THE "SECOND AVANT-GARDE" BY GREGORY NESTEROV (Minsk, 1960-th 70-th)

“THE SECOND AVANT-GARDE” BY GREGORY NESTEROV (Minsk, 1960-th 70-th)

"The first avant-garde" one can not love, but do not recognize its existence is impossible...
It reflected the revolutionary moods in the international community's 1905-1914...
After 60 years, these moods were repeated.
By the revolutionary period of 1965-1974 years: in Paris is "of the student revolution"; in the US "of the negro riots"; In China "the cultural revolution"; in Moscow are "the dissidents" and "of the Bulldozer Exhibition".
The art of this period was named as the "second avant-garde” (by M. Grobman).
These sentiments are bright and distinctive, despite all the similarities with the “avant-garde of the first".
In Belarus that moods in those years were similar, it is not difficult to see and by the example of my work...
This style was organic and original… It possible do not to love but impossible to deny its originality...
The moods of society have the change, and together with them and the forms of creativity, style, art and life.
We may like something else... but what appeared for us once in the history is impossible to throw out...


By the retrospective exhibition “Aspiration for Absolute” at the gallery "DK" (Minsk, October 2014) http://forum.artinvestment.ru/blog.php?b=277541