Moscow Museum of Modern Art presents an exhibition of Sergei Shutov «Necessary and optional»

In the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (Ermolaevsky trans., 17) this evening to open exhibition of works Sergei Sergei Shutov «Necessary and optional ».

Sergei Shutov (b. 1955, Potsdam) - is extremely versatile and inventive artist. He practiced various forms of art (painting, drawing, photography, installations, multimedia installations, video) and is steadily expanding its own arsenal of techniques and technologies. By his own admission, his first work of art (performance), he did in third grade, but this year Shutov can truly celebrate the 30 th anniversary of creative activity - he participates in group exhibitions since 1978.

first renown Shutov bound program picture «Barsuchonok no longer lenitsya», shown in the sensational XVII Exhibition of Youth (1986). Fabulous success at the Moscow auction Sotheby's (1988) was the beginning of an international career Shutova. Most of the paintings Shutova these long years is in museum collections and private collections, mostly Western. He is the author of more than 40 personal exhibitions and participated in more than 140 groups. In 2001, the project Shutova «Abaka» represented Russia at the 49 th Venice Biennale, followed by Shutov was nominated for State Award (2002).

Sergei Shutov - artist, writer, musician, DJ and video-Jay, as well as the curator, publisher, organizer. His working career is very diverse and includes them in the Pushkin Museum. Alexander Pushkin, the Museum of the East, the Moscow Zoo and the Planetarium in the late 1970's - early 1980's, participated as an actor and artist in the cult film «ACCA» (1987), work on «Radio Station» (106,8 ), in a club and a video «Ptuch» - in the mid 1990's.

Hero single, never been in any art collectives, Shutov was always at the right time in the right place: in the 1980's he lived in the legendary Moscow Art skvotah of Furman Lane and Clean ponds close friends with a group of Moscow artists «Gnezdo» and «Champions of the world», as well as at the Leningrad «new artists». He was a member of l /o «Hermitage» (1987), one of the founders of Friends of Mayakovsky (1986), Academician of the Academy every Arts (1986), led by the department of graphic arts Free Academy (1989). Shutov was one of the organizers of «Art-Rock-Parada ACCA» in DC MELZ - exhibitions devoted to the premiere of the film, which has become an important gathering of avant-garde art and rock music. In 1993, Shutov founded and headed the Institute of Art, Technology, and in 1994 he arranged the Manezh first show of works of Russian video art «DabluSITI». Sergei Shutov, uniting in one person hippovye 70 th, modnicheskie 80 th and 90 th reyverskie and rightly bears the title honorary Russian pioneer of video art, electronic art guru and leader of the club movement, has become the favorite public and the press.

Personal exhibition Sergei Shutov «Necessary and optional» in the Moscow Museum of Modern Art in Ermolaevsky Lane will be the first museum retrospective artist. It will show the work of different years - old and new, well-known and never exhibited. For the first time, showing the general public almost 30 years ago, connecting them with new projects, Sergei Shutov essentially decided to abandon support of curators, and took on the responsibility themselves to build their own drama megavystavki. According to the artist, the whole corpus of his works are «not within the scope of the curators and gallery owners, and included within the scope of the artist and the spectator», so loved hits, along with Sergei Shutov shows works and projects for him personally is necessary, but for various reasons little known not attracted the attention of specialists, perhaps, ahead of time. Shutov not want to fit into someone invented the box, on the contrary, he tries to remain diverse and paradoxical.

Disclaimers Show most «cream», «hit» for Shutova principled. For example, the exhibition will not be nearly the principal of his installation «Abaka» (2001) made for the Venice Biennale in Moscow does not hold entirely.

One floor of the museum will be devoted to painting the 1980's and the early 1990's - this corpus of works never before shown retrospectively. Among the most striking specimens of painting the era of New Wave will show the program work Shutova 1988 «Girls who do not want a cold? or the unity of music during the installation of a memorial stone on the grave of Kazimierz Malevitch Nemchinovke in the summer of 1988 ».

The other three stories brought to the museum projects mainly the last decade, which is can be divided into three flow one to another unit - minimalism, space, and children.

In the first (minimalist) section lists the atypical for Shutova, paradoxical, but it is very beautiful by the author projects, in particular «Light heaven» (2001) - shestnadtsatimetrovy roll with a single band, indicating the horizon: minimalist Graffiti «01 -Gorim! »(2005) and« Freedom! »(2008), where the living cells of the Japanese robot-painter to paint a picture a specified program of song that the artist signs own name. Of the old barbed wire, which is itself a rarity, Shutov creating graphic objects, depicting the stars and satellites - the symbol of bygone grandeur and secrecy of national space program ( «Heavenly Force Iron city»). Other celestial forces almost literally materialize in the project «Shestikrylye» (2007). The theme of space as the promised place of extraterrestrial existence, the future development of large-scale project Apokatastasis Now (2006), and study opportunities levitation continue in the project «Elevatsiya» (2007). Subject toy first emerges in the project «Alien do not go here» (2000), where priporoshennye sparkling snowballs razlapistye trees come alive and begin to move on instead of playing field hockey. A children's theme «sekretikov» - the project «Vershki and roots» (2001), where in the bottom clay pots viewer suddenly sees the roots of plants and ... starry sky. The theme of «small», «offended» things developed in the draft «debris Songs» (2004), where a plush bear and a bear of a large collection of the artist. The same bear, but with multiple injuries, is portrayed in the series «I do not eat» (1998), which is proposed to interpret through vegetarianism and the mystery of the Holy Grail. But other bears go on a demonstration project in «Veteran» (2006), requiring honey, meat and winter benefits utilities.

The exhibition will be presented to the majority of video Shutova and multimedia installations. Consecutive demonstration video will be arranged early in the movie theater on the first floor of the museum. To be reinstated one of the first interactive multimedia installations in modern Russian art - «sensual experience» (1992). And after the risky trip with a video camera in the depths of the Moscow subway, as in a labyrinth of Minotaur ( «Instead Minotaur», 2004), the artist has prepared the audience met with these ghosts ( «spirits», 2004). Finally, one of the most powerful works Shutova - multimedia installation «Carpet-Hydrangea» (2003), which is based video made conditional the same poem by Alexander Vvedensky. And no matter how great tragic power of art (in the Statement of Vvedensky Shutova just want to cry), it is always ready to confront the comic - the project «Classic-karaoke» (2004), is almost Homeric laughter.

Along with the exhibition of WAM publishing house released the first retrospective catalog Sergei Shutov.

exhibition in the MMSI (Ermolaevsky trans., 17) opens to visitors on 16 December and will operate until January 18, 2009.

Source: press release MMSI