Photo: Exhibition of nominees "Kandinsky Prize-2008"

[Vladimir]

Сообщение от fross

According to the principle of thousands of flies Markin holds a poll of visitors - can view on the results and handed over to?

It is very strange results are obtained. Generally, it is impossible to obey only the public opinion, and then we all sorvremennoe Arts tear and leave only the Arbat realists.

[LCR]

Сообщение от Vladimir

I think that it's not far off. "Metallica" and a symphony orchestra, "Stones" on the best scenes. Protest today things may become a classic. The scandalous work "Blue Noses" does not cause me nothing but smiles. But it should be understood that the people went to take a bold step with all the odds get into trouble. I. .. 20 years in the books on Russian art of turn of the millennium will be referred to "blue noses" (not to trahychem on the sofas, but at least with the "era of mercy"). Do you have any doubts about this?

That's what I wrote years ago about the exhibition "Sots Art" is one of the leading French critics, Olivier Sung. As always, there are factual errors, but in my opinion, in fact he's right, art, reduced to jokes, interesting.

Magazine «Télérama»

Chronicle Olivier Sung

In a letter dated June 23, 1970, Gustave Courbet refused the Legion of Honor, which was going to reward him, Maurice Richard, the then Minister of Fine Arts of the Second Empire, explaining his decision that "the state incompetent in the field of art." In Courbet, as we know, the reason to be dissatisfied with the official bodies involved in both the arts and politics of the country, because they disapproved of his paintings - and judging by the facial expression of our current president during his visit to Courbet exhibition at the Grand Palais , we can state that the situation has hardly changed. Hence, politics and art coexist bad. You could even say it - two very different concepts of peace: for politics, humanity - it is mass, and for art, a collection of personalities, politics, appeals to all, and art - each one of us.

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, however, that if a state incompetent in the field of art, the art of incompetent policy, as for the artists, their competence in the policy is the competence of ordinary simple citizen, no more and no less.
Stalin's Soviet Union is a historic example of the incompetence of the state of art. Idiotic realism, an imposed government, abruptly broke an incredible flowering of art, created by avant-garde - Malevich, Kandinsky, Larionov and Tatlin. Had to wait 1972 to see the protest movement, a social art, the Russian equivalent of Western pop art.
Naturally, social art was not attacking the consumer society, not existed in the USSR. His target, the objects of his sarcasm were some already rather tired of heroes (Lenin, Stalin) and the disintegration of the system. Playing the naive artists Sots Art pretending committed conformists, right up to the absurd - as Komar and Melamid have eaten "the truth" as the newspaper claimed on the distribution of "spiritual food", and Ilya Kabakov has created collages of images from the official stupid descriptive captions. As to Pierre Dac, they decided to laugh at all this. But this position appeals to the grotesque has not disappeared with the fall of the Berlin Wall. And now young artists use it - for example, the group Blue Noses, which created the video with the school humor - a cross between Dada and Monty Python. Comedy of the absurd where less subtle, it is a slap in the forehead, it has more tricks - in fact, it is more consistent with the vulgarity of our world. Harassment over the corpse of the Soviet Union, like the American art market, but not enough to make out of this humiliation of art. If we ignore the political dimension, shape Sots Art often banal, follow the path of greatest lightness (collages), coarse, close to the advertising and illustration.
Leonid Sokov, genus. In 1941 and lives in New York since 1980, one of osonovolozhnikov Sots Art, has the only undisputed talent of the sculptor. In one of his installations, sculptures shadow of the twentieth century (2000), under a glass cover reproductions of hundreds gathered miniatyurizivrovannye most important sculptures of the last century, Giacometti, Moore, Duchamp, Brancusi, etc.
As for Russian art, it stopped at the construction Tatlin, from 30-ies it is absent. In the state of art is not only incompetent, it is destructive.

[Евгений]

Idiotic statement .. Olivier Sen:

Сообщение от LCR

As for the Russian art, it stopped at the construction Tatlin, from 30-ies it is not.

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Сообщение от LCR

If we ignore the political dimension, shape Sots Art often banal, follow the path of greatest lightness (collages), coarse, close to the advertising and illustration.

  Here he is right .. banality.

[Евгений]

Working together since 1994.
Members of the Venice Biennale (2003, pavilion Russia),
Cetinjski Biennale (1997) and others
Works in the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery,
GRM, the Center Georges Pompidou,
Paris, MAK, Vienna, etc.
 

