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If convinced - so human. Ecstatic ekzotizm in the works of Alexei Belyaev-Gintovt

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Dmitry Hankin: "... to be honest, it ... in the [art Belyaeva-Gintovt] is such an important big game, a hoax. .. If you look at it impartially - it revels. But she is the seriousness with which he performs all and there is a fundamental grain in this vast country happenings, which he plays. "

Alexander Borovsky: ".. all of this activism is part of an art project. .. So who, in fact, may take as a guide to the political fight poster" Our boot is holy? "Or ..." We'll treat you yadom?. .. Question for an artist - did not play. ... Somehow, I'm sure ...- he did not play. "

Viktor Misiano: "... When we are dealing with an artist who appeals to some radical ideas, it is very important to understand in what way these ideas hu dozhnik resides. Because there is a tradition where the artist" plays "a supporter of any radical ideas, although not to them largely involved. ... Knowing Belyaev and all phases of his work, I believe that he would rather manipulate ideas ... "


1. Fascism

As the quotation above, in response to accusations of "fascism" Alexei Belyaev, decided to distance his work from the political art activism. Declaring that political references BG should not be taken seriously, his supporters, however, do not explain - what exactly is she a "game" being waged by the artist, and how it can be interesting contemporary art community. At the same time, it is clear how the work of BG in the interest of the Eurasian Youth Union (whose stylist, illustrator, he is), as well as representatives of the conservative-minded part of the state apparatus (see his latest project "Haji Ahmad Haji").

Try to understand. Obraschenie BG conservative issues to explain his involvement in the Petersburg neoakademizmu in the coordinates of which feature meinstrim, whose place is taken by "actualism (" avant-garde, futurism, conceptualism, postmodernism ") is outdated dogma, to be replaced which should come a new" conservative -revolutionary "vanguard. This is - this game aesthetically, a form of protest against the whole "ugly" and "soulless", all that is in terminax ideologues of the Third Reich called "degenerative art". It should probably be accusations of "fascism Timur Novikov (Kovalev), and then BG. Remains unclear, only the fact of BG in the nominees of the contest Kandinsky, named in honor of the artist exhibiting Entartete Kunst (1937).

2. New Russian Empire

As long as conservatism BG has nothing to do with his original political views, try to determine - what place it occupies in the artistic context. In the opinion of the former dealer of the artist, A. Yakut (alias Maya Kononenko), the art of BS is a development neoakademizma in the new Russian Empire. " This, in particular, indicates excessive eclecticism "powerful imagery" of his works, combining "the tradition of Orthodox iconography from the Russian avant-garde trends, and constructivism, and totalitarnaya classical nature of the Soviet Bolshoi style - with a formal" miraculous "American Pop Art."

Fluor expressed "psychedelic" works Belyaeva emphasize in the article on "Novonovosibirske and Turkin & Misiano. It also indicates and Alexander Borovsky. In rabote "Etatichesky aestheticism", dedicated to the project "Rodina-daughter", he wrote: "The authors really hit upon something essential ... Namely - eclecticism, which lies ... in the most demand for ... ideology. What are the terms of this eclecticism? First of all - megalomania, the urge for a superhuman scale, ... memories of the golden days of the Soviet empire ... the inevitable amnesia, forgetfulness of cannibalistic ... Here - memories of Soviet science fiction, both technically and ideologically progressivist wing. Finally, I would have added a bizarre mish-mash of popular to this day marginal historical psevdorekonstruktsy (yoke is not the yoke, Rome is not in Rome, Byzantium, as our all). Such here predydeologicheskaya mixture was heated in the boiler. Well, the authors came to the interesting, atavistic rooted in the psychology of Russian elites substance - the version of the imperial Neo-Classicism.

All - to a point. Only the end of a little blurred. This eclecticism - a craving for megalomania and so on. hit upon long before. After all, this is not a neo-classicism as such - with its pedantic spirituality, the desire for purity of style - but on its last stage, period of "decay" cold dictatorship (Napoleon) Empire. In the words of I. Grabar, Empire bears the degeneration of classic forms, emasculation of their true historical and cultural meaning, spiritual content. Typical for the classical soft and sophisticated colorful harmony is replaced with bright, cutting the eyes - red, blue, white (from BG this - zloty, black, red). In place of a consistent expression of narrative and elegance of the narrative comes historicism, normativity, rationality, decorative, tektonichnost open eclecticism. Just as the Empire could combine the "Pompeian", Egyptian, Roman and even a "Turkish" motives of the BG can accommodate all of the above, as well as quotations from constructivism syurrealizma, art of the Third Reich (sometimes reaching the absurd, as here, or here), social realism, pop art, and so on. and so on.

3. Pop Art

Communication Arts BS with pop art, noted by, inter alia, Yakutia above, but is not so obvious. If, through appropriation and multiple copying of Pop artists questioned the role of the author's work, the BG the same manner accentuates the invention of new "man-made" methods of reproduction of foreign works (photographs, drawings), by adding to the already available techniques - methods of "hand print" and ball ruchkek (BG, Molodkin). It is noteworthy that in this way he is trying to contemporary art in the bosom of tradition "and" canon ". Although, in reality, even in the presence of easily available for copying (pen), the artist often can not get how some compelling images. Receive repetition of the same image also has a BS purely decorative.
 
4. Etatichesky aestheticism

Meanwhile, Mr. Borovsky, denotes creativity BG term "etatichesky aestheticism. Apparently, this is related to the amount used by the "images of statehood, even imperial, with a different clan or tribe: the Colosseum, the Roman sculpture of a she-wolf (Imperium), the Kremlin, the Doge's palace, mausoleum, sarcophagus of Lenin, Red Square, Mukhina's statue" Worker and Farmer, "the Kremlin stars," Portrait of Yu Mishima, a modern combat aircraft, something more ... "

This term carries with it an insurmountable contradiction. Himself in his "aestheticism" suggests the predominance of aesthetic values of the ethical and social, while the "statism" - the positioning of public interest above all others. I would like to offer a possible alternative. "Ecstatic ekzotizm? Or "psychedelic statism", "etatichesky ekstatizm", "exalted esoteric", "esoteric pan-conformist"? Possible options.

5. Cmeshnoy project

Perhaps, one of several projects beyond fatal to BG eclectic "genre". The last series of his man-made reproductions of "Haj Ahmad Haji", dedicated to Haji Ahmad Kadyrov, father of current leader of Chechnya, contains a number of works made in sotsrealistskoy easily recognizable manner. "The works - portraits of Kadyrov in different angles: the statesman, religious leader, father and grandfather, Chechnya and Russia's citizens." Slimness of the narrative then breaks here and there glimpses of the huge image of an eagle, as well as the time of recurrence of the same work in different color schemes. A common version of the creation of the exhibition is the belief that "... the artist made a funny project to ensure that it saw". By the way - if not gold, and "hand print", then all it would have looked really funny. And so - no other purpose than self-praise, BG is not intended. The question is only to choose their subject of ... History of Chechnya - a history of fighting with Russia's empire and the hatred of the Russian people, while the elder Kadyrov, known for his calls for jihad: "If every Chechen killed in 150 Russian, we win."

Here it would be appropriate to ask about the ethical side of this "joke". The answer, I think, to look at Russia's corridors of power, which, as a sounding board, and pedlagaet their services to the conservative-revolutionary, a persecutor, "actualism, artist Belyaev-Gintovt.

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