On March 2010 Garage Center of Contemporary Culture opens after reconstruction with two scale exhibitions - "Futurology" and "Russian Utopias". Two projects include the works by more than 40 Russian artists and represent different ways of contemporary Russian art development.
Electroboutique (Aristarkh Chernyshev, Alexei Shulgin in collaboration with Roman Minaev), 3g International, 2010. 240x140x140cm, Mixed media. Courtesy of the Artists and Private Collection
"Futurology" is the point of view of french curator Herve Mikhailov (concerning of his name he’s not complete french curator). And "Utopias" exhibition has been selected by young Russian curators Julia Aksenova and Tatyana Volkova. The list of artists that will be represented in Garage is quite impressive. I’m sure that it’ll be the main exhibition project on Moscow art spring.
"Futurology" investigates the avant-guard movement of the first half of 20th centure and its influence to the actual Russian art scene. There will be abstract and figurative art works by Kazimir Malevich from the collection of Moscow Museum of Modern Art. At the same time Garage will represent 18 absolutely new works by contemporary artists. 
Kazimir Malevich, Suprematic Composition with a Black Cross, 1920 -1922. 80x80.5cm. oil, canvas, Courtesy: Moscow Museum of Modern Art
Andrei Molodkin, Project, 2009. 340x260x25cm. acrylic tubes filled with crude oil and neon tubes. Courtesy of the Artist and Tretyakov gallery UK
Ilya Gaponov & Kirill Koteshov, from Kuzbass series. 200x1000 cm, 5 parts, canvas, Kuzbass varnish (bitumen). Courtesy of the Artists and Triumph gallery
The members of "Futurology" exhibition: Kazimir Malevich, Viktor Alimpiev, Sergey Bugaev-Afrika, Peter Belyi, Olga Chernysheva, Electroboutique (Alexey Shulgin, Aristarkh Chernyshev, Roman Minaev), Ilya Gaponov & Kirill Koteshov, Olga Kiseleva, Irina Korina, Diana Machulina, Andrey Molodkin, Pavel Peppershtein, Ivan Plusch, Recycle Group (Andrey Blokhin & Georgy Kuznetsov), Aidan Salakhova, Sergey Bratkov.
"Russian Utopias" is about the utopia projects in Russian art. The first part of exhibition is called "Dedication. On the Ruins of Great Utopias" and displays the main utopias of XX centure - the revolutionary avant-guard and socialistic project. The second part is called "Future from nowadays" and shows how contemporary artists modelize the images of future in the art.
Ilya Korobkov, Metro, 2009. Video. Courtesy of the Artist
Oleg Kulik, Slogan, 2003. C-print, 120x178 cm. Courtesy of the Artist and XL Gallery
Igor Makarevich and Elena Elagina, Mushrooms of Russian Avant-Garde, 2008. Installation. Detail. Plaster, carton, acrylic. 40x40cm, height 190cm. Courtesy of the Artists The list of members of "Russian Utopias" exhibition: ABC Group, Vyacheslav Akhunov, Yuri Avvakumov, Kirill Ass & Anna Ratafyeva, Alexandr Brodsky, Dmitry Bulatov & Alexey Chebykin, Alexey Buldakov, Dmitry Gutov, Arseny Zhilyaev, «Inspection Medical Hermeneutic», Igor Makarevich & Elena Elagina, Alexey Kallima, «Where dogs run» Group, Oleg Kulik, Dmitry Korobkov, Valery Koshlyakov, Andrey Kuzkin, «Cloud Comission» Group, «Icy Architects» Group, Boris Orlov, Dmitry Prigov, Nikolay Polissky, «PG» Group, «Blue Noses» Group, Avdey Ter-Oganyan, Khaym Sokol, Natasha Struchkova, Stas Shuripa, Sergey Shutov. |
