SRM, April 28 - June 20, 2011

Today in the Marble Palace, State Russian Museum opens Exhibition "Gates and Doors". The exhibition presents about 90 works by 80 authors, among them: VA , Bogdanov-Belsky , A. Laktionov , I. Kabakov , A. Brodsky, Kulik , Roginskaya , I. Makarevich , Bugaev-Africa , Kolesnikov and Sergei Denisov, Yuri Alexandrov, L. Borisov , Yakovlev , I. Gaponov and VK Koteshov, Brui , «Thanatos Banionis, Idzuru Midzutani, E . Gubanov and AI Grisha, M. Fedorova , and Sophia Severin, Infante, V. Grigoriev, Bashun.

Ilya Kabakov, Emilia Kabakov Toilet. 2004 installation. 228 x 126 Source: rusmuseum.ru

SEVERIN Infante, SOFIA INFANT From the series" The Practice of light . 2009 Photography, svetoinstallyatsiya. 90 x 120 Source: rusmuseum.ru

concept of the exhibition allows you to ponder over the variety of meaning levels of understanding of these images: the gates with all the concomitant associative-metaphorical next refer to the sublime, spiritual, metaphysical; door marked decrease in tone, facing if not the household, then to the earth. Images of "gates and doors, are deeply rooted in the culture and become the entrance to a picturesque space, space paintings, art objects.

In recent years, the science of art are increasingly turning their attention the "rules of contemplation." Eyes, raised on classical art, easily goes from the Real into a map and back, through a kind of "predprostranstvo. This is the door, the gate into the picture. Open - in the case of the "classic pattern". Half-closed, and even boarded up, requiring the efforts of certain key - in the case of other works, such as non-objective, such as.

Works, which is made up of exposure, can be divided into three Category: Spiritual and religious, plot-mimetic-thematic and substantive. This is the main line of navigation, to help navigate the submission.

The exhibition begins in the courtyard of the Marble Palace, where the entrance to the museum house built object "Rotonda" Alexander Brodsky from the Perm Museum of Modern art. "Rotunda", the author's idea, intended "to enter, light a fire in the fireplace and enjoy the scenery." Landscape is included in the interior on all sides by doorways, compiled into a wall. Climbing the stairs of the Marble Palace on the third floor, the audience meets other interactive exhibits, objects, "In and Out" (2010) Ivan and Elena Govorkova Gubanova, «Closed» (2009-2010) Olga Tatarintseva and Oleg Tatarintseva.

IVAN Grisha, Elena Gubanova input and output. 2010 object. Plywood, metal, enamel, oil, silver print. Source: rusmuseum.ru

religious themes in the exhibition is presented primarily exhibits of ancient art. This is - Holy Doors, Side door of the iconostasis of the XVI century received by the Russian Museum in 1913 from the collection of NPLikhachev, and an icon of "Our Lady impassable door" (Solvychegodsk, XVII century). In the Christian interpretation of the gates symbolize the entrance into the kingdom of heaven in the epithet "The Door of Salvation", relating to the Virgin Mary ("Hail the door is one ...") or Christ ("One Door of Salvation"), as well as the appropriate design of the Royal Doors in the temple. Sharing the earthly world and the heavenly, earthly and sacred, a world of sinners and the righteous, the doors their images called to make the transition not only physically from one state to another, but primarily internal, contributed to the clarification and improvement. Often refer to religious themes and contemporary artists. Andrey Mishin, made of bronze massive "Temple Doors" (2009-2010) to house-chapel in the Small Izhora, Vladimir Kozin («Hell" and "Paradise", 2009) collects the images of heaven and hell from traditional to him as "poor" materials.

