Today in the gallery "Regina" opens in Moscow solo exhibition of "rational egoism" Arseny Zhilyaeva - one of the leaders of the young art of the Moscow art scene

Today, July 14, in the gallery " Regina "opens in Moscow solo exhibition of" rational egoism "Arseny Zhilyaeva - one of the leaders of the Young Art Moscow art scene.

Most research projects Zhilyaeva one way or another relate to the notions of utopia and nostalgia. Aware of their affiliation to the post-Soviet reality, the artist works with the theme of history through the clarification of relations between the utopian hopes of the past and the present.

new project of the artist of "rational egoism" quite an unexpected turn in his work. Even judging by the title, borrowed from the heritage Chernyshevskogo romance is off scale. Quote of the Russian revolutionary democrat was not accidental and not the first time becomes a source of inspiration Zhilyaeva (previous project - "Fourth Dream Faith"). "The book, written Tchernyshevskiy in prison, became the key to the formation of the Russian Revolution and Lenin's just a reference book. The novel is devoted to a new type of people - the future of revolutionaries who seek to embody the ideals of freedom, equality and fraternity, the fire which resulted in 50 years in one of the most significant events in modern history "- says the artist.

The project - a detective investigation, built by the canons of the genre neonuar. Young Artist zero, lamenting the tragic fate of the radical art of the last century, trying to find the lost utopia of the vanguard in breaking the post-Soviet critical discourse. As the author himself says, he "made a surprise for himself the role of private detective, wanted to order the missing Stories Vanguard". The other characters, in addition Arseny - are young at that time, the conquerors of the Moscow art scene, is literally the first official coming from underground. By thinking Zhilyaeva, the three major behalf - Osmolovskii , Kulik and senior Ter-Oganyan . Others found a hero on the way characters are also ranked by the expert community to the then living artistic turn of Olympus 1980-90-ies.

entire socio-cultural situation of that time considered Zhilyaeva through the avant-garde gesture of refusal in art. " Each scene of this narrative examines the momentum and the causal relationships manifestations void of artistic expression. All episodes of the story are presented primarily through the documentary, which has now been discredited and is located in the status of failure, whether the project "Against All Osmolovsky, who became a cog in the shallow end is not liberation, and ethically unacceptable political game, the idea of" transparency "of Oleg Kulik that transforms a personal touch in business or repetition of avant-garde gestures Avdyei Ter-Oganyanom, who turned radical art in the industry.

What is interesting in the fate of the protagonists - that their romantic loneliness, which is pushing artists to radicalization its existence on the territory of modern art and becomes a thread of history, a metaphor for the main plot of the investigation. Photos, emptiness and loneliness, evidence and pocket torches, bitter fate of the characters restless and disappointed in this detective - all this is only the main point synopsis of the project, which does not exhaust its visual component. A formal decision of the exhibition invites the viewer to recall the works of the great Carl Andre, also commits the once avant-garde gesture, but on the west, more prepared, the stage.

existence of a text expression in the form of visual rather than lexical - that expression non-being - offered as the refrain of "rational egoism". Visual constellations and sound-poetry - is something that can bring the modern young artist, and together with him and the viewer, to prochuvstvovaniyu significance of avant-garde gesture. Words are forms, sounds, all of anything, but not by the symbols of meaning. The investigation did not succeed. Latest Russian artists of XX century soon forget about the radicalization of the revolutionary impulse of youth and the avant-garde gesture of refusal. A situation that contributed to their formation, has itself become history, and the heroes themselves understand that "rational egoism" was not only Chernyshevsky, but also in Ayn Rand. But this is irrelevant. It has already been closed.

Arseny Zhilyaev, was born in 1984 in Voronezh. Graduate School of Fine Arts Valand, Gothenburg, Sweden and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia. Artist, curator, winner of Companion 2010 ", nominated for state award in the field of contemporary art" Innovation 2009 ". Participants in the group exhibitions "The lesson of history" (2010) in the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (curated by Joseph Backstein), "Russian art: the paradoxes of history" (2008), Sofia, Bulgaria; «Digital Media 1.0.» (2008), Valencia , Spain; Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (2007, 2009), Biennale of Young Art (2008); Fair Art Moscow (2008, 2007, 2006) and other works Zhilyaeva are in museum and private collections in Russia and Europe.

exhibition runs until September 4, 2010.

Source: reginagallery.com