Today the National Center for Contemporary Art opens to the general secondary school number 109 artistic and educational exhibition "Hand Book"

Today, January 19, at 14.00, National Center for Contemporary Art opens to the general secondary school number 109 (Street Academy Bakuleva, 20) art-education project "Hand Book».

aim of the project - promoting "domestication" of books and overcoming the alienation of items that exist between readers (including students) and a book. It is about reducing the distance between the reader and the book as essential to human life and culture of an object from the experience of participating in the creation of which students and the vast majority of adults are completely alienated throughout his life. The task of the exhibition - the statement in the minds of the audience (including students) sense of aesthetic irreplaceable books, created with the participation of artists and any other sources of information.

books on paper in the modern school - a and the daily, mandatory given (textbooks and required reading program), while "Dying nature, rather than by older students seem to prefer to deal with information from the Internet that often justified and necessary.

More "extinct in kind" in the school and all youth are well-published books. Books that cause pleasure for its high artistic quality and that readers, taking in hand, are perceived as genuine and interesting aesthetic objects that have almost disappeared from modern appliances, and the eyes and the hands of students such publications get even less.

exhibition "Hand Book" in the space of the school can be likened to the theater, which are "dressed in theatrical costumes" unique art model books out of paper, cloth, leather, wood and other materials. These books, objects, books, models, created by famous artists, designed for admiration, surprise, examining. Some of them can not read, but some can and read.

There is no denying the fact that among contemporary students already exists and continues to evolve with the book on paper almost as objects "primitive archaeological culture". In contrast, a similar relation exhibition "Hand Book" provides an opportunity to see and feel "of a book" (its imagery, aesthetics, construction, real), the exposition is intended to facilitate the perception of the actual book is not as technically and morally outdated means of storing and transmitting information, and as inexhaustible source and the object of aesthetic and intellectual interest, "pervoatoma" space culture. Books-a model clearly demonstrate to the audience that to keep them in their hands, touch their texture, to look at pictures, admire the building and the relationship of elements on a page and factors in fonts, texture, paper, binding, printing smell - irreplaceable texts on the computer screen.

exhibition "Hand Book" is accompanied by two master classes for students and teachers of schools that will artists - participants of the exhibition (26 January and 2 February, 13.00), round table with participation of the authors represented in the exhibition work (9 February, 13.00) and the contest, in which high school art students themselves try to create artistic models of books (3-16 February).

the exhibition "Hand Book" presented of artists: Ivana Alexandrova, Nikita Alexeev, Tatiana Antoshina , Vagricha Bahchanyana , Vasily Vlasov , Edward Gorokhovsky , Vladislav Efimov , Constantine Zvezdochetova , Valery Korchagin, Viktor Lukin, Igor Makarevich , Valery Orlov, Peter Perevezentseva, Michael Pogarskij, Dmitry Prigov , Oleg Prokofiev , Natalia blue, Vladimir Smolyar, Andrew Suzdaleva, Leonid Tishkov , Alexei Trubetskova, Henry Khudyakov, Igor Shelkovsky , Gunel Juran, Sergei Yakunin.

Curators Project "Hand Book»:
Yuri Samodurov, Senior Scientist NCCA
Viktor Lukin, artist

exhibition "Hand Book" will last until February 18, 2010.

Source: ncca.ru