Kirill Shamanov

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Media artist, curator and art critic Cyril Shamans, author of "Station" drift "", "0 rubles", "CU - Single currency of the CIS", "GOP ART "..

Kirill, tell us about their latest projects. With all this, in your opinion, "a successful project?

Last luck, I think this is my curatorial debut at the exhibition GOP-ART, at the Youth Biennale in the summer of 2007-th, this project, as well as "Zero rubles, strongly captivates audiences both at conceptual approaches, and they say, personally and very interesting now to watch his development. Especially interesting situation around my pictures from St. Petersburg ahueli, which is now available as prints on T-shirts and sent to Moscow, where he extends the circle of Moscow oligarchs friendly associates one of them. I am preparing to publish a book of stories. Recently moved the studio to the studio "Nepokorennykh" - in the New Year's days pulling the debriefing.

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What is now "successful project"? Here the word "good" as the taste and color - no friends. If it is about the artistic and historical components of art, I am pretty projects, exploring the intermediate area between traditional and modern culture. Today, when many revolutionary illusions once again fell from the eyes, a renaissance of traditional culture nourishes her long-awaited synthesis of modernist culture, contemporary.

In still interesting processes take place with the concepts of "virtual" and "reality". Incredible erections in virtual spaces more densely translates into a familiar reality. You see, not only we master virtual reality, but it osvaevaet reality of our country: to speed up our communication, it splits our consciousness, which is more disciplined subordinate dance fashion simulacrum. Manipulating consciousness and television totalitarianism today - the norm, and this is no reason for protest, as they consider corrupt leftists and naive youths, and excellent material for creative decoupling artist hands. Yes - capitalism, yes - no money and something still there, but if you choose the exact solutions for clearly defined schemes, then using the media situation is easy to unscrew the inside out.

Tell me a few words about your curatorial work in FotoDepartament. Once this was unexpected, I suppose.

Draft Julia Yusma "Artificial age" with me as a curator, was in general a research position. Julia young author feels for himself and his work powerful influence of the modern world. The fact that Jean Baudrillard describes, referring to the "car mode", today finally become a habitat and youth, brought up in this situation and coming from her, in spite of infantilism, and klipovosti rasfokusirovannosti consciousness since childhood raped contradictory fetishes today increasingly aware of the need statements. Stop frame, contemplation, flowing into a close glaring, glaring close of twilight sleep, I'm sympathetic to Julin work and in life itself.

How do you see the current situation of contemporary art in St. Petersburg and in Russia as a whole?

The situation with the art in St. Petersburg rotten. Professional galleries in the past era of "Putin, Petroleum glamor" almost does not appear, the three that have never reached the serious international level. All hopes of museums, the Hermitage which is now in the project "Hermitage 20-21" working young team and the "Division of the latest trends", whose leader, Alexander Borovsky Davidovich, was perhaps the main News-maker of the year 2008. However, it is all in Moscow, to us it's like to zhirafa.V Russia as a whole, I think the crisis will make sobering in some very hot heads, and reduced budgets, sales and many of the "young artists" strongly replenish the labor exchange of designers and decorators interiors, and a reduction in the market! After the crisis will lead to frustration over top traumatic, more radical art. The rate of increase is inversely proportional saying budget cuts in production.

Why now, many young (and not so) artists are unable to say anything about his work? This is, in general, a normal situation?

The problem is the lack of reflection, the young, even talented ones, too many believe in, why not share with us the exact movement of thought and a brush, a pink syrup its "chuystv and psychedelic iridescent cream of their brains - the resulting high-quality consumer and fragmentary erudition. There's really two podtecheniya one mass - it is stupidity, laziness, and nihilism to the knowledge and experience of previous "people like you, these can not only artists but also for people not to take it, because their existence is like an animal consumption and licking their precious genitals; and the other just gives hope - when the guys in the grasp of the spirit of love and the call, first try (sometimes unsuccessfully), but these are usually less focused because of the greater breadth of range, you must read a lot, naprobovatsya, narefleksirovat what is experience and so they hatch a little later, but for all - this is for them something and the future. We must learn on the one hand, be open, but, on the other side - rational, audited their statements, especially if these allegations are made in works of art, be open to criticism. If you do this, you do not, you can and do several shows, but "Word" in his art does not say.

It is important to remember that art is not just a show (excuse podypendrivatsya) and sale (the money and another reason to show off), but also a dialogue with the viewer, critic, another artist, even with Vasya Siskinym who came to the banquet and it must be nice!

Which of the young artists, in your opinion, really cool, or close to it?

Lot of good young, I think we are now at the entrance to the long-awaited rotation, in a generational change. Most, Kallima, Gaponov, very young Sapozhnikov, Yushchenko and the Dow, your obedient servant concept covers the front ... I am very interested in the stratum of youth which is not soluble in political ideas, but thank God does not trust anyone, like the good old 80th, I think it narostat will, in general, my prediction - this is fashion for the new bad, but not new Protestants, and the punks and nihilists.

Your attitude to the latest art scandal - discussion art critics at openspace at the Kandinsky Prize? This is exactly the same to the current situation.

My attitude to prizes Kandinsky. Say there were some that intrigue and even corruption, then anyone who is accused of "fascism", etc. I'm for giving me this award Gintovtu.Ne whichever Gutov good artist, not cool like a flashback can not eat, but he may very well and deserves the Order of the world of the Marxist Communist International for a successful financial year, but ...

In general, today's left, bonuses Гинтовта which was struck and actively append to it the label "fascist" in this incredibly vulgar. I recently had with my friend with the name of Chechen, my girlfriend and one mulatto Ryazanka artist on this scandal zashol conversation "Ryazan", apparently naively unprepared for obchitavshis head Tar texts, ask us about our attitude to this situation with the "fascist Prize ? And when my friend said that he - "for, because the leftists are boring and corrupt" and an African friend, too, asked why actually not? Ryazan girl, following their teachers, then, is accusing us of fascism ... Clinic

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