After the previous post did not say "elephant, I did not notice," but the great hall with objects mastodons conceptualist Kabakov, I did not miss the mind only because accidentally read a sign at the exit with a loud name. Of course, low-key style installation of "Monument to the lost civilization", which drew drawings and layouts of many projects spouses Kabakov, is part of the concept. But ... To revive the ability of perception, almost atrophied from long hours of a succession of vivid impressions, needed something more spectacular than modest stands simulating engineering reports of Soviet times.
I think it orgprokol: draft-retrospective of Ilya and Emilia Kabakov should be presented separately.

1 Fragment exposure Kabakov.
2 Radya (Ekaterinburg). Work on self-immolation of Tibetan monks part painted, part burned with Molotov cocktails.
3 Basil Tsagolov "Phantom of the revolution." According to the artist, the painting was inspired movement Occupy.
5.4 Two of Arsene Savadov. The artist does not change his style. The second picture - "Aurora, a girl holding a flag." I think it is the banner of postmodernism)).
6.7 Masha Shubin "Withering beauty." Self-portrait of carnations six different colors. In the first picture: so he looked at the opening ceremony. On the second, my picture shows a few days before closing.
8 Natasha Schulte. Works from the series "Submission to judge."
9 Installation. (The authors do not remember).

Yes, intresno.

Allegoria Sacra
 

At a time when the tired legs begin to falter and fall apart into separate backbone vertebrae , the trail leads you into the dark room where a huge screen flicker when you distinguish on the floor ... soft beds .
Muttering prayers of thanksgiving , you fall on the mattresses, are immersed in the enveloping wave of music and feel the bliss . This is paradise!
After a while consciousness floats to the surface and begins to follow the flashing frames. Another half an hour - and the video stream completely erodes your illusion. Alas , this is not the last station , but only a purgatory, a temporary shelter ... We must get up and go with things on the way out.

The project "Allegoria Sacra" art group AES + F - final part of the trilogy, Hell - Heaven - Purgatory. Muscovites could already see it : Premiere "Allegoria Sacra" was held in 2011 in the 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art.
The screenshots I did not come out. I had to borrow footage from Neta and promorolika .

Needless to write a "Made in China", and when it all - Swiss watches, Russian nesting dolls, African sculpture, etc. - Do we know where.
It can restrict laconic "Made in". Probably reasoned Chinese artist, throw a creative nickname.
Under Meydin artist in the exhibition was devoted almost an entire room (photos 1-6).
Idols of the leaders of the proletariat by Marx and Engels is not politically correct, for roughly hinted that Marxism is supposedly lost its potency (photo 2))).

What's left to do to the poor Africans, when competitors from Celestial displace them from the market of African sculpture?
Is that fill the empty niches in the old styles of European art: the photographs 7 - 10 working Yinki Shonibare, an artist of Nigerian descent (and, incidentally, the Chevalier of the Order of the British Empire). (8-9 - "Left" picture).
Yinka Shonibare presented a series of fake deaths (Fake Death Picture), beat stories of famous paintings by Western artists. His paintings create an interesting contrast of barbarous afrikanizmam Meydin'a.

(here I found the work Yinki, compared with the originals. If you slowly scroll down the page, without revealing the clues at once, it will great, "Guess ").

SW. Art-lover. Thank you for the photos and detailed comments !
Especially valuable your immediate impression is one thing to look at the monitor - both in real life.
Very impressive , really nice organized , the site even has a virtual guide.
It has long been like A.Savadov . I wonder on what the direction is registered ? I would like to know the opinion of the Kiev art .
For me - with elements of surrealism advertising design .

This is best expressed in an interview he Savadov:
Worth a look about him in Wikipedia [/URL] and go through the references cited there, including on its website.

Savadov truly postmodernist to the bone. If the "expanded in terms of vectors," his work - in the sense in which I have just said, not knowing about your question in the "surrealist" - then there is little need to surrealism - in spite of the resemblance.
Savadov - a player, inventor, strategist. His strength is in the mind, not in the unconscious.
A projection of surrealism - is a mystery, enigma. See an early de Chirico - and all will become clear.

Also, thank you for the wonderful photos.

