Of all the artists of the circle of Moscow conceptualism Yuri Albert, long-living between Russia and Germany is probably the least of Moscow and the concept of international understanding of this trend. Not being distracted on extraneous things, he studies the laws of artistic thinking. And the most appropriate sense of the conceptual art of Yuri Albert, evidently considers noble and thoughtful boredom that befits feel like the viewer, and the very creator. So, for his exhibition at Stella Art artist painstakingly rewrote and redraw from the hand of his previous exhibition catalog - with the dark squares instead of pictures. To create these works, which play the role of «graphic», gone, he said, almost eight months. The role played by painting carefully rewritten butter and enlarged to a full-fledged paintings Kukryniksov cartoons on contemporary art. Created approximately at the same time, when Michael Livshits wrote a «crisis ugliness», these figures at all Lada mock the bourgeois formalism like «Americans in Venice»: dude, artists write from life Grand Canal, but they produced some abstract zakalyaki.

Favorite art of Yuri Albert, as recognized by the artist, it is minimalist abstraction. The main attraction of exhibition of Stella Art has become a classic of this field ommazh Carl Andre, famous for his sculptures of vylozhennyh metal squares on the floor. Only at the Yuri Albert those squares formed outstretched above the floor somewhere in the knee by metallic cables. «Please come with high heels», - was written in the invitation cards. And the truth, to examine the paintings and graphics, the audience had to literally jump through the wire - so that everything that happens in a game reminiscent of children's classics. All criticisms Yury Albert replied that his work was partly inspired by the words of another classic, minimalist abstractions, Barnet Newman, said that the sculpture - it is something to come that, when the wastes in order to better consider the painting.

No, Yuri Albert does not care to entertain the audience этаким extreme attraction. Most software zanudstvo that Yuri Albert does not deny, contains a certain element of sadism: in a previous project, Mr. Albert forcing every visitor to the exhibition, in which he participated, put a pebble in the shoe to a light nuisance has helped him not to relax and contemplate the art of with the proper concentration.

The exhibition at the Stella Art was strongly impossible to escape the usual vernisazhnuyu secular chatter: Try to talk when you separate from the other person is a real obstacle course. Yuri Albert, as a strict teacher, managed to get his «Class» full attention and to recall that modern art - it is not fun and it requires the perception of effort.

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