Category: 2012

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Anna Frants. VISIONARY DREAMS #3258-61

December 18 – 29, 2012
Video and Audio Installations
Borey Art Center
St. Petersburg, Liteyny Prospekt 58
Vernissage on December 18 at 18:00

Anna Frants is a multimedia artist living in New York. She was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, where in 1989 she graduated from the Mukhina Academy of Arts, receiving a solid classical education. She then expanded her circle of interests by mastering new areas such as computer imaging and animation.. Continue reading “Anna Frants. VISIONARY DREAMS #3258-61”

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Cyberfest 2012 Saint Petersburg

By Bruce Sterling, WIRED

Address: The State Hermitage Museum, Dvortsovaya sq., 6-8, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Info: Over 80 artists, groups and scholars represent more than 20 countries in Russia’s largest annual New Media Festival, CYBERFEST. CYBERFEST was established in 2007; it is organized on the basis of CYLAND Media Art Lab, a cooperation project of PACT Charitable Foundation (Saint Petersburg, Russia) and the non-commercial organization Cyland Foundation Inc. (New York, USA).

CYBERFEST 2012: ‘AT HEAVEN’S DOOR’ / November 23-28, 2012
Held at: The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg State University, Creative Space Tkachi, Art re.FLEX Gallery, Frants Gallery Space among others

For the 6th Annual Edition, CYBERFEST 2012 explores the impacts of art and technology on society’s future through a 6 day multidisciplinary event titled ‘AT HEAVEN’S DOOR’. Exhibits, events and performances across St Petersburg’s top cultural venues present varied perspectives on the physical state of international New Media and the metaphysical directions it leads society.

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“DRAWINGS TO DOVLATOV”

Cyland Foundation Inc.
Invites you to attend
the opening reception for
“DRAWINGS TO DOVLATOV”
By: ALEXANDER FLORENSKY

Friday, April 20th 6:30PM-10:00PM
81 Wooster St. 4th Floor. New York, NY
rsvp@frantsgallery.com
Featuring readings by and about Dovlatov by writers:
Lara Vapnyar and Barry Yourgrau.
–The readings will begin at 8:00pm–

With photography by:
Nina Alovert, Leonid Lubianitsky, Mark Sherman, Natasha Sharymova

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In collaboration with The Joseph Brodsky Memorial Fellowship Fund

Special thanks to Natasha Sharymova, Elena Dovlatova,
Ksana Blank and New York Plus Plus

Writer Sergey Dovlatov (1941-1990) stands out in Russian literature for having placed his works on the border between fierce testimony and playful exaggerations about life. His independent way of thinking was fresh and reviving for many people during the Soviet times and it still is today. In 1979, after being expelled from the Union of Soviet Journalists and conscripted to military service, Dovlatov left Russia and moved to New York where he was free to publish his first two novels Kompromis (”The Compromise”) and Zapovednik (”The Nature Reserve”).

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ROMAN DREAMS by Elena Gubanova and Ivan Govorkov

Cyland Foundation Inc.
cordially invites you
to attend the opening reception
for the exhibition of works by
Elena Gubanova and Ivan Govorkov

ROMAN DREAMS

January 27th, 2012
6:00 -10:00 PM
FRANTS GALLERY SPACE (NY)
81 Wooster Street, 4th Floor

[По-русски см. ниже] This exhibition of the St. Petersburg artists is a result of their three-month stay as fellows of Joseph Brodsky Memorial Fund at the American Academy in Rome in 2010.

The luxurious abundance of marble and flying figures in Roman churches and cathedrals occasioned Ivan Govorkov to create a series of drawings Marble. “I am imbued with the museum figurative classics at the subconscious level. And this subconscious, devoid of goals or ideas, is revealed in my drawings”. The artist draws spontaneously and aimlessly, allowing his hand to glide over the paper on its own as if revealing the invisible. Several works by Ivan Govorkov from a different graphics series Arachne are, on the contrary, full of subjects from the mythology. The artist, who has spent so much of his life on the classic art, seems to reflect ironically on “excessiveness” of the baroque style.

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