LCR, thanks for the translation - the unusual materials, and at the same time pressing.
Once traditional art again returns to the focus of attention of artists and the audience - so it is something important for our era.
Curiously, a former anarchist Osmolovskii, which in certain circles is valued for proactive course of artistic events intuition turned recently to the abstract wooden sculpture, seeking to unite in the spirit of her people's traditions and the aestheticism of pure form. ( "Bread" - Kandinsky Prize, 2007.). His latest project "Adoration" is devoted to the study of the sacred nature of origin of forms in art.
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Picasso in primitive ikusstve saw the lesson of the magic of the unconscious form of subordination - which is largely determined by its artistic program.
Osmolovskii, realizing the danger of boundless anarchy, searches estetizirovannyh traditions of Russian pagan archetypes, which can be used to "spell" social chaos.
And in fact, and in another case, we guessed not just a feeling of sacredness forms, but also hope for a magical efficacy of art. The gap between the consciousness of modern European and African artist and magician are not so insurmountable.