Flight in sleep and in waking
Proun Gallery - September 25th 2011 - December 5th 2011
L.Khidekel. Spacial Painting.
Another exhibition project at the "Proun" Gallery, opening the new season, dealing with flight and levitation, with the ability to disconnect from the surface of the Earth and grow into new territories. Throughout history man has never dreamed of anything as fiercely as about the sky, and finally, by the beginning of the XXth century, this dream has become more realistic. Technological progress, which has become the new symbol of faith for the Futirism artists, has "brought the sky closer" and turned the idea of flight into a problem soon-to-be-solved, and no longer the epitome of personal raging challenge against God.
This is the main peculiarity of the Russian Avant-garde Utopia: it has never been a fantasy, a romantic dream of a better world. The Russian Avant-garde art has carried in it the pathos of the order of the world, where the Universe would be seen in a totally new light, and the artist became prophets and apostles of the new reality. The planits made from geonetric primary elements by Malevich, Chashnik, Suetin, Khidekel, were suspended weightlessly not in the an abstract "sky" but in a physically specific space, interacting with it. In a similar way Yakov Chernikhov's constructions, most resembling today's supercontemporary orbit stations, appeared alive in a world above the ground.
The exhibition in the "Proun" gallery is not about spiritual search and flight of angels, or a type of neoplatonic study on a theme of "the spiritual in art"; it is not about the cosmos and the conquering thereof. It is about a real existing power of the art, which allows, for example, the installation hero Ilya Kabakov to fly to space; or Vasili Chekrygin to draw scenes of the rising of the dead with a charcoal; Mikhail Matiushin, Boris Ender, and to some extent organic art heirs Francisco Infante and Nonna Goriunova to create works, based non scientific research of nature and natural artifacts.
The exhibition presents about 60 works (painting, graphic art) of the Russian Avant-garde artists, as well as some contemporary artists, among them Ilya Kabakov, Pavel Peppershtein and others.
Information on this page was translated from the "Vinzavod" Contemporary Art Center announcement webpage (Russian).
Location and Contact Information:
"Proun" Gallery
Contemporary Art Cetner "Vinzavod"
Syromiatnichesky Pereulok 4, Moscow
Tel: +7(495) 916-09-00
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