Miracles. New Art from London (continued)

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The second exhibition, staged in the new exhibition space Baibakov Art Projects, this time not devoted to the artists of Moscow, and London. Of course, the fashionable and relevant. More than two dozen authors should provide the freshest art trends of the cosmopolitan British capital. Artists here are very different - in fact, the diversity of cultural patterns and has become the main concept of the exhibition. One of the frontmen - winner of the Turner Prize last year, Mark Leckie.
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Apologize to the pork carcass, listen to the quiet piano and feel dizzy in the cube can be at the exhibition "Wonders. New Art from London "in the gallery Baibakov Art Projects.

Exhibition space at the factory "Red October" was opened as recently as late last year. Began Baibakov Art Projects gallery with the exhibition of young Russian artists "Invasion: rejection, but further plans were drawn by a fully internationalized. Now they are gradually being implemented, despite the global difficulties. The current tour, "Miracles" include the work of 22 authors in London - the most fashionable and trendy in the British capital, as the organizers insist. In fact, maybe not the most, most, but still not the last.

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And certainly promising.

There is no theme or concept for this show is not declared - apparently deliberately so as not to fixate on one thing over another. Acting on the principle of "let a hundred flowers bloom", curated by Maria Baibakov, Kate Sutton and Nick Hakvort company gathered the most heterogeneous, which would express the spirit of the city, nicknamed "Vavilondonom. Therefore, video art side by side here with the painting and installation - with a performance.

Latter genre vernisazhnoy riveted the attention of the audience the most. First, people tend to easily react to live action, and secondly, there is still looked fairly radically. In its performance under the optimistic title "Scavengers" artist Eloise Fornieles very peculiar denounced "violence and consumerism.

Above the piles of clothes piled on the hook hanging pig carcass, near which the lady periodically ritually strip.

Rather, striptease is only the first phase, and then the reverse is true - that is, putting the next pile of rags. In the process, Eloise took little notes from the public by apologizing to the murdered pig and deposited it into the carcass, making cuts imposing knife. The performance lasted a very long time and a variety of drama did not differ, but all seem to be liked. In pigs, of course.

But before her as an apology.

Nearby performed one more performance: in front of a piano, devoid of strings, sat contracted by pianist with LEDs on the fingers, and enthusiastically banged on the keys. The intention of the author, David Birkin, meant a long-standing scientific experiments, during which the lights on the fingers of the experimental permit to track the trajectory of production on a film movements. If shorter, the artist here stebetsya over science, which if everyone is able to explore and optimize. There are piano keys and on the three-channel video by Idris Khan, where the different perspectives tracked performance of Schubert's sonatas.

Waft meditative (if not yawn) video works intended to "rustle" Kirk Palmer. On the big screen in the leisurely rhythm of swaying in the wind clumps of trees - the only thing that happens. After the pacification of the most experienced times will be cheer in the draft Conrad Shawcross "slow arc in the cube. Climbing inside the white plywood structure, the viewer is faced with a kinetic laser rushing in the cell, making the walls sweeping cavalcade striped shadows. Dizziness is guaranteed. Although it is difficult to attribute this feeling to the category of the aesthetic, but it definitely tones.

Almost all the exhibits here are perceived as attractions.

And in this sense, nothing particularly new or "miraculous" is not offered. Modern art has long fallen into the channel of interactivity and production "kunshtyukov" varying degrees of entertaining. Formed their traditions and even certain schools, each of which work out the original lines. If you dive into the subject with the head, not enough material for one's dissertation. But the circus is still there a little more than fine art.

Kontemporari Arta amuse or shock the more important than forcing the viewer to empathy and reflection. But when it seemed that it was the ability of such "miraculous of all miracles».