George Ostrecov, the exhibition "Apocalypse"

[Евгений]

Opening November 26, 2009

The artist, like the philosopher, offers the essence of things so that people can better understand himself and be free, that is saved from decay, which torments man. Seraphim of Sarov said "Save myself and thousands around you shall be saved" - this phrase of the great Russian saint became very popular and almost went into use in conventional
speech.

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I rethought it and translated into modern art. As the situation in post-modernist art object does not exist, it is a phenomenon most absurd market - the art market. The identity of the artist is torn between the materials: the ephemeral reality and concrete reality, death. People have long been engaged in embalming the dead, since only after death for the deceased and started real life. Life as a preparation for death, is the same samobalzamirovanie.

By creating a sublime artist alienates the viewer from the earth, that is, from death, giving him the utmost freedom to die for the world of sense, and to rise in the spiritual world. The product in this case only a means to connect thought and will in this direction.

Samosakralizatsiya, of course, this self-portrait, the artist strives to leave a memory, to understand himself and through this a thousand. All of humanity is contained in one Adam, that is in me, too. We are created in the image and likeness and carry this image of similarity have no idea, this is a riddle, thinking that we shall be saved from death. I have the memory of Adam and his crime, that is, I have the memory of death, therefore, display their image and body parts on display as a reminder of the locusts that God sent to enlighten the Egyptians, the brass serpent Moses lifted up to save the tribe of Israel from the invasion of creeping serpent, Adam, to be released from the broken doors of Hell, and a global system of governance of the New Government.

George Ostrecov

The exhibition is open 26/11 - 18/12/2009
Guelman Gallery
http://www.guelman.ru/gallery/moscow/apocalypse/