Anatoly Belkin Side by Side "in the AL Gallery, St. Petersburg

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The exhibition of one of the most distinguished artists of St. Petersburg Anatoly Belkin "Side by Side" is a logical extension of the Hermitage "Golden Marsh" (2004-2005 years.) And parodic diary entomologist Expedition № 6. "Side by Side" - a project of the coexistence of man with the worlds of plants and insects, interaction with them during life and dissolves in them after death.

In "Side by Side" get on different components. There is traditional for the creation of some of Belkin alternate reality through a combination of quasi-scientific hoaxes with objets d 'art. There is an ironic look at the standard birth process - maturation - reproduction - decay - look peep from Asgard, sincerely wants to amuse himself and to please others. There is a mixture of styles, conciliatory nature Ready-made, conceptual lyrics, spontaneous artistic gestures, visual and verbal, peredvizhnicheskoe attention to minor details and postmodern science-like - everything is what keeps the poetics of Belkin.

The artist continues to invent mono on the vicissitudes of Entomology, though the protagonist is idle - stops in the center of the exhibition hall at a point beam. It (sex in this life stage is not important, because it's mummy) does not fit some bedraggled undertaker, and Lilia Kiselenko; his company are not commonplace earthworms, while the exotic Cucarachas - Madagascar cockroaches, and even the soundtrack, simulating a hot summer afternoon with conventional suburban tea, clinking spoons and talk about anything written by the guru of electronic music by Alexei Rakhiv (ex-Dead ears). All that perfectionism on the one hand the materialization of personal needs Belkin to an ideal device, if not the world as a whole, then at least parts of it, but on the other - the implementation of the "deeply hidden needs of modern art - the idea of ordering".

This is almost an ideal world embedded pictures, collages and graphics, something exhibited before, something done specifically for the exhibition, but all together creates a sense of balance, justice, even such a vital turmoil as death.
Lisa Savina

The exhibition will run until 15 May 2010.

AL Gallery
St. Petersburg, nab. Fontanka river, 76
Tel.: (812) 713 35 34
www.album-gallery.ru
info@album-gallery.org

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Alexander Borovsky, Anatoly Belkin, gallery owner Natalya Pankov

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