Exhibition of Vladimir Kozina in M & S Gelman: "What have I done worse?"
 

Post pictures for those who have a bad mood - and unwittingly look laugh. The press release says that "art criticism" series "How am I worse?" Petersburg artist Kozina - it could play in luzerstvo "hapless Russian artist," an attempt to find a loophole in the arena of high art, to get to the back entrance, now that the front door is not allowed. " It is something like artistic Role Volodya Mamysheva Monroe. Only in the Stars Mamyshev transform politics and cinema, and Kozin "performansiruet" famous artists. It is noteworthy that the toilet in the Khrushchev era was the appropriate kind for the image of Rembrandt's works, Kuindzhi, Kabakov and Duchamp. Well, what's not to love post-modernism - it is so fun!:)

Cartoons exhibition Kozina: design, creative?
 

I also went to see the exhibition, but turned out to be worse than ready for it. I have a feeling that what he saw - it caricatures, not allegorical, but direct. So do not even need domyslivat that the carcass in the tank - is the theme of Hirst. Naobort, Kozin clearly indicates that the Hurst. It seemed to me that because of the genre, the exhibition is a little bit away from the line of intelligent search in contemporary art. Again, I stress, is not the Kozin, and genre. For example, there is a talented parodist Galkin, who spoke with the tone of Yeltsin, but in my head will not come to assume that Galkin determines foreign policy. This happens in this case. There is a fusion of humor and recognition that together creates the effect of flirting. Subject: "And what am I worse?" - Is a godsend for the cycle layouts for advertising polygraphy. For advertising creative, to design - yes. And for the exhibition space - is not obvious.

Volodya, my words of love for this so-ironic post-modernism have been lenient. Seeing this art, I immediately send it on a shelf "quotational postmodernism", which you have defined as "the fusion of humor and recognition, and more about him not mediate. Your opinion encourages reflection. In this case, the demonstrative "flirting" and "primazyvanie" to the great names - the key reception Kozina. "But this is nothing new - we shall shout with you and we are right - such" primazyvany "was already a lot!". So what are intelligent search A series of "What have I done worse" is interpreted by the artist and curators as a manifesto "luzerstva." That is, they say, is nothing new ordinary provincial artist can not imagine, but to declare itself would still really want it, so he deliberately goes to the old as the reception of postmodernism itself, and thus expresses itself as a banal nothingness. That is, with self-deprecating honesty speaks of his insolvency. In this brave and self-flagellation is here intellectual superiority of the artist. So it presents the artist and curators.
About sharzhirovanie. Cartoons I see only a few scenes - about Shishkin, Savrasov about, about Hearst. But all the scenes in the toilet real claim to art: it is like living creative perspective of the old masters in modern conditions for Kozina. Rembrandt worked in a big house with a workshop, and in Ljubljana, perhaps, nothing but the Khrushchev era, with its toilet is no - there he is doing. And then the cartoon genre, in this case does not hinder, but help - it contributes to "blame" the artist makes it into our perception is quite untenable, and which he seeks (see above why).
Vladimir, thanks for the view!

How to say when something Woody Allen: "If an artist will come up on stage and throw up in the orchestra pit, there will always be in the hall people who announce that this high art"

:)

To whom you allude?