Socialist ritualism Sergei Shutov. Exhibition "First Mile". Krokin Gallery

[Vladimir]

After the feast recent retrospective Sergei Shutov (pictures here http://artinvestment.ru/invest/event...ei_shutov.html), any new thematic exhibition will not help create a sense of compression. Walls, whatever one may say, moved. Especially when the topic is selected so easy. We can say that even a niche, not mass audience.

The idea of the project "First Mile" the author described in his interview with the organizers, which can be read here - http://www.krokingallery.com/russian/current.html But in an interview Shutov defines the theme of "First mile "very broadly. If, however, rely on their own experience, the ideological core of the exhibition "First Mile" in Krokin Gallery - a mystical ritual role of the Red Square. From its place of execution, kulumbariem, stands for the guests and the most controversial cult construction - a pyramid with the embalmed body of the leader. To complete the charming picture is not enough unless scarabs, Anubis and sphinxes. However, here they come, sphinxes. Some large-scale exhibition in 1996 required the placement on the Red Square scenery with places of worship of different civilizations. Temples, pagodas, mosques, and with them the guardians of peace and the Egyptian pharaohs. With black and white amateur photo viewer looks at not only the "Islamic Project" (about the same time, the group realized AEC), but also projects the Chinese, Egyptian and God knows what else. It is amazing how it turns out that the total organic eclecticism to an enviable distance of only a single step.

From the standpoint of the strict adherence to the main theme of the exhibition is undoubtedly the "Living in a Leninist" - a huge stylized portrait of the Soviet Chief of the deceased with a tunnel without the promise of light at the end. Work understandably scary, the house is not such a place. And the main one they like - a picture of "Report mausoleum. Things certainly stops. It is a pity that its marginal Supremacist brevity, did not leave space for the application of a recognizable corporate identity of the artist. In the absence of other clues, this is the case when it comes easy to remember that the author is Shutov.

I would also like to draw the attention of collectors of the unusual schedule of a new cycle of "Letters". In the works Suprematist visual number skollazhirovan with evidence of time. Official pictures of the 1930's, the victory of the new religion over the communist vanguard. In the "letters" pictures of Stalin and Soviet functionaries ritually placed in the environment hated geometric compositions.


The exhibition runs until June 21, 2009. Works sold, but information on the price targets organizers for their own reasons decided not to make a public space.
  
In addition, see fotoreporazh of hindsight Sergei Shutov winter of 2009 http://artinvestment.ru/invest/event...ei_shutov.html

DSC_1739.JPG Rooks. 2009
DSC_1738.JPG Tribune I. 2009
DSC_1743.JPG Tribune II. 2009
DSC_1745.JPG live like Lenin. 2009 Жутковатый exhibit in the rapidly growing virtual collection of Eugene.
DSC_1748.jpg The report mausoleum. 2009 was a will, the home took it to the job.
DSC_1753.jpg place of a skull. 2009
DSC_1755.jpg right neighbor. 2009