This evening at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art opens a personal exhibition «Yakov Kazhdan. 233 ° C ».

artist Yakov Kazhdan Moscow is well aware of the audience: nominee for the prize «Innovation», as a young artist's prize festival «insulating tape», member of numerous video and group exhibitions in Russia, Germany, Belgium, the United States, the audience favorite of the festival « Pusto », today demanded videohudozhnik, whose works are stored in the leading museums in Moscow and major international private collections. Most popular in the artistic community, he brought a video and installation-related studies the phenomenon of advertising and its interaction with the collective unconscious.

A new exhibition opened earlier period of his work, the late 1990's - early 2000-ies. Then the Kazhdan has performance, which played a major role paper clothes. 233 ° C - this is equivalent to 451 ° F, and the famous Bradbury Tryuffo temperature at which paper burns.

The reason for the exhibition has a new feature-length film artist, who became for him a landmark autobiographical experiment. The film explores the thin line on which the personal experience of becoming a fact of creation. The hero of the film - the student, through romantic passion, he becomes an artist whose creative method - performance with paper clothing. Having achieved some success, the hero is in a situation where he will have to decide that it is the most important in life. And the temperature limit of 233 ° C is playing here is not the least role.

exhibition «233 ° C» will bring together almost all the projects James Kazhdana carried out before 2002: «Golden introduction to ballet" Golem "», «Peer Gynt», «Bible Project», «Long live the art of Tatlin! »,« Zero for conduct »,« Paper wedding »,« Song »,« Wild Swans », Communication Food, and even a performance presented by Timur Petrovich Novikov concert« New Academy »in 1999. Supplemented with real video artefacts performances - paper gowns and costumes, forever mummified in thin plastic boxes as if uorhollovskie «time capsule».

These objects are distinguished by laborious work on fragile materials, can take up to several months - and all for one performance. Time becomes an important topic of paper work. Attempting to create an instant image that will never happen again, like an attempt to create videos without the video of the technology, which always requires training, installation, but can be seen in a short time.

Baroque excess of images and paper clothes itself in its time provoked comparisons with James Kazhdana designers, whom he had never been and do not aspire to become. Epatazh his performances associated with the theater. Interdisciplinary principle did work Kazhdana demand for different categories of cultural news. Performances shown in fashion shows, in galleries, on television, in theaters, and even in clubs. However, artistic challenges, and the author returned to this language in the context of contemporary art.

Наивная sincerity of the 1990's never to revive life, a dress can not be wearing - not least because the temperature of the era has changed. Those most 233 ° C is separated from the nineties is zero, and the film «dead cat» bonfire ends of paper dresses.

The exhibition is open: August 19 - September 14, 2008.

Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Tverskoi Boulevard, 9, (Gallery «Zurab »).

Opening: 18 August at 19:00.

Source: mmoma.ru