Retrospective Andrew Monastery on Gogol, 10

[Vladimir]

The official part can be read here. I will focus on experiences. Last year, Andrew Monastery - a key figure of Moscow Conceptualism - was 60. The exhibition is expected. But the question was very simple.
 
How can I show the Monastery? It's still not a painter, a philosopher, a generator of ideas and meanings. And the purpose of capturing them in a physical exhibition of Conceptual art was not put. Product - it's documentation and stock performances, photographs, video, text, music. It's 10 volumes of rides out of town. " How does all this present in the exhibition space - a question.

The organizers came up with this: installation and video (they can be counted on the fingers), have provided huge texts - all the walls. As a result, get out of reading the audience not be able to - verbal meanings pervade all space, the intonation is guessed. There is a feeling that the project is certainly a bonus - the professional awards organizers can not be avoided. Guests especially congratulated curator of the exhibition - Teresa Maviku.

Central product of the exhibition - installation Fountain. Impressive mnogosmyslovaya thing. And now a curse for the cleaners. At first glance, this deconstruction of the famous Fountain of Friendship of Peoples in the Soviet Era. Only the "republic" are back to the viewer. And instead of a pool of water - the flour on the floor, milled ideas. Installation - interactive. Spectators with pleasure "soaked his feet in the fountain with the flour and pass it to the museum's sneakers around the room. This is something. The second of the special favorite installations - a branch on the tape - sound generator is unwound tape. In the halls of many screens, many texts, many photos and lots of flour. To digest all the audience are likely to need more than one approach. Fortunately, the exhibition will last a long time - until January 27.

The exhibition looked Vladimir Bogdanov, AI