Vladimir Kozin paradise. 2009 Car tires, wire, twisting, electric lights. 61 x 65 x 20 Source: rusmuseum.ru

in modern art is widespread enough appeal to archaic ritual practices - the artists Ivan Ivy and Irina Drozd in the song "Mask of Death" (2010) involve the viewer in a kind of ritual action. Several large - a man's height - masks, arranged one after the other, a symbolic role gates, through which there is a person as the bearer of some social signs. Group "Thanatos Banionis" in the object-screen involved the philosophical and cultural ideas about the formation gates, paths and transition, the accumulated traditions of the East in general and military experience in Japan mid-twentieth century in particular. The work by Yuri Alexandrov, concentrated on a fragment of the human stream - upcoming consecrated to overcome the situation, ready selfless "take" an invisible opening in the new space and time, a similar high syllable elect William Brui in a picturesque series Etrus "where the motive is clearly readable Arch. Artists are sacred symbols in everyday objects and locations: In the installation by Ilya Gaponov and Cyril Koteshova faceless miners lockers to store clothing in s quarters become participants in the daily ritual of a deadly work. In the installation "Parents" Eugene Gore presents the processes of birth and death as a passage through a mysterious door. In the contour objects Marina Fedorova - outlines of people with wings - each person gets as a door for another.

reverse side of the religious fervor and traditional for the artistic consciousness, the image of the door includes compliance, and overcoming certain boundaries. Installation "Birth of the agent" Sergei Bugaev (Africa) was a result of its joint action with Sergey Anufriev : entering into sculpture Vera Mukhina «Worker and Peasant" through the door beneath the skirt collective farmers, they symbolically deprived of virginity is one of the main characters USSR. Oleg Kulik entrance opens its quest for eternal philosophical videoskulpturoy "In the depths of Russia," using the anatomy of a cow and not randomly choosing a sacred animal for many ethnic groups.

second line of navigation - the plot-thematic. In the XVIII century image of the door often has no specific semantic load: it is part of the environment. At the beginning of XIX century, the motif takes on a symbolic meaning. A special place in the context of topics of interest to us is creativity Vasily Vereshchagin, in particular its historical and ethnographic canvas "at the doors of the mosque" (1873). Russian realist school tends to interpret everything as zadvernoe better - happier, furnished, secure. The hero of Nikolai Bogdanov-Belsky, the hope for the future is on the border, leaving behind already earned them the world ("At the door of the school, 1897), or on the porch of the old one, which requires home repair, which looks sunny, peaceful tomorrow (Alexander Laktionov Letter from the front, "1962).

to story category also includes work Vladimir Shinkareva («Guest), Igor Makarevich, Viktor Pivovarov , Dmitry Shorin , Zorikto Swayed, Mikhail Karasik . Triumphal arch motif sounds in Vladimir Duhovlinova («Arch of Titus") as well as in Paul Filonov (« Narva Gate, 1929). Door as an object of the show begins to transform and becomes an optical trap by Leonid Borisov scheme football goal at Anatoly Belkin , banal an underground passage from Valery Potapova, "wall" of the defenders of the gate in the photo Vita Buivid .

PETER SHVETSOV Tile. 2009 installation. Sizes range Source: rusmuseum.ru

third line of navigation --mimetic subject matter. Series of works by Mikhail Roginsky 1960 featuring ordinary, everyday items has been completed fabrication of this three-door, through which the artist was searching for an outlet to the authenticity of the artwork. Vadim Vadim Voinov includes a door found in the collage "Tripod", Inal Savchenkov paints a picture "whaling" on the door of his studio . Gate in the garden of George Molchanov also becomes a product - a sculpture of an "organic" trend, dedicated to the memory Michael Matyushina . Anton Uspensky in a series of photographs "Bodily Architecture" (2007) focuses on the historical features of the door, and the traces left by time. These quality doors, as a duality (input - output), the unpredictable, played upon in the works of Mary Koshenkovoy, Ivan Kolesnikov and Sergei Denisov, group «Milk & Vodka», Anton Chumak, Annie Acorn , Marina Alexeeva, Alexander Jikia , Lyudmila Belova and others.

Source : Press Release Timing