Well, you never know what the artist says about himself, recognized in surrealism is not the "trendy". Savadov unerringly chose the most relevant brand - "postmodernism."
Only post-modernism - not the direction in this bunch of things are going.
With regard to the conscious and the unconscious, there is somewhat more complicated. The fact that the unconscious is just "slip" on the shoulders of the conscious and very elusive when you try to portray it instead.
By the way, it's better as a Arshile Gorky and Joan Miro, than the same Dali, and even better - the poets. Yet the very process of writing, oil painting is too long and "material": if you want - not want - to build a track, do a preliminary sketch, underpainting, and then-studies. Spontaneity can be expressed in the figure, well, in watercolor, but 2 weeks to write spontaneously does not work ...
But this I do, the reasoning ... Spontaneous <! - ~ 1 ~ ->

PS. I know his site and some interviews.

1-2. "After a Dream ." Installing the Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota , now living in Berlin, gave the impression at all. To that, but I room with soaring female dresses, braided web of black woolen yarn , recalled the tale of " Bluebeard ."

Three . Shigeo Toya (Japan) "Forest IX». 30 wooden sculptures carved acrylic and covered with ashes. ( It is said that in the "Night of the Biennial " in the woods a few people got lost. So they still have not found ...: eek <! - ~ 1 ~ ->)

4. The picture of the artist from Hong Kong.

Five . Elegant British artist objects of Iranian origin Hushiyari Shiraz , as well as her other work, go back to the traditions of Sufi mysticism.
In the background (and the picture 6) - Canan Tolon fotomirazhi (Canan Tolon), the artist , who lives in Istanbul and California.
Paintings are built as a collage of the unreal landscapes. I liked it.

7-9. Pakistani artist Rashid Rana. Object " In desperate search of paradise II". Photo printing on aluminum and steel.

1-2 years 10-15 typical biography of a young artist would start like this: born in London (Paris, Berlin, ...), works in Beijing (Delhi, Kyoto ...). And while most read, was born in Calcutta and lives and works in London.
This is the case Rakib Shaw. Picture of a young (r.1974) of the artist in 2007, led the top of the most expensive work of contemporary Indian artists.

On the "Arsenal" entrance hall with works Rakib Show graced the inscription, designed to prevent the infiltration of people there with the plastic and unstable mentality. However, visible from the entrance part of the sculpture defied the ban, as seemed innocent variation "Leda and the swan."
Of course, this mousetrap worked flawlessly, without distinguishing between strongly and the faint of heart), so now I can not advise wisely sensitive viewers not to open the first two shots <- ~ 6 ~ ->.
Take a few steps - and the myth of Leda brutally invades shivaistskaya unknown version of the myth of Prometheus. The triumph of beautiful birds with the heads of the vampires bats for some reason does not give happiness.
The shock, are perceived greetings from Bosch, Bronzino, Taiji (Great Limit) comes to mind is that the death of the demons perspective gives a better rebirth, and, finally, everything merges into a fatal "ce la vie."

3. "Starling" Fred Tomaselli (USA). Critics trace the ancestry of Ptah up to "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe.

4. Completes the bird theme "You are a bird" - ironic picture Wei Dong on the Cultural Revolution. (Photo c site Arsenale).
"I would consider myself a traveler. Most travelers write their thoughts in a diary. Where is my blog? Maybe the artist does not need a blog to describe his life, for his work to serve this purpose. ... my paintings are encrypted diary, which can not be shared with others. ".
Wei Dong.

5. Lara Baladi - Lebanese living in Egypt (she studied in London and Paris.) Working in digital printing technology captured traces guesses about the fate of his father dying from a disease of the artist.

5.10 Installation of Ana Maria Pacheco "Shadows traveler."
As soon as crawling stage with sculptures (wood), figures like act out scenes of complex mystical drama. The style of the installation refers to the Latin American magical realism. So it should be: the author, who is now living in London, a native of Brazil.
In my opinion, this is one of the most powerful works in the exhibition.

On this Photo Tour is finished.
Thanks to everyone who accompanied it.
Offsayte on a link to virtual tour of the Arsenale in 2012 - in excellent quality and high resolution. I strongly advise.