Presentation of the book by Sergey Katrana "Poem" and exhibition "Cassowary" April 23 at the NCCA

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23 April 2013. the National Centre for Contemporary Art will be a one-day exhibition "Cassowary" and a presentation of the book "Poems" by Sergei Katrana.

Exhibition Sergei Katrana "Cassowary" traditional conflict affects the art community and the layman. The artist places the viewer in the "barred" room with one window, from which it is viewed zoo visitors. Who is free and who is in a cage? Artist - is the subject or object of attention? The author tries to answer these questions using the operating system of contemporary art.
During the exhibition, presentation of the book by Sergey Katrana "Poem." Sergei Qatran - the artist-researcher, stands before the audience in a completely different incarnation. The book "Poems" - his first major publication. In the discussion of the publication will include: art critic, curator and author of the introductory article to the book "Poems" Vitaly Patsyukov (NCCA), the artist, art theorist Anatoly Osmolovsky, playwright, critic Oleg Shishkin; publisher Maria Mironova (Publisher LSM), the artist and author Sergey spiny dogfish, etc.
The book "Poems" Katrana written in a difficult genre, brings to mind the experiments oberiuty, giving birth to the analogy and association with the works of Vladimir Mayakovsky. Familiar with the work of the artist is clear that he is making an attempt to synthesize different kinds of art: his "Poems" - is both the poetry and the music is so highly valued by the artist direction of minimalist design and visual ...
According S.Katrana "Poetry, sculpture, painting, film, music - texts, images, videos and sounds - all part of the same whole. I always aim to the symphony of art, to unite different areas of creativity. "
A new collection of experimental poetry of the artist-inventor Sergei Katrana consists of four poems -

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«Heaven and Earth", "Rockets Sony", "The River and Honey", "End" and stihoprotokola "Playing the fool." The book contains many secrets, revealing that the reader gets the exquisite pleasure of the work done. Each of the poems is woven from scraps or whole works, as in "Rockets Sony" or of the words and phrases offered by the search engine Yandex, as in the poem "The River and Honey", or randomly plucked out of the unconscious string-pieces, the whole concept of chisloslovnye responsible for the "Sky" (in the "numerator") and "Earth" (in the "denominator"), an apt definition of Anatolia Osmolovsky, called - "a fraction poems" (in the poem "Heaven and Earth"), or keeping out toward each Friend verse rows in the poem "The End", causing the reader's mind the effect of "de ma per vu."
The content of the book is an attempt to combine the incompatible themselves, to glue the broken bowl of the universe in some new irrational manner.
In the apt definition of well-known literary critic, the essence of poetry Katrana in resolving the longstanding dispute between physicists and lyricists, the main conflict of Soviet literature of the middle and second half of the last century. Spiny dogfish decides it in favor of the unification of physics and poetry. Formula philosophical maxim is: "physics - is the poetry of the lyrics - is physics».

The book contains drawings of the author.
Initiate action: April 23. 18.30 - Opening of exhibition of Sergey Katrana "Cassowary"; 19.30 - Presentation of the book by Sergey Katrana "Poem."
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