Exhibition of works by Russian modern artists opens today in Miami Beach in the Art Basel fair

Russian Dreams ... Russian Dreams ... It is called the exposition, which brings together the work of contemporary artists from pressing Russia, which opens today in the U.S. city of Miami Beach in the Fairs Art Basel . The exhibition is held in the Bass Museum of Art, and organized in cooperation with the relevant set of multimedia art in Moscow, better known as the audience of Moscow House of Photography. Curator of the exhibition is the director of Olga Sviblova MDF, which is also preparing a Russian pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2007. «Now Russian art is experiencing a very fruitful period, various artists and groups of artists creating exciting, innovative work - described it. - In order to truly understand what a wonderful time is now modern art, you must apply to the generation of artists, which refers to ... category of "underground". Exhibition of Russian Dreams ... gives us an opportunity to look afresh at the work of the representatives of social art ... and to assess their influence on those artists who are working today ».

The exhibition is made a comparison of recognized contemporary authors such as Alexander Ponomarev, the group «AES + F» , Vladimir Dubossarskii and Alexander Vinogradov , Gutov , Alexei Kostroma , and the artists came on recently, including Julia Mil'ner, Rostan Tavasiev , Haim Haim Sokol and the group« MishMash » . Representatives of the first group gained fame in 1980, 1990, in an era of Russian «underground», and Gorbachev's perestroika. Then came Sots Art - whimsical mixture of socialist realism and pop art, which ridiculed the official art under strict state control. Artists from the second group, which is now 20-30 years old, began his creative development in the new, post-perestroika Russia, where government restrictions on expression were withdrawn and the authors have opened up new horizons.

Russian Dreams ... brings together recent works by Russian authors in the relevant field of painting, photography, video and installation and allows you to explore the attitudes of new generation.

Painters Association «AES + F»: Tatiana Arzamasova, Leo Evzovich, Eugene Śviack and Vladimir Fridkes show work «Defile» (2006-2007), in which they «put» in haute couture gowns unidentified body from the morgue .

Leonid Leonid Tishkov along with the photographer Boris Bendikovym present a draft Private Moon (My moon. 2003-2005) - a series of full of tenderness and melancholy photographs, in which artists, based on personal experience, have tried to show the stages of its own path to enlightenment.

Olga Olga Chernysheva , of which exhibited at the Biennale in Moscow (2007), Venice (2001) and Sydney ( 2006), offers the viewer a draft Dream Street (street dream. 2000) - a series of black-and-white pictures taken outside of Moscow in 1999, in which the author has captured moments of everyday life in modern Russia.

dynamic video Universe (Vselennaya. 2008) will present at the former model, now a photographer Julia Mil'ner. In the list of her achievements - the participation in the Venice Biennale in 2007.

Young videohudozhnik Alexei Buldakov show two short animated film SEXLISSITZKY (2007) and XXX MALEVICH (2008), in which fragments of Suprematist paintings by Russian authors are accompanied by moans and pant two lovers.

In memory of outstanding Russian architect Alexey Alexei Shchusev artist Yuri Avvakumov prepared for its exhibition «Tomb» (2008), which was of 3 500 black domino, decorated with crystals Swarovski. This work will be exhibited for the first time.

Alexei Kostroma became famous for his projects on the «tail» of various objects, ranging from a huge egg and ending with a textbook of art like «Mona Lisa» and «Black Square». In Russian Dreams ... He will present «plumose aggression» (2008) - five-tool in the feathers, the barrel of which when approaching man falls down sharply, then gradually rises back.

Among the works presented in the exhibition, there is even such an unusual art form, as a «fluid sculpture». This is a piece called «democracy» (2000), created Andrew Molodkinym , is a transparent receptacle in the form of letters filled with oil. So the author tried to make this natural resource is the object of aesthetic perception.

Exhibition «Russian Dreams ...» in the Bass Museum of Art will run until February 8, 2009.

material produced Catherine Onuchin

Source: bassmuseum.org , christies.com , artinvestment.ru