"The Unbearable creative freedom" in ENEA
ARTinvestment.RU   30 сентября 2010

The exhibition is devoted to the 35 anniversary of the legendary show at the House of Culture ENEA 145 nonconformist artists

Today, September 30, the DC ENEA opens the exhibition "The Unbearable freedom of creation", organized by officers of contemporary art at the Tretyakov Gallery Kirill Alekseyev and Cyril Svetlyakovym.

30 September 1975 in the House of Culture ENEA held a legendary show, which was attended by 145 artists, nonconformists who are unable to show their work in other places. Among them - Anatoly Zverev , Anatoly Zhigalov Joseph Kiblitsky William Bruï, Natta Konysheva , Eugene Kropiwnicki , Rostislav Lebedev , Michael Odnoralov , Oscar Rabin , Mikhail Roginsky , Boris Turkish , a group of "Nest", a group of "Hair" and other artists. Many of them became well-known masters of modern art.

Despite the three-hour queue sorokagradusnoe heating in the building, closed windows, and other inconveniences, for ten days the exhibition was visited by tens of thousands of spectators. It was a real triumph of the "other art". Exhibition remember "solid" paintings hanging in space, is clearly not intended for them, and many countries for those times exhibits, such as "Coats" Michael Odnoralov, "Hippovsky flag" of "Hair" and the band "Jack" sitting in This nest with a "Hush! Is an experiment !».

exhibition revealed the mass movement of "dissent" of artists, changing the status of "other art».

possible and whether such exhibition today, when modern art shows at many sites in Moscow and the artists have no problem with the show works? After all, there are many institutions who wish to take in his arms a young artist, and the system of the art market and show business debugged and stable.

answer is simple: It is possible and necessary, because in a modern situation which is often compared to "an era of stagnation" of the 1970's, the artist must also be "another».

aims and objectives of the exhibition project:

1. Reconstruction. The project involves the reconstruction of the fragmentary exhibitions of 1975. This means that a number of historical works will be shown in precisely those places where they are hung at an exhibition in 1975. This reconstruction will expository "skeleton" inside and outside which will show works by young artists.

2. Ephemerality. Exhibition in 1975 became legendary, and because the participants of the jubilee exhibition is invited to reflect on the theme of aesthetic and artistic "legends". Jubilee exhibition demonstrates is not art, but rather what remains of them, literally traces of their presence, evidence of their potential resonance.

3. Dedication. The anniversary exhibition will update the post-Soviet problems of consciousness and the present Soviet "subconscious", given the fact that many contemporary artists have consistently appealed to the Soviet aesthetics.

4. Outside the institution. Exhibition in 1975 showed unacceptable and acceptable boundaries of artistic freedom. The present boundaries of the freedom given to those institutions that govern contemporary art, many artists are quite comfortable in there. This is sort of new "civilized" level of conformism.

exhibition brings together three generations of artists that will clarify the dynamics of the artistic process over the past 35 years.

The exhibition includes works by artists and art groups: P. Lebedev, V. Skersis, M. Odnoralov, L. Juice , Albert Yu , I. Kiblitsky William Bruï, B. Piatnitski , V. Andrievich, A. Yulikov , S. Faibisovich , I. Voroshilov , P. Belenok , E. Drobitsky, S. Shablavin , N. Konysheva , N. Abalakova, A. Zhigalov B. Koleichuk, M. Spindler , A. Nasonov, R. Tavasiev , D. Machulina, M. Smirennomudrensky, T. Karaffa-Korbut, Nedda, S. Katran, S. Yaralov, Vorontsov, A. Dorozhkina, A. Lysov, G. Yushchenko, A. Jiliaev, K. Sorokina. Group «ARTRAUM», «ICP», «Peace.Da».

exhibition will run until October 21, 2010.

Source: press release the State Tretyakov Gallery