Today the State Center of Contemporary Art opens the exhibition Summa Summarum, which will bring together in one space, visual culture, literature, music, cinema and video art

Today, 18 January at 19.00 in the State Center for Contemporary Art opens the exhibition Summa Summarum. This project is the nation's first exhibition shows contemporary art practice, the idea as a collage, where in one area may find visual culture, literature, music, film and video art.

technology collage, opened at the beginning of XX century as a real bonding of dissimilar materials, in today's culture is not only an element of technology, but also an instrument of thought, its methodology. This artistic way of thinking combines both materials and genres of art. He turns into a strategy and more - considers itself the human body as a kind of collage with elements of a secondary nature, returning to his unit in brikollazh, describes this new form of Claude Levi-Strauss.

Every art exhibition in the Contemporary Art Center presented a certain number of names in which we find as our contemporaries, as well as representatives of the classical avant-garde culture of the XX century.

central part of the exhibition is devoted to collage thinking in different technologies visual art and installations presented Ilya Kabakov (USA, Russia), Vladimir Tarasov (Lithuania, Russia), and Leonid Tishkov (Russia), objects Grisha Bruskin (USA, Russia), Ekaterina Kovaleva (Russia), Boris Orlov (Russia), Andreas Slonimski (Germany) and Natalia Turnova (Russia), painting Alexis Rockman (USA), Sarah Jane Flor (USA), Vladimir Yankylevsky (Russia, France), Vladimir Salnikov (Russia), photos Igor and Svetlana Kopystyanskih (Germany, Russia), Oleg Kulik (Russia), Tony Matelli (USA), Boris Mikhailov (Germany, Ukraine), Vika Myunisa ( USA), collages Vagricha Bahchanyana (USA, Russia), Joseph Beuys (Germany), Vyacheslav Koleychuk (Russia ), Vladimir Nemukhin (Russia), Victor Pivovarov (Czech Republic, Russia), Oscar Rabin (France, Russia), Irina Temushkinoy (Italy, Russia).

special place in the drama of the exhibition is video art and cinema: fragments of works Pina Bausch (Germany), Bill Viola (USA ), Dziga Vertov (Russia), Marcel Duchamp (France), Nam June Paik (USA), Hans Richter (Germany), Zbigniew Ribchinsky (USA), Man Ray (France), Fischli and Weiss (Switzerland), Andy Warhol (United States ), collected in a single space project Paul Labazov become plastic epigraph to the entire exposition. Modern cinema and video art works presented Andrew Khrzhanovsky (Russia), Kirill Serebrennikov (Russia) and Marina Chernikova (Russia, the Netherlands). Literature, theater and music is also considered in the historical discourse, where one may find the horizontal "read" the poetry of Kurt Schwitters (Germany) and Lev Rubinstein (Russia), minimalism music by Vladimir Martynov (Russia) Andrei Smirnov (Russia) and John Cage ( USA), theatrical experiments with the object and the performer Dmitry Krymov (U.S.).

collage thinking destroys the autonomous existence of certain types and genres of art, being one of the main factors mezhditsiplinarnogo unity of modern radical culture. Hard to draw the dividing line between acoustic and visual image of existence in the work by Vladimir Tarasov, cinema and theater in the work of Kirill Serebrennikov, poetry and performances in the shares of Lev Rubinstein. Going beyond "their" form of art, works are transformed into a single organism Summa Summarum, has found a balance in the nonlinear situation, "the new agreement».

The exhibition is open to the public from 19 January to 14 February 2010.

Source: ncca.ru