The exhibition is organized fund Stella Art Foundation

The Museum of Art History in Vienna (Kunsthistorisches Museum) an exhibition of works of

This is not the first exhibition of Stella Art Foundation in the walls of Vienna's museum: in 2008 there was an exhibition " That Obscure Object of Art ", which includes works from the Foundation in 2009 in the halls of the Northern Renaissance and Baroque was a draft Igor Makarevich and Elena Elagina «in situ». And now, in rooms where exposed collection of Greek and Roman classical art, an exhibition of one of the founders of Sots Art Boris Orlov.

In anticipation of the exhibition foundation president Stella Kesayeva said: "We have to admit that we do not immediately have chosen the Russian artist for this project. I hope that our choice was correct. Boris Orlov, an unusually thin and plastic accurately included contemporary works in the ancient halls of one of the best museums in the world. I believe that sculpture is well remembered by Orlova western audiences after this project and this exhibition will be the starting point for a remarkable artist ».

• bust in the spirit of Rastrelli. 1996
  bronze and enamel. 70 x 40 x 18
  Source: safmuseum.org

Kunsthistorisches Museum possesses one of the most valuable collections of ancient art, world. In the halls of the permanent exhibition includes about 2500 works, including collection of Greek vases and Roman portraits, a collection of cameos, including the famous "Gemma in August, the gold from the treasure Nadsentmikloshskogo, fragments of the Parthenon, rare bronze works - such as the statue" Young men from Magdalensberga and sign "Decree of the Senate of the orgy».

Works Boris Orlov fits in the exhibit naturally and effectively. In many ways, the ancient environment is key to understanding the intentions of the artist. The main subject of his interest are the signs of imperial style. Antiquity has generated "reference" to the Western world empire - Rome, which became the prototype for all subsequent ones, such as German, the Holy Roman Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the Middle Ages, the Soviet Union and the United States in modern times.

In anticipation of the exhibition, Boris Orlov said: "This exhibition demonstrates the example of the Soviet empire universal model. In this project, I do not sing the empire, rather I am it is cold and ironic researcher who seeks to enter into the most primal subconscious layers of heroic motivation ».

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result of creativity Boris Orlov become the formula of a large imperial style. Eagles extracts and visualizes the archetypes and arhemodeli sovereign consciousness. Especially the artist selects a heroic and triumphant as the major external features of any empire. Orlov said that he wanted to portray "the empire as the highest embodiment of vseobedinyayuschey will pomposity tempting greatness, hypertrophic ostentation, triumphalism, claims to global". It should be noted that the irony of the artist deprives these images of the seriousness which characterized the official art.

Architectural adjusted Orlova sculpture in wood and bronze, covered with bright enamel, synthetic embody the image of the ideal hero of all time empires, and in common with the heroic characters of antiquity. Thus, the "Imperial bust" that connects the classic Caesar with his head and torso of the revolutionary sailor's cap with the "Aurora", located opposite the sculptural portrait of Caesar, captured the Emperor in his last years. Images commanders Zhukov and Belisarius, once great, but then rejected by their masters, are combined into one split and "reconstructed" the bust of the hero, which will be shown in a hall with portraits of Roman emperors and patricians. Bright enamel "parsuna" composed of large orders were "dies" in a design reminiscent of totem to worship, take a few windows. Over Roman mosaics depicting Theseus, the aircraft will be suspended, connecting features of the Soviet and German characters. In the showcase in the hall with antique figurines will accommodate small elegant porcelain busts of Stalin, in which the standard classical architectural details of the grandiose buildings of the Stalin era crowned head of the leader like the turbans of Oriental sovereigns.

Boris Orlov Zhukov - Belisarius. 2010 Pottery, lead. 37 x 18 x 22 Source: safmuseum.org

polystylism - one of the leading principles Orlova, allowing to reduce the signs of various times in absolute integrity of the work. In the same holistic field for experimentation is presented in his understanding of history. The artist says the continuing manifestation of recurrence of the "heroic" and "imperial": "Heroic circle - birth, triumph, fall, dive into primary matter, and a new cycle, so round and round." Eagles constructs an ideal model of reincarnation in the Vienna Museum of Art History.

exhibition will run until March 20, 2011.

Source: safmuseum.org