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Strohanivka opened its borders

Biennale of Contemporary Art

in the Moscow State Art-Industrial Academy. Stroganov an exhibition "Strohanivka. Expanding the boundaries", included in the program of the Moscow International Biennale for Young Art "Stop!" Who goes there? ". The conservative school of though and took part in the festival youth vanguard, but did not miss the chance to turn back the clock: slack in the week in empty halls, an exhibition opened at the closing date. She nevertheless managed to view ANNA TOLSTOVA.

The lobby of the building - the swan song of Stalin's palladiantsa Ivan Zholtovsky - resembles a temple, the temple was going on sacrilege. Between the columns stretched air beds with smiling plush carrots Rostand Tavasieva. They gazed without appetite "a wolf" Paul Gulyaeva wound from barbed wire and equipped with a nipple made of aluminum funnels. Next to the bust of the founding father of institutions Count Stroganoff, a glance at which is enough to discourage any desire to come here on the sculpture department, rose chamotte obelisk of tightly twisted and set out on the shelves of book spines. This "knowledge source" Tatiana Astakhova seemed to be hinting that arts education here, as in Soviet times, are not so much in class, as in the library. Behind the columns hidden battle-space mural, written by Alexei Sokolov, Pavel Grishin and alkyd paints and nitroemalyu so that all graffitist Moscow could hang with envy, and grow from the sandy bed tall stalagmite Alexei Dyakov. Alexei Dyakov, sculptor, a graduate Stroganovki, and curated an exhibition, which in these walls look worse than a revolution "revolt of fourteen", when the future Wanderers rasplevalis with the Imperial Academy of Arts.

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Strohanivka was well-known source of manpower for Contemporary Art in the years developed socialism: it came from Dmitry Prigov, Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, Boris Orlov, Leonid Juice, Alexander Kosolapov, Francisco Infante and many others now classics. Need I explain that taught them not to what they later became famous. And what they are famous: Conceptual, social art, kinetizm, perceived in their alma mater as a sort of mental deviation, if any, was perceived. Since then almost Strohanivka not in the least moved to the left. However, in the years developed socialism "Stroganov school" has caused a sort of respect in the nonconformist medium, now in contemporary art in honor of other universities - to any curator or gallery owner would dream of asking the young artist's diploma some rare cases the academy, if it is not a gallery owner from the underpass at the CHA. So the idea is to show in the Art Institute of those of its graduates and postgraduates, who are included in the actual artistic process, a revolutionary double. Keepers of the great traditions of the past for the first time acknowledged that there are other art. And other art in the person of artists, curators, critics and the public for the first time crossed the threshold Stroganovki. In other words, the project ideally fit into the theme of this Youth Biennale "Borders".

The main part of the exhibition "Strohanivka. Expanding the boundaries of" fit in the exhibition hall, where usually shows dissertations. She went out to no worse and maybe even better than many shows in the program "Stop!" Who goes there? ". And certainly мастеровитых stroganovtsev not compare with pale and lethargic by the British Royal College, whose small experiments can be seen now in the fund "Era" in the draft "Z-Time. GMT. Stroganovtsy seems to be divided into two types. Some people tend to be formal exercises on the verge of design: these are minimalist "mobilized" by Roman Sakina, last year nominated them for the award of Kandinsky, or objects made of porcelain and glass polyester Darya Surovtseva reminiscent of paleontological curiosities. Others are developing an inexhaustible vein of Conceptualism: Rostan Tavasiev gathering installation of soft toys, which he inherited from medgermenevtov or Yegor Koshelev, interbreed in the decorative and monumental painting soc-artistskie characters graffitistskimi fonts. Stroganov science is not passed for them in vain: the plastic culture found in the most sarcastic and foolish opuses like installation Rostand Tavasieva "Antiquity. It is a corner of the plaster class, only instead of some Antica draftsman poses posed by classical columns eared head of white plush rabbit, looking those women by the Roman emperor. It is hard to find a more striking proof that traditional art education still would not want to become a modern artist.

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