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The Night of Contemporary Art in Russia

Cyland Foundation Inc.

ARE PROUD TO PRESENT:
The Night of Contemporary Art

On June 29 St. Petersburg will host the Night of Contemporary Art – a large-scale program of contemporary Russian art and exhibition projects. The opening will take place at 19:00 on the island of New Holland, where CYLAND MediaArtLab will present its new project DEBRIS – a light installation by Pavel Ivanov and Alexey Grachev, reminiscent of anti-tank obstacle defense turned into glowing stars.

At 22:00 and 2:00 at Anna Frants Gallery Space (Rubinstein street, 23, apt. 39) CYLAND video archive curator Victoria Ilyushkina will present a program on “Jonas Mekas – an American avant-garde cinema hero” with a lecture and a rare documetary sreening “Jonas in the desert” about the New York independent film director and archivist of the American experimental art films.

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Time Keeper multi-media project at the Youth Centre of the State Hermitage Museum

As part of the Art in Progress programme at the Youth Centre of the State Hermitage Museum at the General Staff building on 29 May, the Time Keeper multi-media project was opened. An international group of famous artists, representatives of New Media Anna Frants, Alexandra Dementieva, Aranaud Jacobs and Koen Theys showed their work on the eternal theme of the transient nature of time in the life of Man. Continue reading “Time Keeper multi-media project at the Youth Centre of the State Hermitage Museum”

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“CAPITAL OF NOWHERE” exhibition at Venice Biennale

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CAPITAL OF NOWHERE

New Media Artworks by Anna Frants, Elena Gubanova & Ivan Govorkov, Marina Koldobskaya, Vitaly Pushnitsky, Peter Belyi, Alexander Terebenin, Petr Shvetsov, Ludmila Belova, Alexandra Dementieva, Kurvenschreiber Collective

A collaboration between Cyland Foundation Inc., CYLAND MediaArtLab (St. Petersburg, Russia) & Centro Studi sulle Arti della Russia (CSAR, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italy). Curated by Silvia Burini & Matteo Bertelé (Assistant Curator)

Vernissage: May 31 (7 PM)
Dates: May 27 – July 10, 2013 (Press Preview: May 27)

Venue / Site: CFZ Ca’ Foscari Zattere / Cultural Flow Zone
Address: Zattere, Dorsoduro 1392, 30123 Venezia (Boat stop: Zattere)

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SIMPLE RULES

Youth Center at the State Hermitage Museum,
Cyland Foundation Inc.,
Kolodzei Art Foundation (NY)
With the support of CYLAND Media Art Lab
Within the scope of the project:
“Cutting-Edge Art of St. Petersburg. A Retrospective”.

SIMPLE RULES
From private collections of St. Petersburg art collectors
Curator: Leonid Frants
January 23-27, 2013

Artists: Nikolai Akimov, Aleksandr Arefiev, Aleksandr Baturin, Viktor Burtas, Richard Vasmi, Solomon Gershov, Yevgenia Gorokhova, Valentin Gromov, Rodion Gudzenko, Nikolai Zhukov, Anatoly Zaslavsky, Iosif Zisman, Igor Ivanov, Anatoly Kaplan, Aleksandr Kozhin, Pavel Kondratiev, Boris Koshelokhov, Ludmila Kutsenko, Valentin Levitin, Yevgeny Mikhnov-Voitenko, Gerta Nemenova, Leon Nissenbaum, Valentina Povarova, Valeriy Rabchinsky, Solomon Rossin, Ivan Sotnikov, Vladimir Sterligov, Gennady Ustugov, Vladimir Shagin, Sholom Shvarts, Boris Ender, Vladimir Yashke.

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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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Anna Frants. VISIONARY DREAMS # 3253-3357

December 20 – 27, 2011
Video Installations
Borey Art Center
St. Petersburg, Liteyny Prospekt 58

HOIST, 2001
Anna Frants / Cyland Media Lab
New York and Saint Petersburg

Americans use the word “elevator” for a device that Russians and English call a “lift”. But whatever it’s called, essentially it’s a lifting device – something that lifts us off the ground, and like the mythological Antaeus, we temporarily lose our strength when detached from the ground. In this installation, a video projector, screeching along a rail and projecting the video of an elevator shaft on the wall, reminds us of this anxiety. However, we see slides that a pair of old Kodak projectors display at our feet level, and these impressions firmly keep us grounded.

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AND SO IT BEGINS… CYBERFEST 2011

Photo and text: Leah Stuhltrager

CYBERFEST is Russia’s annual exposition of technology art by top international artists.

CYBERFEST enters its 5th year this November with over 80 artists from 20 countries participating. A citywide event, CYBERFEST’s programming is housed across iconic institutions and emerging art venues throughout St Petersburg. From visual arts to music performances to interactive installations to films to lectures to children’s workshops – all programming is entirely free (no charge) to the public.

CYBERFEST 2011’s theme is “Show Us Your Tongue!”, a curatorial title embodying this years’ participants who all address the philosophical question: “Are new technologies capable of creating a new tongue of art?”

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