Today in Moscow to open exhibition of young artists called “tomb of rebellion”, prepared by the curator Anatoly Osmolovsky

Today, Stella Art Foundation opens in Moscow (str Mytnaya, 62) an exhibition of young artists called «tomb of rebellion», prepared by Anatoly Osmolovsky.

main curatorial idea is to identify distinct trends in contemporary Russian art. This trend, which has not yet received its name, is creating strange artistic objects stuck between the property of Fine Arts and some unknown (or non-existent in reality) a cult. We know that the vast majority of fine art is connected with the cult, that is subordinated to a religious idea. Beginning with the Egyptian sculptures and ending with the secular paintings. Strangely element «cult» present in the sites of classical avant-garde (you may remember the «black box» , hanged them in the corner as if it were an icon), and the artifacts of modern art.

In other words, the outcast cult back in the art form. The art object is not only a neutral object of contemplation, but also worship. Indeed, some objects of contemporary art did not know of include: whether it is art, whether of unknown beliefs.

The exhibition is trying to identify this trend, to provide its most talented authors and understand the mechanism of this mysterious effect of Worship.

The project involved: Alexander Galkin, Dmitry Zabavin, Alice Ioffe, Sergey Ogurtsov, Alexei Pankin, Andrew cuts, Nikolai Ridny, David Ter-Oganyan, Valya Fetisov, Roman Ess.

About. Anatoly Osmolovsky

At the exhibition «Mausoleum riot» work by young artists. For most of the authors participated in the exhibition - the debut. They started in a difficult time: the era of unlimited growth (whether economic, informational) was, remained a huge construction site, all besprent unfinished «objects». But long ago there is a suspicion that the building is being recklessly and wantonly and the only natural result of this enterprise - the collapse and disaster. In this nedostroe, these ruins have to live a long time. The ruins of these - a monument to vanity. It is therefore natural that the main intention of the young artist - to try to give at least some sense of the surrounding reality.

As the result we have? Dozens if not hundreds of unfinished projects of various kinds are not designed and not designed ideas and forms, a bunch of social initiatives and institutions that have never been nor will be formed, nor is running.

Do I need to build something, adding yet another construction site, or better to try to deal with the fact that we have?

So there is the idea of works - completion of unfinished meaningful.

In fact, the previous stage of mainly characterized activism: no matter that, for the sake of which, the main thing - to do. Active, energetic man valued above human wisdom and depth. In the present circumstances such a luxury we can not afford. Because the main advantage to recognize the existence of an action plan to advance the well-known goal, but it is the return of works of art in art. For the work begins with conception. Continues as a system of well-planned action and ends artifact filled with meaning. And here we are witnessing the revolt, revolt against the new generation of artists and amorphous reckless activism, against all and any initiatives that do not have any of their explicit goals, nor its final, and the endless institutional «Art», generates no one needed a vague «Organization» modern «Horn and hoof» from the famous novel by Ilf and Petrov.

Today, the task of the modern artist is to give meaning and completeness of all the newly rehabilitated in the era of postmodern media. This post, rather than the avant-garde purism, returned back to the practice of art and painting and painting, and the subject - almost all proscribed avant-garde (especially conceptualism) media. But the return would have been ironic, the game - a bit timid, protective joke and even sweepstakes. Now is time for meaningful work with those returning back media.

Young artists feel (know) this task. Therefore, their work was not to thoughtlessly finding some new media (what were the artists in the zero years), whether some unknown new technologies or antihudozhestvennye social action, not their job - it is giving rehabilitated media forms completed works. Of course, the finish looks like it still has a skeleton or frame. In fact, the first step is to identify the main structural axes of a work of art. (One of these formal axis is the internal symmetry artifact.)

Another important attribute for the product should be recognized aura. This term, introduced by Benjamin, has a different interpretation. Most agree that the product creates an invisible auraticheskoe distance between the audience and themselves. The creation of this range - a difficult task. One of the available techniques can be considered to make the artifact intonation cult object, that is, an object with a more sublime use. Imitation cult creates the desired atmosphere, which is only exacerbated by the very fact of a simulation. In the absence of a cult aura becomes artistic reception. The presence of clearly defined artistic reception allows to identify a new artistic direction - auratizm.

grouped in a collective exhibition of artifacts that have a distinct effect auraticheskim create a new group exhibition. Of course, the exhibition is an exhibition, but the highest form auraticheskogo the ensemble can be considered a mausoleum (mausoleum competes with the church). Combination of youth rebellion against the incompleteness and auratizatsii works of art gives us is nothing but a tomb Mutiny.

The exhibition is open to the public from 16 April to 31 May.

Source: press release Stella Art Foundation