Gallery XL - Exhibition Michael Kosolapova MILF

[Евгений]

Mikhail Kosolapov
MILF
Installation
c 5 March to 4 April
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Mannequins, dolls and other sham dismemberment became a permanent props of contemporary art since the times of Dadaists and Surrealists. Even when artists began to crush and dismantle its constituent parts, these likeness rights, not even to see what they have inside, but then, not without malice in order to show the world that there is nothing inside. Despite this venerable historical pedigree, this method, popular to this day, however, retains a distinct spirit of trash, that is some discomfort even in the contemplation of these works, but from the need to come to terms with the fact that it gives you a kind of childish sadistic pleasure.

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Michael Kosolapov fully aware of the uncertainty of the pleasure - the very name of his new installation refers to the shameful pleasures of internet porn. Representation of male and female, which is dedicated to the artist's new project, reproduce brutally politically incorrect gender cliches, including the social, equally offensive to both sexes. Women - is not only conventional and not erotic "form", but also cheap and greedy shopping on goods markets (where originally used to install the dummies). Men - intellectual activity, degraded to the stultifying office sitting at the computer, Rat Race office work and office doing nothing for games, chat rooms, social networks and pornographic websites: I Click, Therefore, there is. One may well assume that the installation presents the images of male and female, are generated by mutual hatred of the sexes. He - Mouse thinker, it is - a set of cheap parts, however, is clearly insufficient for a complete set. However, it is actually even sadder. Plastic breasts and ass, which bubble walls of the gallery - not even materialize fantasies generated by the Internet Office erotomaniac: on the screen of your monitor, he sees only its own image. Well before the hands of female mannequins, they are in any case unable to reach the "mice" to make fused with netbooks helpless cyborg find female characters even though in the virtual porn world.

Irina Kulik
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