In Perm, opens the exhibition "Russian poor"

[Allena]

Russian artist features the ability to survive "piercing pity: a tin can on a vacant lot to the trampled in the dirt cigarette picture. In this outburst of sympathy and hidden meaning of the Russian poor.

On the cultural agenda in Perm - Russian poor "Sergei Gordeev and Marat Gelman. The exhibition is not opened, but the review is available. The site bednoe.ru lined with high-quality photographs of most items, something that can be found in nature.
About talking and wondering, writing, and will still write. That's just not going to rein in its usual bias, when all the answers known in advance. When the browser asks himself: "What takes the contemporary art?" - And then answers himself: "Engendering shock and revulsion. Dispelling all and everything. Irony. What is there to think?
And the occasion is worth reflection. For the first time in Perm unfolds not a retrospective of the works of contemporary art in an "exhibition of achievements. Sergey Gordeev and Marat Gelman offer quality Art Award-strcpy. In trudnoobozrimom and very colorful field of contemporary art are traced not named yet mainstream art searches and gave him the name: you know it - "Russian poor. So the exhibition - it is also a prime concept.

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about it and would like to think. Just because it is interesting. And because it concerns not only of contemporary art.
Key issues and future grain of contention - the word "poor". One very respected and well-educated man was offended by the invitation: "Do not go. Why is Russian - poor? Russian art is not poor! "
The curator explains that the "poor" - is about the nature of materials used by artists selected by them. Indeed, the specific materials: corrugated cardboard, scotch tape, rubber tires, metal and wire, rope, tin, unbaked clay, foam. And something on the edge of materiality in general - dust, ash ...
Such a choice has its own aesthetic sense and sight. The choice of material - a sort of statement about the modern world. This is the first story, which develops exhibition.
Coal or diamonds? The exhibition is a sculptural object - "Skull". The author, Vladimir Anselm was born, incidentally, in Perm. The skull of coal - black, dimly flickering coal-black faces. This is a replica (whether consciously or not) on the acclaimed work of the most famous and highly paid British artist. Damien Hirst skull made of platinum, entirely encrusted with diamonds.
Painters, British and Russian, worked with a prototype. Skull - a sacred symbol, one of the oldest in the iconography, particularly Christian. One prototype, but it is plastically articulated polar: diamond and coal. For this choice - a profound difference in the shades of cultural traditions: Roman Catholic - with its high desire for beauty, and Orthodox - with its ascetic spiritualism.
Damien Hirst has created an incredibly hard, shiny surface of a magnetic, exuding light haze, scattering views. Associations set. But attention still pull the diamonds. Only and wrote: how much it might cost? Anselm does the opposite. This concentrated in coal clot underground darkness almost sucks the eye. The artist exposes the essence, the scheme, an archetype - the skeleton of the skeleton.
It is known that the chemical, coal and diamond - the same thing. And the art - the poorer the (transparent) material, the bare energy of the image. The artist works at a minimum, where nothing can hide the brilliant and virtuosic surface.
For the plot of asceticism "poor art" is another. That makes a very poor Russian.
About pity for tin. The appeal of our artists to "poor" materials is an important motive. Not aesthetic, but rather metaphysical. The curators of the exhibition is very important to accurately hit a note to the Russian culture, the nerve center of its perspective. I mean especially by the religious roots of consciousness-reaching sense of pity and compassion to all the poor and decrepit, to the world of random, abandoned human things.
This outburst said at the exhibition "Ikonos Valery Koshlyakov. Golden color spiral structure made of corrugated cardboard and wire (galvanizing) - quote Tatlin's famous tower. She pulls from a frozen vortex of some tin boxes, debris, scraps, pipes. A crown design, as the solar disc, tin.
As evidenced by "poor" items collected in the objects of Olga and Alexander Florensky? The fact that distinguishes the Russian artist, and that so precisely formulated, Vladimir Nabokov: the ability to survive as formotvorchesky impulse "piercing pity: in a tin can on a vacant lot to the trampled in the dirt cigarette picture <...> - copy to all of life, which by the instantaneous alchemical distillation , King's experience becomes something precious and eternal. In this outburst of sympathy and hidden meaning of the Russian poor.
And no outrageous. Exhibition of Russian promises to the poor to be rich in discoveries.

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Oops Sorry! This is not my paper! Just noticed that the author and the source is not supplied. Author - philologist Vladimir Abashev, article from Perm business newspaper Business Class

[Vladimir]

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Coal or diamonds? The exhibition is a sculptural object - "Skull". The author, Vladimir Anselm was born, incidentally, in Perm. The skull of coal - black, dimly flickering coal-black faces. This is a replica (whether consciously or not) on the acclaimed work of the most famous and highly paid British artist. Damien Hirst skull made of platinum, entirely encrusted with diamonds.

Who could ask whether the sale of the skull Anselm and how much it costs?

Here's another picture of the skull http://www.kommersant.ru/dark-galler...0&stpid=21 with the same exhibition. Materials (rags tires), you can guess that Vladimir Kozin.