comparable whether habitual for us to state the pleasure of the many benefits of civilization - a stable, steady, widespread - with engrossing, demanding return of physical and mental strength, and therefore relatively rare and intimate ecstatic pleasure? Which of these two conditions can change our perception of the world, making it an extremely sincere and complete, to elevate us above the problems and make almost happy?

Exhibition «Techniques ecstasy», which opens today at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, begins a long-term project mnogochastny SUPREMUS, named after that in the present as there was in 1991. The authors of Alexander Shumov , Serge Golovach and Victor Ribas, apologists technology «fractal abstraction», raise the question of returning to our roots, to the item merger, to which modern man is becoming less and less frequently - while the cyclical return to it, it was found in many ancient cultures and religious practices.

Ecstasy - the status, almost familiar to our contemporaries, forgotten, like the culture of the ancient Greeks and careful with anything that changes the routine of life, helps to enter into the blessed state of delight. Moment of change of consciousness, when - a sudden or expected - we found a source of admiration fills us to the edges of the vessel, displacing us from the rest of the world. This state of enlightenment, higher comprehension of the meaning inherent in the people, improving their spiritual level. A brief but extremely intense period of merger of domestic and external peace. Do creative people, it manifests in the final product - the painting, film, text, movement.

presented at the court of the audience - both cause and consequence. They dance and yoga, love and sex, philosophy, and alternative values of modern life indirectly considered the authors of the growing feeling on the threshold of pain perception. Prohibitive degree of emotional scope of the project required the artists to find specific forms of expression that led to the creation of the special techniques of photographic imagery and authentic methods of abstract painting.

Technique «fractal abstraction», developed by a group of SUPREMUS, allows to speak about the original, bright phenomenon of contemporary art. On the technology of fractal abstraction visitors tell you the movie, created with the help of scientists of the Institute of Philosophy Russian Academy of Sciences. The exhibition at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art will be the beginning of a series of events, exhibitions and seminars on modern abstract art.

Shumov Alexander was born in 1960 in Moscow. In 1986 he graduated from Moscow State University. MV Lomonosov Moscow State University, specialty «Art»; then took his curatorial debut as an author of the exposition section of the sculpture at the XVII Youth exhibition. In 1991 he was curator of the exhibition «Modern Painters - Malevich» in the Tretyakov Gallery, as well as the author, perhaps, the only officially authorized performance on Red Square «Kremlin. Church. Capital ». From 1991 to 2001, issued annually newspaper SUPREMUS. In 1995, introduced a performance Reservoir Dog Oleg Oleg Kulik in Zurich, at the same time had a program Kunsthaus Oerlikon, in which, among others, were presented V. Mizin , A. Golizdrin, O. Spruce, D. Bulnygin. Proper art shows since 1991: Party I and II of Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, the exhibition «Gender Trouble» and «I believe». In 2007, was presented at the Shanghai Biennale of Contemporary Art as «Opening the year». Red and white song «the era of Suprematism» set up in Switzerland and was first shown in Oldenburg in 1996. The works are in public and private collections.

Victor Ribas was born in 1967 in Khabarovsk. A professional artist, director, graduated from the Khabarovsk Institute of the Arts in 1996. Author of a number of newsreels, experimental films, including the exhibition «Verju», of the fame of the artist as a tool. First applied the method of laser beams in photos in order to obtain fractal portrait - pseudographic abstract images and objects. His work in the technology of fractal abstract photography museum purchased ART4.ru (Moscow), Gallery Art & Public (Geneva), ABA (Karlsruhe), Zverev Center for Contemporary Art (Moscow). Victor Ribas - theorist and propagandist fractal abstract art. Lives in Moscow.

Serge Golovach was born in 1970 in Birobidzhane. Participant over a hundred exhibitions. Cooperates with glossy magazines as a photographer. Serge Golovach - an artist of life, an ornament of any event. His recognizable tricks - a panoramic portrait and genre and documentary photography, such as a series of «Waves». His work is represented in the collections of the State Russian Museum (St. Petersburg), Moscow Museum of Modern Art, National Center for Contemporary Art (Moscow), Far Eastern Art Museum (Khabarovsk). Lives in Moscow and Vitebsk.

exhibition in the MMSI can be visited from February 21 to March 15 at the following address: Tverskaya Boulevard, 9, (Gallery «Zurab »).

Source: press release MMSI