As part of a parallel program of the Venice Biennale in the museum Ka'Retstsoniko Stella Art Foundation will organize an exhibition «That Obscure Object of Art». Russian Art 1975-2005 biennium. from the collection of Stella Art Foundation

Stella Art Foundation, in collaboration with the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia in the parallel program of the Venice Biennale 2009 presents the exhibition «That Obscure Object of Art», Vladimir Levashova curatorial project. The exhibition will be held in one of the most beautiful palaces in Venice, the museum Ka'Retstsoniko. The exposition will include about 70 works by renowned Russian artists from the collections of Stella Art Foundation, including works by Yuri Albert , Ivan Chuikov , Ilya and Emilia Kabakov , Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid , Boris Orlov , Anatoly Anatoly Osmolovsky and Alexander Ponomarev, who in the exhibition will present a draft SubTiziano. Landscape installation SubTiziano - this submarine surfacing in the historic center of Venice in the Grand Canal. It will continue to draft Alexander Ponomarev with submarines (1996-2009), entitled «Recycling flocks». The exhibition will run from 6 June to 5 October and will be one of the most significant projects of parallel programs in the 53rd Venice Biennale.

Stella Art Foundation supports artists in the declared major program of the 53rd Biennale, among them well-known kontseptualisty Elagina Elena and Igor Makarevich , Paul Peppershteyn and young authors Anna Parkin and Anya acorn.

President of Stella Art Foundation, Stella Kesaeva said: «I think it is important that at the beginning of the XXI century visual art, poetry and literature re-united. Following the traditions of Russian avant-garde early twentieth century, when famous artists and poets such as Mayakovsky, , Kruchenykh , Khlebnikov, Burliuk united in his work the different kinds of art, Russian contemporary artists and poets will attempt to recreate a saturated atmosphere of creativity ».

«That Obscure Object of Art»

Contemporary Russian art emerged and developed in a dual cultural isolation: in the closed from the outside world and the country in the form of underground art in the Soviet art system. Hence - the uniqueness of its structure, strategies, and shaping. As the leak, is the art of thought themselves an integral part of the world. As a complex and controversial, at international exhibitions, it reprezentirovalos extremely simplistic. In Soviet times - as one naively humanistic impulse to political and artistic freedom, after the restructuring - as a symbol of the democratization of art post-totalitarian countries, the critical thinking of its own past and present.

The curator of the exhibition Vladimir Levashov presents a new view on the Russian art of the late XX - early XXI century: «I think that now is the time to reflect and re-structured forms of art that existed the past 30 years in Russia. Our project is an alternative to the usual practice, the attempt to create one of the possible "self" Russian art of the 1970's - 2000's, which shows him as slozhnoustroenny, "hazy" object ».

The first version of the was shown in October - November 2008 in Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna . Venice version changes the focus, switching attention from the public «content» of the art to intricately related «form», its internal structures. The exhibition shows contemporary Russian art as the practice of constructing multiple worlds, weaving endless stories . In the narrative flow of blurred boundaries between authors and their characters, fantastically grouped stories and myths of diverse origin, connected pieces of text and visual images.

List of artists represented at the exhibition «That Obscure Object of Art»: Yuri Albert, Yuri Yuri Avvakumov , Vagrich Bahchanyan , Gor Chahal , Ivan Chuikov, Alexander Djikia, Gutov , Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, Vadim Kosmachev, Alexander Kosolapov , Vladislav Mamyshev (Monro) , Boris Orlov, Anatoly Osmolovsky, Alexander Ponomarev, Dmitry Prigov , Rezun-Zvezdochetova , Sokov , Leonid Tishkov , Vadim Vadim Zakharov , Constantin Stargazer .

Press Preview Exhibition will be held on 3 June from 10.00 to 15.00, and 4-5 June from 10.00 to 17.00.

The exhibition is open to visitors from 6 June to 5 October 2009, from 10.00 to 17.00, cash registers open until 16.00.

Source: press release Stella Art Foundation