Tomorrow night at Gallery A3 will be a presentation of a new documentary film on the history and formation of non-conformism of the Leningrad picturesque 1960-70

A3 Gallery, March 16, beginning at 18.00
Moscow, Starokonyushenny Lane, 39

«They wrote as if the freedom they had already given»

Tomorrow, March 16 at Gallery A3 will presentation of a new documentary film "Top Blue Lagoon", dedicated to the history and formation of non-conformism of the Leningrad picturesque 1960-70s.

«Top Blue Lagoon" - a documentary about the non-conformist artists 1960-70 -s, an informal movement called samizdat in the 1980s to the chronicler Constantine Kuzminski "Archipelago at the Blue Lagoon." The film is about the most important trends and schools of the time, the relationship with the new Leningrad avant-garde avant-garde of the 1920s - , Matiushin , Malevich , the teachers, the transmission of these traditions ( Sterligov and Akimov ), the atmosphere of that time, the experience of survival free of the artist in an unfree society.

Here is reproduced the chronology of the most important for this set of events - the unofficial exhibitions, followed by the first time in Leningrad there were two major exhibitions allowed - in the Palace of Culture. I. Strip and DC "Nevsky" in 1974-1975. At these exhibitions was announced a new direction in art: Leningrad nonconformity (also called "gazanevskoy culture"). The authors talk about the most famous schools and artists' gazanevschiny ": the terms of Aref'eva , on Mikhnova-Voitenko , Rukhin . About the circumstances of the collapse of schools and forced emigration of many participants in the movement.

Most of the episodes filmed in St. Petersburg. In the woven fabric of the film numerous interviews of artists and poets - the eye-witnesses and active participants in those events: V. Ovchinnikov , AP Belkin , AN Vasiliev , V.S.Vidermana , VA Mishin , In . N. Valran , A. Rybakov, S. Kowalski , B. H . Koshelohova, Petrochenkova, D. Shagin . Used in photo and video archive of exhibitions, as well as Art Center "Pushkin, 10».

Film Production: Studio "FilmOKey" directors - Maya Danilevskaya, Andrey Tkachenko, author of the script - Maxim Glikin.

After viewing - discussion. Everyone involved. Sample topics of discussion:

• free in an unfree country artists: the Soviet experience and current issues. Resistance and opposition to the dictates of ideology and the market. The thirst for self-assertion in the free (own) art space. Imitation of Western art and the art of the situation.
• Petersburg's underground: call Moscow or unique phenomenon?
• Features Petersburg contemporary art.
• Is there a second chance at the Russian underground, in the context of a consumer society?

In discussing the film will take part :

• film writer, journalist, writer Maxim Glikin:
• collectors of contemporary art Mikhail Alshibaya, Alexander Mironov Alexander Lipnitsky, Yuri Gurov, Lyusine Petrossian;
• art Patsukov Vitaly and Irina Alpatova;
• academic-cultural studies Glory Linen;
• art critic Vadim Alexeev, Igor Dudinskiy;
• artists Valery Mishin, Boris Orlov , Leonid Borisov , Valentin Samarin ;
• poets Tamara Bukovsky, Vladimir Sergienko.

The event will address the group "Ts.v.e.t.a.e.v.a».

Presentation of the film takes place in the Gallery exhibition project "Raising forever» , organized by art studio "dominant." The exposition consists of works by Igor Dudinsky known Petersburg artist Boris Koshelohova, as well as work Tryamkina and Yuri Gurov.

invite everyone who cares about the history of domestic underground and avant-garde!

about the history of the Leningrad nonconformist movement read the story of Igor Dudinsky « Gazanevtsy "under the heading" Artist of the week » on AI.

Source : Press Release Presentation