Stella Art Foundation exhibition "The Scarecrow Collection"

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December 24, 2009 - February 14, 2010 in Stella Art Foundation (Moscow, Skatyatinsky lane 7) show Vladislav Efimov "The Scarecrow Collection. Vernissage on 23 December. Interactive installation "frightening collection" consists of several long horizontal boxes, divided into separate sections. Each section contains a particular object, which responds to touch the viewer to the glass. In turn boxes differ thematically: boxing with twitching of everyday objects; box with the old ( "art") bagatelles; boxing facilities, singing "angelic songs, etc. Title of the project should be understood literally. First, because the installation Vladislav Efimov - really diverse collection of objects. Secondly, because it is interactive. In other words, each of the artifacts collection responds to the close presence of the viewer. As soon as the final touches to the house of glass-box, which is home to the subject, he is frightened: scream, hide, or singing.
 

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The artist himself claims that he was interesting to play such a "system in which there is no clear division between the human world, a world of things and the world of ideas." And this refers to its source - the theory of the great Russian physiologist, Vladimir M. Bechterew, according to which "a variety of human actions can be associated with reductions pseudopodia such simple animals such as amoeba. And what we mean by higher reflexes, at the end all, is a derivative of "contractile" living matter in response to stimulation. The scientist believed that the basis of living organisms is a nervous current, rolling through the contraction of muscles and removal of members into mechanical energy. All the phenomena of the world, including the manifestation of the spirit and all the processes in living organisms, there are derivatives of the universal world of energy, so that this energy is a singular entity of the universe. This is the beginning of the world's energy and material and spiritual world, and potentially contains all things. "
Efimov - a big fan of the history of science, including that curious layer of ideas that today flatly called myths. This research consists of many archaic concepts, starting with the alchemical idea of the philosopher's stone and ending with the same Bekhterevsky universal "nervous shock". She gave birth and a lot of material phenomena, among which occupies pride of place of curiosities, which can be considered the beginning of the history of neo-European collectors. It recorded the state of human consciousness, for which there was no separation of the objects of artificial and natural origin. That is why Kunstkamera also attended the "masterpieces of art and nature."
In the installation Efimov reproduces kunstkamerny way to display. All collected his belongings - including natural artifacts, objects of applied art, household items and technical facilities - are enclosed in the same boxes, display and exhibited in a line. And animated by the will of the artist equated with living creatures, including, and with the audience.
Vladislav Efimov on the project.
"In the installation" The Scarecrow Collection "it was interesting to consider the system of the world, built on the Bekhterevsky principles. System in which there is no clear division between the human world, a world of things and the world of ideas. Boxes collection contains things endowed with freedom of the physiological decline in response to the touch, the initial feeling of freedom. World Energy, which said Bekhterev and Tsiolkovsky, a little stronger penetrates our "frightening collection. The world of things and the world of ideas are mixed here in the greater. Feeling and being scared, collectibles express themselves even verbally - babble, talk or sing. On the one hand there is a chaotic large glass world in which there will touch. On the other - a small orderly world gathered by someone collections, filled with the primary life force, where things are endowed with basic abilities to express their fear. Things here feel. "