Stella Kesaeva: "Form and gave way to the idea of ​​an image, text, discussing"

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What art should be shown in international forums? Of the artists who should represent the country at the Venice Biennale? Since two years ago, I became Commissioner of Russian pavilion, these topics are important in my life.

Responsibility for the way Russia will be represented at the Venice Biennale, is very high. Exhibition in the national pavilion reflect not only artistic, but also public, social and political attitudes. The complexity of the situation is that it is necessary to present the project, saying the international language understood by the international community.

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Last year, I decided to submit a draft Andrew Monastery and the group "Collective Action", which was the curator of a famous philosopher, theorist and professor at New York University, Boris Groys. I think we managed to surprise the world community. After all, we have shown a Russian art, which many were not even aware. Thanks Groys in the Russian pavilion was a story of artistic life in Russia, which has existed in parallel Soviet and later biased situation. Speech at the show was about a group of people, which originated from the conceptual art in Russia.

In 70-90s group "Collective Action" held dozens of shares, leaving the city - in Moscow, their artistic endeavors rather quickly stopped by police. Now understand why these people watching, it's hard. Most likely, this can be explained by the fact that they were not like the others, and thus seemed dangerous and suspicious people. In the Soviet Union "KD" have created a commune is free people. They traveled to Moscow and did everything we wanted: set up the tents, created from the works of art, inflatable balloons, dressed, went out and came into the forest, unwinding the rope on the field, and organized a mini-exhibition of unofficial art and putting up slogans. Here's one of them, which was reproduced in the Russian pavilion, "Strange, why I lied to myself that I never been here before and did not know anything about these places - it really is the same as everywhere else, only more acute feel it deeply and do not understand. "

The resonance of the exhibition "KD" was huge - we were getting enthusiastic responses from all over the world. Language of conceptual art in the second half of the twentieth century was the most common method of communication in the international art world. Today, the shape and image gave way to the idea, the text discussion.

The most relevant trend XXI century is increasingly called "participatory art" - the art of participation. Such, for example, taking place in Stella Art Foundation in Moscow and at the same time at a prestigious exhibition "Document 13" in Kassel project E-flux group called Time /Bank. This is a story about an alternative economy - society without money, where relationships between people are built on trust, and payment is made by their personal time. Art space created by a group of E-flux, invites you to become active participants in the project, its collaborators, empathize with him.

Similarly involved in the very essence and structure of the exhibition and the project will be Vadim Zakharov, who will represent Russia at the Venice Biennale in 2013. Representative of the next generation after the Monastery of Conceptual, Zakharov present an installation that combines the past and the future, that will be important and conceptually. A year later, we start to celebrate a century Russian pavilion - it was founded in 1913 by Alexei Shchusev, who designed many temples and churches in Russia, Kazan Railway Station in Moscow, Mausoleum, and began reconstruction NKVD building on Lubyanka Square.

I believe that today the most interesting in modern art - is humanist, where the fate of the people and history are intertwined in time and combined a powerful artistic statement. I hope all of this we will be able to show in 2013.
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PS Voobshe ne znaiu naskolko ee figura pridaet credibility ros.artu, no italianskie smi ne upustili vozmojnost "proehatsia" v statiah o Biennale v proshlom godu, chto mol, ranshe russkie bile izvestnie vodkoi, ikroi i mafiei, a seichas jenami nuvorishei, kotorie patroniruet iskusstvu.