Today in the Central House of Artists presents "Artist. Fate. Time ", prepared by the gallery" Ars Longa "," Art-Ra "and" Expo 88 "

Today, 25 February, at the Central House of Artists (room number 23) opens the exhibition "Artist. Fate. Time ", prepared by the gallery" Ars Longa "," Art-Ra "and" Expo 88 ".

Artists who joined the project, belong to different generations, but the origins of their creative destiny belong to the era of socialist realism. By the era - as an interval of time, with "artistic" the ideology of that time, they existed in parallel: do not resist, did not protest, did not adjust - who worked as a janitor who nurse who is a restorer, has successfully registered the book, interrupted hudfondovskimi orders and created the mounted work " in the table. "

The habit of official artistic fraternity divide the world into their own and others attributed them to a stranger and alien. Their work was apolitical. They creatively developing plastic ideas of Western European art of XX century, integrating them on Russian soil, restoring damaged relations with the world. The very existence of these works gradually changed the rigorous spirit of the time, preparing the base to the current pluralism. Their work observably, they remained faithful to the profession, the chosen method, and - despite any conflicts of time and fate - held, survived. As in those times, and in these - in a new era of not yielding to demands of the market, salon, continuing its search for solutions to difficult path of plastic, scenic, aesthetic, placing at the center of the criterion of artistic quality - concepts, vanishing from our lives.

I think their finest hour has struck in the early 1990's, when our practice appeared previously unknown profession gallerists, dealers, curators, art fair opened, staffed with an active personal and corporate collections - the process does not have to work with the ideological and artistic issues with . Private galleries of all sizes have begun to play a prominent role in the artistic process. It is thanks to the gallerists sounds, gathering strength, the name of Vladimir V. Dynnikova artist (on his show, see here. - AI.), Not gone into oblivion the names of A. Buch and A. Slepysheva, attracting the attention of this antique market. Gallery ARS Longa Moscow audience acquainted with the work of authors from St. Petersburg VA Lucca, L. Kazbekova, V. Chmutin; ART-RA - with the work of Volgograd P. Zverhovskogo and G. Vyatkina. All these shows have expanded the boundary representations of Russia's art of the second half of the XX century, which existed outside the Moscow Ring Road and the emergence in the 1990 set of informal associations, organizations and private initiatives, it became known outside the country.

Russia's Nineties ended in 1998. The rapid process of discovery, the events went down. The fate of most of our authors are not simple: for the official Soviet art, they were too cosmopolitan, powerful transavangardnaya wave carried them to the "pluperfect" and to the general public they were too intellectual and elitist.

This project is not accidental is shown in the days of antique fabric: the art of public attention is focused on that reservoir of domestic art, which is already tomorrow there will be irrevocably and unidentified contemporaries, the work of artists in which the synthesized fundamental domestic art school, the idea of Russian modernism 1910-20 -- ies, plastic quest of Western European art of XX century, Russia's mentality and a bright personality.

The exhibition will run until March 7.