Road-art incident
//At the exhibition Andrew made his way Kuzkina car
Kommersant »№ 65 (4365) on 14.04.2010
In the Stella Art Foundation on Mytnaya street passed personal exhibition laureate "Innovation" and "Companion" Andrew Kuzkina. Valentin Dyakonov will remember this event, and not only due to the work of Mr. Kuzkina.
"Heroes of levitation Andrei Kuzkina doomed to join the urban legends of the Moscow art world. And here it is not just that it is one of the best shows of the season. Just at 21.15, when Opening Day is coming to an end, storefront showroom rammed the jeep Volvo. He smashed one of the huge sculptures made of bread, pulled down the battery and stopped two feet away from the wall, behind which sat Fund staff Stella Art. In the hall rushed water. In the descriptions of eyewitnesses, a man stepped out of the car, which explained the incident that had confused the gas and brake. In the incident affected only the correspondent radio station Ekho Moskvy Tatiana Pelipeyko, but from the medical care she refused. Yesterday morning it became known that the action is planned: the bank's security camera, which was located in the same house with the Fund, recorded the moment when the unknown puts to the side in the exhibition hall showcases special bridges. Development Director Stella Art Foundation Nicholas Molock told Kommersant that the meaning and purpose of action is unclear: "We now calculate the financial and moral damage, but are not ready to indict. There are many vague."
Of course, we can not exclude that the incident was rigged by the artist himself. Mr Kuzkin (for comment yesterday, he was not available) is known for his radical performances. State Prize for contemporary art "Innovation" he received a share "in a circle" in which more and more deeply immersed in the curing cement. But there are many arguments against hasty accusations artist in that he took the opportunity to attract additional interest to the person. In the Stella Art Foundation in its "authorship" no one believes.
And indeed, it is difficult to imagine that the "Heroes of levitation, need some special promotion. In the context of contemporary art, always ready with a passion to play in beads and naplesti samoreferentnyh associations, the exhibition looks like a blow below the belt. In the hall, running, by the way, as usual, Kuzkin are three huge, under three meters tall, the figures of naked men, made from bread and glue. At a special stand located thirteen figures chamber size. Taking a sample of prisoners from the famous art thief song with the words "I modeled it from bread chelovechika male, she stuck to it chelovechika another, Kuzkin created a strong image of the death and disappointment, once again recalling that the man was born to crawl. The artist at the vernissage hovered over the audience in a hammock, suspended from the ceiling, like the Old Testament God, a rest after six days of creation.
In a choice of bread as the material there is nothing original. This archaic technique in many works successfully developed Leonid Tishkov. The symbol of transience of life sculptures out of bread, too, was not due Kuzkina. In 2006, the Chilean artist Constanza Puente made a self-portrait of the bread and put him in a park in the Chilean capital of Santiago, giving the slow dismemberment pigeons. In the figures Kuzkina, however, more vital primitive. They remind heads of Easter Island, ritual statues of pagan gods. In spite of the neurotic, closed posture, which Kuzkin portrays its "heroes", they are still feeling dull, straight-line power.
The fact that the jeep crushed one of the sculptures, there is logic that can not be seen in the context of recent history of accidents involving government officials and major business entities. It is hoped that this truth is not brought in by the artist himself. Because if Kuzkin deliberately risked the lives of other people, it leaves the space of art and aesthetics becomes a criminal offense. Surrealist Andre Breton once wrote that the most avant-garde artist step would be to go out and unload a pistol into the crowd. Let's hope that this is not the case.
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