Cyland Foundation Inc.
ARE PROUD TO PRESENT:
GOOD. NEW ART OF OMSK
in the LUDA Gallery, St Petersburg, Russia
5-17 DECEMBER, 2014
Mokhovaya 42, St Petersburg, Russia
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The exhibition GOOD. NEW ART OF OMSK presents artists:
Maria Alexandrova
Alexander Belousov
Renat Latyshev
Pavla Markova
Nikita Pozdnyakov
Anna Tereshkina.
Exhibiting unknown Omsk artists in St. Petersburg is, on the one hand, a step towards the decentralization of Russian artistic life, and on the other, an ordinary colonialist gesture, but this contradiction awakens in us the desire to show and observe what comes of it.
All these artists worked and are working far from the specialty of “contemporary artist” (but in fact – a manager, a seller of ritual goods, a teacher, a photographer in a “photo for documents” booth, etc.), because they have long given up on commercial opportunities arts, have become disillusioned with institutional assistance, but continue to do what they do. This creates in front of the viewer a kind of idealized superman, an ascetic artist who sculpts from bread crumbs. But the exhibition in St. Petersburg finally provides an opportunity to move away from this image that is boring to everyone.
The title – GOOD – suddenly coincided with one of the Civil Defense albums, which finally revealed our common root, which we walked on, which we are trying to break off (“meet Buddha – kill Buddha”) and which continues to nourish us.
Anna Tereshkina
The title of the exhibition is GOOD – like a poem by Mayakovsky. The authors are united by negative discourse, they feel painfully good, this unifying sadomasochistic moan sounds: “good!” – dirty roads, hawthorn tincture, – “hurt me even more.” Mayakovsky’s poem, written for the tenth anniversary of the revolution, marked the birth of a new ideology. Now a generation has arisen on its ruins, it sees what it sees, it sings of its fatherland, its republic.
Peter Bely