Park of Culture and Recreation
Curator:
Vladimir Seleznyov
Participants:
Vladimir Abikh, Alexander Bazhenov, Dmitry Bulnygin, Evgeny Gavrilov, Andrey Garin, Kristina Gorlanova, Alisa Gorshenina, Gosha Elayev, Alexey Zhulikov, Liudmila Kalinichenko, Maria Kashkarova, Sergey Kiryakov, Viktor
Koryakin, Anastasia Krokhaleva, Irina Korina, Where Dogs Run, Vitaly Lazarenko, Krasil Makar, Mart, Alexandra Melnikova, Varenye Organism, Denis Perevalov, Ekaterina Poedinshchikova, Konstantin Roslyakov, Masha Sedyayeva, Ivan Snigiryov, Eva Solovey, Alexander Surikov, Andrey Syaylev, Maria Foot, Anya Cherepanova, Ustina Yakovleva, snd6174, U360
Vladimir Seleznyov
Participants:
Vladimir Abikh, Alexander Bazhenov, Dmitry Bulnygin, Evgeny Gavrilov, Andrey Garin, Kristina Gorlanova, Alisa Gorshenina, Gosha Elayev, Alexey Zhulikov, Liudmila Kalinichenko, Maria Kashkarova, Sergey Kiryakov, Viktor
Koryakin, Anastasia Krokhaleva, Irina Korina, Where Dogs Run, Vitaly Lazarenko, Krasil Makar, Mart, Alexandra Melnikova, Varenye Organism, Denis Perevalov, Ekaterina Poedinshchikova, Konstantin Roslyakov, Masha Sedyayeva, Ivan Snigiryov, Eva Solovey, Alexander Surikov, Andrey Syaylev, Maria Foot, Anya Cherepanova, Ustina Yakovleva, snd6174, U360
August 8 — Оctober 10, 2020
The Manege Central Exhibition Hall St. Petersburg
A sense of timelessness, an experience of the otherness of contemporary Russian reality - these are the feelings that the works of the project evoke. Ghosts of the past and images of the modern world slipping into archaism live in the "Park of Culture and Recreation" (a term from Soviet urban planning). Its structure is similar to the parks of Russian cities, with carousels, fountains and sculptures. It resembles backstreets, small shops on the ground floors of apartment blocks, unattended courtyards of " khrushchevka's" - those places where normative aesthetics is tied to big money and big history. And you are here and now - in life as it turns out. At the same time, this is a park from a dream, a place where our sorrows are deposited, where rides are enjoyed by figures carved out of wood, CCTV cameras are switched on only to record the emptiness, and the noise of fountains is listened to by lampposts.
The total installation "Park of Culture and Recreation" was created especially for the NEMOSKVA project. Artists living in different regions of the country - the group "Sever-7", Anna and Vitaly Cherepanov, Andrey Rudyev, Egor Fedorichev - are united not only by the practice of creating objects from everyday things transformed by the author's mythology, performativity and art recycling, but also by their attitude to their own art as a daily ritual.
For Anna and Vitaly Cherepanov, such a ritual is Park Volny, a project to deploy art in abandoned buildings, forest parks and wastelands. The works of the group "Sever-7" often look like objects of archaeological excavations, the artists show a new place of modern man - in the gap between archaic and modernity, within natural and object connections.
Egor Fedorichev applies oil paints on different surfaces: unprimed tarpaulin, advertising banners, pieces of fabric from construction sites. For the artist, this is akin to alchemy - a transition to a new level, the rebirth of the inanimate into the animate.
In his retrofuturistic object, Andrey Rudiev addresses the theme of self-identification. The artist tries on the alter ego images of various historical and media characters, trying to answer the question, first of all to himself, what an artistic statement can be in times of external upheaval.
Nikolai Akimov, a pensioner from Vyksa, a small town in the Nizhny Novgorod region, engages in creative work but does not consider himself an artist. For him, such a ritual action is the creation of wooden sculpturesNikolai Akimov, a pensioner from Vyksa, a small town in the Nizhny Novgorod region, engages in creative work but does not consider himself an artist. For him, such a ritual action is the creation of wooden sculptures, which he places around his house.
The total installation "Park of Culture and Recreation" was created especially for the NEMOSKVA project. Artists living in different regions of the country - the group "Sever-7", Anna and Vitaly Cherepanov, Andrey Rudyev, Egor Fedorichev - are united not only by the practice of creating objects from everyday things transformed by the author's mythology, performativity and art recycling, but also by their attitude to their own art as a daily ritual.
For Anna and Vitaly Cherepanov, such a ritual is Park Volny, a project to deploy art in abandoned buildings, forest parks and wastelands. The works of the group "Sever-7" often look like objects of archaeological excavations, the artists show a new place of modern man - in the gap between archaic and modernity, within natural and object connections.
Egor Fedorichev applies oil paints on different surfaces: unprimed tarpaulin, advertising banners, pieces of fabric from construction sites. For the artist, this is akin to alchemy - a transition to a new level, the rebirth of the inanimate into the animate.
In his retrofuturistic object, Andrey Rudiev addresses the theme of self-identification. The artist tries on the alter ego images of various historical and media characters, trying to answer the question, first of all to himself, what an artistic statement can be in times of external upheaval.
Nikolai Akimov, a pensioner from Vyksa, a small town in the Nizhny Novgorod region, engages in creative work but does not consider himself an artist. For him, such a ritual action is the creation of wooden sculpturesNikolai Akimov, a pensioner from Vyksa, a small town in the Nizhny Novgorod region, engages in creative work but does not consider himself an artist. For him, such a ritual action is the creation of wooden sculptures, which he places around his house.
