In the CHA an exhibition “Russian lettrizm”, organized within the framework of the 4-th Moscow International Book Festival opened

In the CHA an exhibition «Russian lettrizm», organized within the framework of the 4-th Moscow International Book Festival opened.

Lettrizm - artistic, aesthetic course, founded in 1946 in Paris. Creative credo lettrizma - theoretical and practical systematics letters ( lettre ) in all areas of aesthetics : character - the main element in all kinds of arts - visual, aural, plastic, architectural, zhestualnogo.

Adept pure art in the late nineteenth century condemned enslaved fine art literary, narrative type of consciousness. But the Russian artist's attachment to the text, word, letter, the font has not been able to cancel even the avant-garde formalism. This is - a constant of national art, traces of which are already discernible in the ancient Russian icons.

Full disclosure and it is a manifestation of our time, especially to the entire range of the latest art. All of our artists - from analysts to conceptualists peresmeshnikov social art and windy punk graffitistov - write not only paintings and images, and texts and letters. In combination of both.

The exhibition demonstrates the diversity of these combinations, as well as the output of artists to new genres and types of works in which the image is completely replaced by verbal expression and the composition is constructed as a sequence of letters. Hence the relevance of the term «lettrizm» (from Lat. «Letter»), while the French invented, but is ideally placed on the material of Russian art.

The curator of the exhibition - Andrei Erofeev.

The exhibition is open to 8-10 in the halls of CHA Krymsky Val until June 28, 2009.

Photos from the exhibition can be seen here .

Material prepared Elena Vladimirova, AI

Source: mmkf.finch.fm , a press release CHA, yanko.lib.ru , artinvestment.ru