Exhibition of video art in the MMSI

MMSI, July 11 - August 14, 2011

Today, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (Gogol Boulevard, 10) opens the exhibition of video art "home video". Curators: Karin Karaev, Vitaly Patsukov. Participants: fish is (Russia), Dmitry Bulnygin (Russia), Dmitry Vilensky (Russia), Zaibi (Russia), George Litichevsky (Russia), Daria Marchik (Russia), Natasha Merritt (USA), Alexander Mitlyanskaya (Russia), Laure Pruvos (UK), Vladimir Salnikov (Russia), Kirill Serebrennikov (Russia), Jaan Toomik (Estonia), Sergei Shutov (Russia), Grigory Yushchenko (Russia), Maxim Yakubson (Russia).

Dmitry Bulnigin Oh, no, no, no, no, 3'30. 2009 Source: MMSI press release

Project «Home video» explores the phenomenon of home shooting certainly has historical roots, but also professes a particular visual context that influenced the development of video art. The exhibition will showcase the work objectively and subjectively related to the genre of home video.

Thus, in Dmitri Bulnygin raises the question of the adequacy and consistency of concepts such as "star" in contemporary culture, media, recognition, and "people from the audience." distance between them is an impossibility and at the same time the viewer a desire to try on the mask, the arts, or rather those behind He is responsible, it interprets its stores and in a sense, it focuses on his own person. So artistic experiment Dmitry Bulnigin allows the event to be documentary evidence, in which the character's actions to get rid of their status, desakraliziruyutsya. desacralization process partly occurs when shooting a personal diary. < /p>

DZYURLIKOVSKA Magdalena My Secret Life. 2010 Source: Press Release MMSI

American artist Natasha Merritt offers its own intimate diary. Brought by a certificate, it is an interpretation of a segment of life a particular artist, as well as a form of artistic expression, which disappears aesthetic, but there is a personal one. Films made under the laws of the home video, different absolute freedom of speech, in which there is no ban on image, word and deed. Home video is a mirror of events internally labeled a certain sign, relevance and quality.

Under the "home video" of the work relating to the style of home video, will be presented as an installation, as well as will feature fine art commentary, which will explore the work through the prism of artistic behavior.

Source : MMSI press release