack military democracy. These ethnographic concepts have become the basis for the originality of regional artistic processes. Semantic archaic zoomorphic statics: Mesopotamian shedu, Egyptian god Apis, minotaur.

Matriarchal and patriarchal conceptual blocks of the project, or rather their gender dialectics as the basis of civilization, in their highest manifestations lead to creativity. In the birth of a new person and in the creation of a work of art there is an initial relationship, it is always the expectation of a more perfect “link” either in the history of the race or in the history of mankind, which is identical to the appearance of an artistic phenomenon or, ideally, a masterpiece. ”

The exhibition is exhibited in Saratov in the halls of the Bogolyubov school from April 26 to May 20, 2018. Excursions, workshops on painting, compositions for students and teachers of art universities, the Saratov art school, and children’s art schools are planned.