Andrey Medvedev. Girls and Dirigibles

Andrey Medvedev. Girls and Dirigibles

Andrey Medvedev. Girls and Dirigibles (painting, gummiarabic print).
Follow me, comrades aviators, float in the abyss, for I have established the semaphores of suprematism! K. Malevich. Suprematism 1919. XXth century is picking up. Petrograd, Leningrad, wars, revolutions. New names, titles and symbols. Poet Velimir Khlebnikov replaces French word ‘aviator’ with the Russian ‘flyer’ (letchik). Flyer Vasily Kamensky becomes a futurist flyer. Continue reading

Konstantin Zvezdochetov. Hello, Dear Boltansky!

Konstantin Zvezdochetov. Hello, Dear Boltansky!

Konstantin Zvezdochetov (Moscow).Hello, Dear Boltansky! (painting).
Co-organized with XL gallery (Moscow). AN ATTEMPT TO DECIPHER A FRIENDLY JOKE. In Paris there lives an artist called Boltansky. Long time ago his ancestors came to France from Odessa. He likes to exhibit black and white photo portraits with lamps in dark halls. After his exhibitions one feels sad and terrified. Continue reading

Olga Tobreluts. Tarquinius and Lucretia

Olga Tobreluts. Tarquinius and Lucretia

Olga Tobreluts. Tarquinius and Lucretia (video, media art).
Booklet. Curator – Ekaterina Andreeva. The ancient Roman story of Tarquinius and Lucretia, as related by Olga Tobreluts, shows desire and violence rather than love and devotion, thus catching back with classical tradition that took interplay of these two forces for the fundamental principle of cosmos and the law of nature. Continue reading