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A few years ago, products of the creative duo of Moscow artists were everywhere - on the cover disk of a cult group in New York Talking Heads, in the book of the leading writers of Russia Victor Pelevin, on stands the largest fairs in the world. In countless imitators and proliferate. Apparently, the rehabilitated Vinogradov and Dubosarsky rough painting style of the Stalin era has allowed many artists do not shy inflexibility of his artistic education he received from academics of socialist realism. "Seasons of Russian painting" performed a duet to the opening of a new version of the exhibition of art of the twentieth century in the Tretyakov Gallery. For a fairly conservative institution Vinogradov and Dubosarskiy invented low-key picture. In the early 2000's, they stripped the Russian classics - Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Akhmatova, Tsvetaeva - for the project "Total Art". "Seasons" is not shocking, and reconcile, unite the conflicting styles and pictures. Here, Stalin and Voroshilov were looking into the distance next to the poor of linen Surikov "Boyarynia Morozova, a sad lyric 1960 shows the" Black Square "by Malevich, and a fascist" downed AS Deineki falls into the river with paintings Wanderers. All masterpieces are given equal opportunities. "Seasons" - striking rethinking of socialist realism, which was built on the selection of quotations from the "correct", "folk" artists of the XIX century. Now Vinogradov Dubosarskiy extended to the twentieth century sense of happiness bestowed unpretentious, but the realistic painting.
  http://www.kandinsky-prize.ru/hronik...ov-dubosarskii

[Мунк]

For me, the product B and D are curious except as "Guessing": verification of knowledge - in any good or not artists are at loggerheads this landscape or the characters. In my opinion their work - the most banal version of postmodernism, worn-out one of his characters (quotational) to boredom. Maybe this is a variant of crossword puzzles?

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Сообщение от passers-103835

I once again wonder about the criteria for art and, most importantly, the extent permissible in art. Do not you think that sexual intercourse imitation of Stalin and Hitler, to put it mildly, somewhat beyond the scope of "permitted to open display" (I stress that no call to ban and close around my place). After all, nobody comes (so far, at least) to organize a performance of "Leningrad" in Tchaikovsky Hall, or Alexander Novikov in the Conservatory.

On this issue, I have an example, I was deeply zadevshy. It was
2005. Central area 1st Moscow Biennale was then the Museum. Lenin. At the entrance of two exhibited a video work "Blue Noses" - one that is now in the museum Markina (devour, RSR-countertop and consum-Hsia) and the second - Ilich, who spun like a spindle (as it turns over in his grave). For example, about Lenin - the nail on the head: in the subject and is conceptually, if we recall that it was for the museum. Well, first? But I felt very bad from one Dutch national project, which was exhibited at the third floor. The inscription on the mysterious door urged all attendees to participate in creating works of art. People come out giggling and embarrassed. Guessing about the trick, I will not go. Then, coming out of the museum, he came round on the street (ie on the Red Square) and saw this PI - Frozen (it was winter), a huge mass of ice stalactites muddy brown color, hanging from a wooden hut, made by from the window 3rd floor boards through the space of the courtyard of the Museum. And you say that anyone "did not occur. It's not even that it is - Museum im. Lenin, and that - as it did the Red Square!
It is strange to me and the fact that this genital-fecal topic for so long inspired "current" artists.

[qwerty]

Сообщение от LCR

As to the Russian art is to the design of Tatlin, from 30-ies it is not.

Speaking about Russia's contribution to world art, it is unfortunately true.

[Vladimir]

Сообщение от qwerty

As for the Russian art, it stopped at the construction Tatlin, from 30-ies it is absent.

Speaking about Russia's contribution to world art, it is unfortunately true.

A more recent contribution to world art can still be regarded as conceptualism, especially the ideas of Ilya Kabakov, who was the only Russian artist is sincere zhaluyut in the West, and recently in Russia.

[qwerty]

From the perspective of the world community's simple: open any reference book "The Art of the Twentieth Century", published in Greece, whether in Norway or France, or anywhere. Because there is a Russian Malevich, Matyushin, Stepanova, Rodchenko, Ender, a dozen names of Russian avant-garde, nor Konchalovsky, neither Pimenov, not to mention classical academicians of social realism or widely we have discussed with Otroshchenko Yablonska, world culture does not recognize that and understand: nothing new they have not created, they ruined his talent in the province, these are the sad facts ...

[Кирилл Сызранский]

Сообщение от qwerty

Ender,

Excuse me, but who's generally something?

[Евгений]

The focus of the artist - single people in the conditioned space.

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Zvezdochetova makes it obvious non-obvious lack of something important. Her paintings disturb the viewer a myriad of issues: for each image guessed a story that is intriguing and elusive, not giving an answer. It is slipping away compels the viewer to decipher, but it lacks any ties. Perhaps the case in nomadic characters, wandering from one picture to another? And their icon, the archetypal wanderer Don Quixote (to quote the figure of Picasso) - is the key to the series? Or should we examine the terrain in the vicinity of the beach? Some paintings come in pairs, as if offering a plot development - "Selina" and "The Dead Butterfly", "Three Sisters" and "Liliputin. From this arises a feeling (and it enhances the rich outdoor color) that can come close to unraveling. The idea of the project is to push the viewer with his own amazement, to make him think about the fundamental nature of the incompleteness of our understanding. "Missing link" - is a project of self-perception of modern man.
http://www.kandinsky-prize.ru/hronik.../zvezdochetova