In Moscow GMG Gallery opened an exhibition of German Bjorn videoartista Melhusa Deadly Storms ( «pilots element»)

GMG Gallery in Moscow opened an exhibition of German Bjorn videoartista Melhusa Deadly Storms ( «pilots element»), first announced by Western artists, the gallery exhibits the middle generation, is not of museum classics, but the most prominent figures of the actual art scene.

Bjorn Melhus, 42-year-old German painter of Norwegian descent, has long been researching the power of television over the conscience, for the sake of what has been a этакую Telemann in the last stage, and transformed with the help of Grima and costumes in a variety of characters «of the box». However, unlike the usual, not aware of his folly Teleman, Mr. Melhus plays like a TV with a completely sbivshimisya settings and hopelessly broken remote control. Perhaps that TV in general can not be turned off, as in the Japanese horror, it turned itself and does not cease to threaten hypnotized viewers all kinds of disasters.

This is what happens in the new work of Björn Melhusa Deadly Storms, for the first time in the world shown at the Moscow exhibition. Each of the walls of the auditorium the audience look at three identical head shaven and cropped because the seemingly neutral and impersonal, as yet not zagrimirovannye head shop mannequins. Like any modern media versions makbetovskih witches, they were in unison, well articulate patter professional announcers broadcast any prophecy. However, their words seem even more dark than the Shakespearean speech sisters. Talking heads Bjorn Melhusa not even predict the disaster itself, but coming prophecy. «Details will follow. What we know so far », - obsessed with repeating mediaorakuly until their ecstatic patter on the rhythm of coming to the technology, once again, do not stop thundering intro television. Mr. Melhus put in the mouth of its clones, this sounds a series of releases channel Fox news - but in the version этакого miksta, almost dancing to the rhythm and a shaman on the impact on the audience.

Deadly Storm, for which, I think, sooner or later start to beat literally fit in - is a kind of latter stage mediazavisimosti. A variety of previous phases are represented at the Moscow exhibition of works by earlier artists. There is, for example, video The Oral Thing, where the audioryad popular American daytime talk show Maury Povicha which participants discuss with leading their everyday problems, removed the video, a scene reminiscent of intergalactic judgment seat of some old-fashioned fiction series such as «Startreka ».

If Deadly Storms predicting apocalypse, and The Oral Thing shows how looks suited to teleformatu Terrible court, another movie with a Moscow Exhibition - Auto Center Drive - shows world on the other side of the screen, as the country of the dead. Heroes of the work Bjorn Melhusa became tragically deceased American stars - James Dean, Elvis Presley, Jim Morrison and Janice Joplin (transformed into a performance artist in androginnogo hippovogo lad). Express replicas of his films and lines of their songs, they roam about the sunny Californian margin and provincial town on the border of Mojave desert in the world, clearly resembling films of David Lynch, his zashtatnuyu of America, which through all the cracks worm inobytie. One can not but recall «Twin pixels», from which the broadcast on Russian television in the mid 1990's, many of us felt the first time all mercilessness inexorably tightening your television crater.

Source: www.kommersant.ru