Show Garunova Aladdin "Saints" in the AL Gallery

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Since April 19th on May 20, 2012 in the Gallery of Modern Art AL Gallery will be the first solo exhibition in St. Petersburg, Kandinsky Prize nominee in 2010 Aladdin Garunova "The Saints».

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The exhibition is supported by the Moscow Museum of Modern Art and the magazine "Dialogue of Art."

After a large-scale retrospective exhibition Garunova Aladdin in 2006 at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art for him is firmly entrenched the status of the inventor of a new ethnic (Dagestan), pop-art. But the global mass culture of pop art and ethnic tradition - connecting two bad idea. It is in this border zone "incompatible" and creates Aladdin Harun. New technology, industrial aesthetics, industrial materials are faced with finding the values ​​of the author's anthropological.

The exhibition "Saints" - a series of works by the artist, which continues to project "Zikr" predetermined line of his artistic quest in the development of contemporary Islamic art, about which much has been said recently. The term is still uncertain, but it certainly is possible to isolate the authors, that translate into his work conceptual, ethical and aesthetic qualities of the art of Islam, in the forms of the avant-garde and contemporary art. They brought in the European artistic tradition of its original outlook associated with the paradigms of Islamic culture.

If in earlier projects Garunova more interested in communication of religious traditions and modernity, the "Saints", he tried to interpret certain universal concepts. Here, the artist intensifies the contrast between East and West, the earthly and divine, ready-made and man-made things. According Garunova, he is interested in a purely cosmetic otherness. And the solutions it finds are always fresh, paradoxical, finding a plastic module, through which are impossible, it would seem, give rise to a combination of capacious and modern image.

In the large panels in the original rubber arks appear depicted silver paint saints, prototypes of which are frescoes of Theophanes the Greek. The artist was drawn harsh, ecstatic, dynamic freedom of these images, their intense psychological. Harun was not insisting on an orthodox discourse, it also explores a different religious tradition. Its Sufis, freed from all that prevents them from merging with God, reach the same state of enlightenment, that and the old hermit, Stylite in the Orthodox tradition. Ethical search through the reference to ritual practices meet the aspirations of today's human nature to adapt to the new urban reality.

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