Recalling Russian avant-garde: artistic approach to labor
Published: 11 October, 2009, 20:36
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An attempt to revive the spirit the Russian avant-garde, its forms and ideas about reshaping life – this is the “Workers’ movement” project that has opened as part of the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art.
For many artists, the visuals of avant-garde have exhausted their energy and power. Artists tend to go deeper into design, compromised by the art market, which has reduced the concept of value to price.
The “Workers’ Movement” turns to the visual aspect of avant-garde ideas. The title refers to the revolutionary decades of the 20th century, the era of Bolshevik utopias, collectivization, industrialization and cultural revolution.
The exhibition is dedicated to workers and thus the venue is an operating paper factory – PROEKT_FABRIKA. Artists used the space of the venue to visualize their ideas of how labor is treated today in sophisticated installations, sculptures and paintings.
The pearl of the expo is definitely Nikolay Polissy’s "Large Hadron Collider". This monument to the daring success of science and technology is being displayed in Russia for the first time, after its successful presentation in Luxemburg. Polissky’s collider is an allegory of the eternal labor through which humanity discovers the secret of forms.
Andrei Filippov continues the theme of the artistic vision by collecting and analyzing the world in his intricate visual “anamorphosis” – a special gadget that helps to reconstruct the picture of the world, while Valery Rivan has created a “Suprematist portal”, a theater of natural elements and human emotions.
Other artists participating in the project turn to human emotions and visualize the energy and plasticity of work and labor as such.
The project is on at PROEKT_FABRIKA in Moscow through the end of October.
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