At the center of «Project Factory» an exhibition Catherine Rozhkova and Bogdan Mamonov «Weapons and Tools»

Yesterday evening in the center of «Project Factory» (hall «Olivier») held a preview exhibition «The weapons and tools» of two well-known Moscow artists - Catherine Rozhkova and Bogdan Mamonov .

In fact, what is modern art - a weapon or tool? This question has appeared a little less than a hundred years ago in the era of the emergence of historical, cultural avant-garde. Since then, the debate about the functions of art rage.

This issue is inseparable from the general dispute about the history: how new world is born through a revolution or evolution? During those hundred years we have heard different answers. Recall Mayakovski: «I want to bayonet equated Pen ...» But even then, not all agree with the author of «Clouds in trousers». and El Lisitsky -- the heroes of Russian avant-garde - to understand their activities as construction of a new consciousness, and art - as a tool for this work.

echo those discussions are not silent today. NBA (New British artists), or Moscow aktsionisty 1990's - that this is not a new «thermonuclear» art weapons? And at the same time, there are a number of alternative practices, seeking to maintain an intimate conversation with the audience, to become a conductor at the boundary of art. That is, for example, a group of «ESCAPE», a leader who until recently was Mamonov Bogdan - the project «The weapons and tools». If the «ESCAPE» Mamonov build a relationship with the viewer tool, the new paintings he makes a pronounced «male», aggressive position. His pieces revolvers in bizarre angles ziyayuschimi their nests resemble a monstrous mincers.

Rather, Mamonov partner, Catherine Rozhkova demonstrates the enormous black-and-white images, depicting fragments of tools. It would seem that we are typical dichotomy - the male-female. But it is not so simple. In the monochrome works Rozhkova felt a veiled threat, a reminder that not every tool bezobiden. At the same time, revolvers Mamonov are in memory the image of any steel plant. Perhaps, therefore, in one of the canvases is a quotation: «gracious of all colors - cold revolver».

In an era of global crisis of the modern art of loses its commodity-monetary value, and returns to his own nature. It is once again, we model the world in its complexities and contradictions. And that's well-known authors who have every opportunity to show the exhibit in the best galleries and museums of Moscow, chose to project a specific space «Factory». The latter carries the genetic code and the avant-garde revolution. And let the factory «October» no longer manufactures in the previous volumes of his product - the paper is far more important that it continues to generate meanings.

This is its main and primary products. Artists, mastering facilities and hangars now «Factory» - this is the new proletariat, which is able to find a way out of crisis. This way, according to the authors, is not to overcome the financial collapse, and the ability to transform the world around them. So what is art - Weapons or tools?

The exhibition is open until April 3 at the following address: Perevedenovsky Lane, 18, from Tuesday to Sunday from 10.00 to 20.00.

Source: proektfabrika.ru