Anatoly Osmolovsky "Races-partitioning"

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[QUOTE][FONT="Georgia"]the Gallery "Triumph" is a new project by Anatoly Osmolovsky, Moscow's famous actionist, curator, founder of the educational project for artists and art historians "Base".

The project "distribution division" consists of two parts: a series of nine busts "the Head of the dead revolutionaries" and the new bronze composition "Ukrainka".

A series of "Heads " is a panorama of the world revolutionary movement by periods. This group of sculptures arranged in triads, forming a sequence of "founder-successor-opponent" (Marx, Engels, Bakunin, Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, Mao Zedong, Che Guevara, Ho Chi Minh). The project was launched two years ago and from that moment was partially presented at the Ukrainian Biennale (2012) and the 55th Venice Biennale (2013) in the framework of the joint project of Paul Althamer and Anatoly Osmolovsky Convergence of Parallels". The exhibition "Races-partitioning" this series for the first time will be presented in full.

The second part of the exhibition - bronze composition "Ukrainka". Making together the different parts of the bodies of the most beautiful women in Europe and Russia, the artist represents the ideal image of female beauty. Similar experiments image of ideal beauty was also carried out by the ancient painter Zeuxis, who wrote portrait of Helen, connecting it features the five most beautiful Athenian women, and later, in the Renaissance, Raphael.

A kind of dialogue with the art of the past is the main theme of the works of the artist. Turning to plastic artist explains the necessity to return to the main art forms (in this case - to the sculpture), lost its original meaning in the modern mixed media and a variety of creative practic@

25.12.2014 - 11.01.2015 Gallery "Triumph"