An exhibition of new works by Dmitry Gutov, which consists of 13 wall assemblages

Gallery M & Z Gelman
CSR «Winery» (4 th Syromyatnichesky trans., 1)

An exhibition of new works by Dmitry Gutov, which consists of 13 wall assemblages. In them the artist plays the entourage dirty showcases Soviet stores with poor clearance and half-shelves and display cases. Bicycles, hangers, washing machines, transistors, and vacuum cleaners are kept in arrays of vertical metal bars. The entire stylish decor combines features decorative abstraction and pop art.

Series Dmitry Gutov with an eloquent title «second-hand» forced to recall his earlier work «Art - in the way of life» (1988), where the art object was made up of polished door from gedeerovskogo sideboard and then fashionable striped glass. Redimeydy Soviet era - are a sort of calling card creativity Gutov.

using the normal attributes of Soviet life sixties, an artist, drawing on images of a bygone Soviet utopia creates spectacular works of current postmodern art rife with quotations and allusion.

It seems that the exhibition of «second-hand» Gallery Guelman becomes a kind of result in this direction Gutov art. The artist, for many years of collecting the Soviet era, has decided to obramit and put on sale in the very different capacity, which once again indicates the end of the post-Soviet era. The residual material era the only way to survive - is to become part of elite art (read - the goods), to hide or museums, or, more likely, in the hands of private collectors. All safer than at home.

P. S. Dmitry Gutov was born in 1960 year in Moscow. In 1992 graduated from the department of theory and history of art Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. Repin ( St. Petersburg ). In 1995 became one of the artists representing Russia at the «XLVI Biennale» in Venice and on the paper-Halle in Kassel.

Sources: http://www.guelman.ru; http://www.gif.ru.