It goes tobacco production was taken out of the city, according to environmentalists, several years ago. Now it is located on the left bank of the Don in the Western industrial zone. Former tobacco factory building in the city center (a monument of industrial architecture) Agrokom group, which includes Open Society "Don tobacco" does not know how to use, and therefore ordered even relevant studies.
The first floor is occupied by a whole block building already occupied by numerous shops. Third floor owner Agrokom, Duma deputy Ivan Savvidi during Biennale gave artists, inviting them to pay only for utilities.
Speaking at the opening ceremony of the Centre for Contemporary Art "tobacco factory", Ivan Savvidi noticed that the first time in the walls of the factory, the traditional industrial production, is such an event.
"To a certain extent - the entrepreneur - is a reorganization of the environment and the human soul. We are professional tobacconist, we assume this event the compensation of the physical damage that causes human health".
As commissioner of the Biennale, told to Alexander Lishnevskaya, height of walls in these shops is five meters, which can accommodate a variety of products. A member of the organizing committee Biennale Tatiana Neklyudova sure that the visitors center to experience the shock of cultural studies, realizing that the current - not so traditional. "However, the actual art does not cancel the tradition, and took from it the best developed in parallel to the plane," - emphasizes Tatiana Neklyudova.
Director, National Centre for Contemporary Art (Moscow) Leonid Bazhanov believes that contemporary art is for those who seek novelty. "We need to" digest "the new form, at least, to know them: after all, provincialism is a synonym for ignorance. Today Moscow redeems before the province that has robbed her as the best artists," - says Leonid Bazhanov.
He remembered the Rostov artists who, having left in the first capital, today the glory of the Russian contemporary art (the so-called "contemporary art"). Among them Valery Koshlyakov - co-founder of Artists Association "Art or Death", a representative of the so-called southern Russian wave in the Moscow art scene. His works from the "Album traveler" presented at the Biennale as part of "Seance Communication".
One of the most significant projects, imported from Moscow, its curators, members of the Russian Academy of Arts, Sergei Denisov and Ivan Kolesnikov, was the project "The sleeping area-2. He converted, according to the authors, in a photo exhibition presented at the "tobacco factory". The pictures portrayed outdoor installation, compiled in a typical dormitory suburb of Moscow (near the metro station "Volga") from the usual household items, transfigured the creative will of different artists.
As told by one of visitors' tobacco factory, these projects (and the "factory" are seven of them) had to be put together in Rostov least because so many people, both here and now, do not happen at all shows in Rostov for the year . According to the correspondent at the opening of the Centre for Contemporary Art at its exhibition was visited by several thousand people.
Recall that the first South-Russian Biennale of Contemporary Art in Rostov-on-Don began work on May 21. It involves not only Russian but also Estonian, Ukrainian and Belarusian artists. The work of the first South-Russian Biennale will run until June 24. Previously, answering the question of "Caucasian knot" of "inscribing" the Biennale in the cultural program EU-Russia Summit to be held in the Don capital from May 30 to June 2, art director Alex Black Eyed said that "in this regard negotiations" .
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27.05.2010, 05:54
Opening of the Centre for Contemporary Art "Tobacco Factory
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