ARTinvestment.RU is photo essay from the exhibition Avdeev Ter-Oganyan, Valery Koshlyakov, Yuri Shabelnikova "Company" Art or Death "

Yesterday in the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (Gogol Boulevard, 10) in the exhibition "Company" Art or Death "there was a meeting with members of the Association of Valery Koshlyakov , Yuri Shabelnikova and project curator Olga Golovanova, as well as a presentation of the book "Company" Art or Death "».

Association "Art or Death" was formed in Rostov-on-Don in the process of a group of young artists from 1986 to 1990. During this time there have been three notorious exhibition, which crystallized the ideological orientation of the group. Her debut was successful against the background of the crisis of the late conservative culture. The province is perceived more acute.

group included artists Valery Koshlyakov, Avdeev Ter-Oganyan , Yuri Shabelnikova, Nikolai Konstantinov, Alexander Kislyakova Basil Slepchenko, poets, Miroslav Nemirova and Igor Burenina, rock musician Sergei Timofeyev, administrator Vsevolod Lisowski. Friendship artists have formed in the walls of the Rostov Art School named MBGrekov. Combined all the restructuring, rock festivals, the underground life of outcasts.

Name of the Association "Art or Death", rising to the famous revolutionary slogan Patria o Muerte, - is a fundamental attitude toward art. Art, and no hack-work and compromises. This was the life principle, which remains valid today.

A retrospective exhibition of the Association "Art or Death" - this is the first attempt to identify early work of artists recognized by one of the most important figures in contemporary art of Russia: Valery Koshlyakov, Ter-Oganyan Avdeev and Yuri Shabelnikova. Later period of creativity of these artists are known to viewers and art critics, recorded in museum collections. The more interesting and more important to show the background, the very beginning of their development, which was no less important and striking than the subsequent artistic career members.

The exhibition features more than 200 paintings, drawings, and installations and facilities. The exhibition is accompanied by a unique documentary photographs and videos.

Participants of the project "Partnership" Art or Death ": Nikolai Konstantinov, artist, Valery Koshlyakov, artist; Alexander Sigutin , an artist, Vasily Slepchenko, artist; Avdey Ter-Oganyan, artist, Yuri Shabelnikov, artist.

Photo and commentary by Vladimir Bogdanov, AI, prepared for the forum ARTinvestment.RU, you can see here .

Exhibition "Company" Art or Death "opened at the State Museum of Contemporary Art of Arts (Gogol Boulevard, 10) until October 25.