Kandinsky Prize 2009
 

November 2 at 18:30 in the Central House of Artists (CHA) on the Crimean Val opens exhibition of works by Kandinsky Prize Nominees for the 2009 competition year.
Kandinsky Prize exhibition presents the nominees for the third time (since 2007). Over the last qualifying period in the organizational structure of the awards have been two changes: expanded from 6 to 7 people, the international jury and was established by the advisory council of 6 people.

Because the jury came Friedhelm Hütten, director of Deutsche Bank Art, new members of the jury began Alla Rosenfeld, curator, art historian, vice president of Russian paintings Sotheby's (2006-2008), and Vasily Tsereteli, executive director of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art.

Application deadline in 2009 declined from 4.5 months to 3.5 months. During this time, was filed by 331 (the last year - 337), each party may submit multiple works in different nominations. The total number of nominees in 2009 was 45.

The exhibition in Central House of Artists, a total area of 3.5 thousand square meters. m, will feature the works of all 45 award nominees by Kandinsky in 2009 in three categories, with a total prize fund of 60 thousand euros, including:
• «Project of the Year" - 24 nominee (40 thousand euros);
• «Young Artist. Project of the Year "- 10 nominees (up to 30 years, 10 thousand euros);
• «media art. Project of the Year "- 11 nominees (10 thousand euros).

The exhibition will run until November 26. Exposure and design exhibitions - Andrei Erofeev, architecture - Boris Bernasconi.

Nominees in the category "Project of the Year"
1. Konstantin Batynkov
2. Peter White
3. Vita Buivid
4. Lech Garikovich
5. Dmitry Gretsky
6. Alla Esipovich
7. Vadim Zakharov
8. Vladimir Kozin
9. Irina Korina
10. Rostislav Lebedev
11. Gregory Maiofis
12. Igor Mukhin
13. Nicholas Nasedkin
14. Arkady Nasonov
15. Paul Pepperstein
16. Nicholas Polissky
17. Roman Sakin
18. Simon Faibisovich
19. Natalia Hlebtsevich
20. Anastasia Khoroshilova
21. Dmitry Tsvetkov
22. Cyril Chelushkin
23. Dmitry Shorin
24. Sergei Shutov
 
Nominees in the category "Young Artist"
1. 3ART
2. MAKE
3. Milk & Vodka
4. Eugene Antufiev
5. Andrei Blokhin, Georgy Kuznetsov
6. Lech Garikovich
7. Ivan Lungin
8. Stepan Subbotin
9. Dmitry Teselkin
10. Alexander Frolov

Nominees in the category "media art project of year"
1. Tanatos Banionis
2. Alexandra Dementieva
3. Julia Devlyashova, Alexandra Toschevikova
4. Vadim Zakharov
5. Marina Zvyagintsev
6. Elena Kovylina
7. Alexander Lavrov
8. Alex Politov, Marina Belova
9. Provmyza
10. Dmitry Sokolenko, Olga Tobreluts
11. Aristarchus Chernyshev, Alexei Shulgin

..... At the press conference, longer and more interesting all said Andrei Erofeev. According to him, the current long list awards reflect the situation not only in Moscow but also in Russia. In addition, says Mr. Erofeev, the premium quietly slipping away from "the dictates of galleries. Finally, the composition of the nominees shows that a generational change and "non-conformism waved us to handle. As "the last of the Mohicans" Andrei Erofeev called the nominee "Project of the Year" Vadim Zakharov, from whose installation and exhibition starts. However, in the long list is the older artist - Rostislav Lebedev, famous for his sots-artovskimi sculptures since the mid 1970's ....
Read more: (photos from the opening) http://www.kommersant.ru/doc.aspx?Do...8118&NodesID=8

It may take a "Project of the Year.

Cultural Foundation "ArtChronika" presented at the Central House of Artists exhibition of the nominees
Photo Gallery:
http://lenta.ru/photo/2009/11/06/kandinskiy/
1.Grigory Maiofis. From the project "The Artist and His Model
2.Tanatos Banionis. The "divine wind" (fragment)
3.Konstantin Batynkov. Moscow
4.Semen Faibisovich. Playmates (part of triptych)
5.A. Politov & M. Belova. The "Be proud that you're a chicken"

Shortlist ... haw
 

The short-list of 3 nominee came from each "category". something very unexpected and strange.

Project of the Year "- 24 nominee (40 thousand euros):
Vadim Zakharov
Nicholas Polissky
Paul Pepperstein

"Young Artist of the Year. Project of the Year "- 10 nominees (up to 30 years, 10 thousand euros):
Eugene Antufiev
MAKEEV
Alexander Frolov

"Media art. Project of the Year "- 11 nominees (10 thousand euros):
Aristarchus Chernyshev and Alexei Shulgin
Julia Devlyashova and Alexander Toschevikova
Vadim Zakharov

was the first day - a terrible boredom ...... a lot of frankly poor job (was terrible) .................... Polissky-super

Paul Pepperstein
 

Paul Pepperstein was born in the artist V. Pivovarova in 1966.
In 1987 he graduated from the Prague Academy of Arts and founded the group "Medical Hermeneutics".
Overall artist's work formed under the influence of Conceptual Ilya Kabakov and Victor Pivovarov.
Personal foreign exhibitions (selected):
2007 Talking Animals, Kaufmann Gallery, Zurich
Future Landscapes, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Vancouver
2006 Drawings, Museum of Art, Basel
2001 Die Ausstelung eines Gespraches: with B. Groys and I. Kabakov, The Arts House, CAG, Switzerland
2000 How to find Angel, together with I. Kabakov, Sprovieri Gallery, London

Group foreign exhibitions (selected):
2007 MOSCOPOLIS, Center for the Arts Vyuittona Louis, Paris
Exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp
Intellectual realism, a special project for the 2nd Moscow Biennale
in the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
2004 26 Biennial in Sao Paulo, Paviolon Sitsillio Mataratstso, Sao Paulo,
2004-2003 Moscow-Berlin-Moscow 1950-2000, the Historical Museum, Moscow, Martin Gropiu-UIA, Berlin

Fashion magazine GQ has recognized Paul Pepperstein best writer in 2007.
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Works of Paul can be seen here http://www.regina.ru/main?page=artis...&type=selected works & action = show & pic = 2

In the futuristic project "City of Russia" an artist and writer Paul Pepperstein addresses topical theme of cultural heritage of Russia.

Simply brilliant! (IMHO)

 St. Petersburg tatuerovschik Sergei Ignatiev (Ignat) tattoo done ...