Today in Krokin Gallery opens exhibition of Vladimir Sitnikov “Plans”

Today, June 25, in Krokin Gallery opens exhibition of Vladimir Sitnikov «plans» (graphics, objects).

The author of the exhibition: ... Old idea, interprets «Museum» as true «Temple of Art», in today suddenly acquires a new meaning, «new relevance», and some popular. As never before, one can observe the huge human mass of committing a sort of pilgrimage to places of mega-gala events, exhibitions, shows, events.

It feels like every single person in this vast flow of human striving through the endless halls «Pantheon Arts»? The exhibition grounds and the area of large and small museums like mazes, where the viewer feels the threat of lost vividly, if not lost, just divide. In a meeting with the art of mystery - it's amazing and often overwhelms the audience that he had no other than to flee. In lieu of or as a «Ariadne threads» in his own hand the museum visitor is surrounded by hanging around on the walls and sulyaschimi saving evacuation plans.

objects were made in plexiglass, seems at first sight is real «rescue plans», but they produced the effect, unfortunately, misleading, they are not in place and in case of danger - are useless. Plans are in terms of pure pragmatists only illyuzionistskie forgery, which once again assume its present meaning as an abstract symbol to the position of «a museum - a temple of art». Its objects, as well, and indeed art in general, there is nothing more than an «optical illusion» - the illusion, through which the observer «Salvation» is not found. «Plans» not operate from a practical point of view in a particular space, but operate on its own aesthetic laws - namely, as an art.

Vladimir Sitnikov was born in 1958 in Moscow. In 1985 graduated from Moscow Polygraphic Institute, Faculty of book graphics. Display began in 1986, and in the 1992-meters was his first personal exhibition. Since 1995, lives and works in Germany and Russia.

Floor Plan of Krokin Gallery (Big Polianka, 15) is open until 19 July 2009. Gallery Hours: Monday to Saturday from 11.00 to 19.00, Sunday from 10.00 to 16.00.

Source: krokingallery.com