Under the sign of Russia will be held today at the 54 th Venice Biennale of Art. The city on the lagoon will be opening the Russian pavilion, the protagonist who becomes an artist Andrew Monastery. It was he, together with a group of "collective action" would represent Russia at this one of the largest and most prestigious art shows of the world, according to ITAR-TASS.
The Venice Biennale officially begin its work June 4 and will end on November 27, but already the end of May, many national pavilions welcome its first guests - gallery owners, artists, art critics and journalists. This year in review will be attended by 88 countries, each of whom will present their unique designs and their masters.
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"Russian party - artist Andrei Monastery and a group of" collective action "(" CD "- the artists Panitkov, Makarevich, Yelagin, Chamomile, Haensgen) - chose the curator of the national pavilion, Boris Groys," - said the head of Stella Art Foundation, commissioner of the Russian Pavilion Stella Kesayeva appointed to this position until 2015.
Name Monastery needs no introduction: it is well known to the Western world. He also took part in the Venice Biennale in 2007. At this time, the installation wizard will present a "blank zones", with the creation of which will use the documentation of old projects and actions that brought fame to the whole of the art world (the whole group held 124 shares).
The main point of the "CD" is not the action itself, and the discussion that was recorded in handwritten and later printed collections titled "Traveling out of town" (published 10 volumes). Documentary evidence and photographs of these shares and see the audience Biennale. They will be presented in the lower halls of the Russian pavilion, built in 1914 on the project by Alexei Shchusev, and the upper rooms will install.
The monastery itself is of the view that the "activities" KD "equally can be classified as literature, visual arts and music." "Collective Action" will never do art in the sense that when we speak of the creation of specific works of art. For us has always been important process, not results, "- said Monastery, for which the invitation to participate in the Russian pavilion was" a complete surprise. "However, the majority of his colleagues and art critics believe that the decision of the curator Boris Groys was absolutely correct and it is showed that the recognition of the home to the monastery comes "slowly but surely." A similar situation was with the artist Ilya Kabakov.
Russia at the Biennale will also be presented and other colorful names. Viewers will see the work of contemporary poet and conceptual artist Dmitry Prigov (deceased in 2007). The exhibition, organized by the State Hermitage Museum, opens in a new "Center for Study of Russian art at the University of Venice" Ca 'Foscari "(Ca'Foscari).
Participants in the parallel program is also included: Anastasia Khoroshilova, which will show portraits of the women hostages in Beslan, a Venetian Palazzo Tre Axis will host an exhibition of contemporary Russian art. In addition, the curator of the entire Biennale, which this year was appointed art historian and critic, founder of the prestigious journal of art, "Parkett" Kurindzher Beach, chose to participate in the main project "Illyumi-nation" Russian photo artist Anna Titov. Total for Russia's participation in the Venice Biennale Culture Ministry allocated 10 million rubles.
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Venice Biennale - the largest international forum of contemporary art, collecting art elite of the world. Parade dates back to 1895. Since 1975, every two years and alternates with the Architecture Biennale.