"Ostalgiya" on the socialist past in an exhibition in New York
ARTinvestment.RU   14 июля 2011

In the New Museum (New York) presents "Ostalgiya", bringing together 50 artists working in 20 countries in Eastern Europe and former Soviet republics

New Museum, New York, July 14 - September 25, 2011 < /em>

Today at New Museum in New York opens the exhibition "Ostalgiya", bringing together the work of more than 50 artists from 20 countries in Eastern Europe and former Soviet republics. Claiming the conditional format of geographical survey, the curators have included in the exhibition and the work of Western authors about the realities and myths of the Eastern bloc.

ZARVA
Untitled.
2001 Series "Spark»
Source: newmuseum.org

curator Massimiliano Joni (Massimiliano Gioni) named his show the German word" ostalgiya "- as in the early 1990s became known as East Germans nostalgic for the GDR, or in a broader sense - a nostalgia for the departed socialist past in the so-called socialist camp. The exhibition introduces the works of art created in these countries and these countries. The exhibition conveys the atmosphere in which the whole community and each person individually to form a new relationship to history, geography and ideology.

Some papers "Ostalgii" devoted to the collapse of the socialist system: in the form of stories the artist tells about life during the "before" and "after" of communism. Romanian artist Irina Bota (Irina Botea), for example, took video of the 1989 revolution , stylized television in those years. And Phil Collins (Phil Collins) interviews a teacher of Marxism have lost their jobs and life guidance after the Berlin Wall. The legendary photographer Helga Paris (Helga Paris) presents portraits of factory workers divided Germany, and Vladimir Arkhipov exhibits photos his collection of home-made household items, invented by Russian economic crisis during the early 1990s.

PHIL COLLINS
scene from the movie" Marxism Today ". 2010
Source: newmuseum.org

core of the exhibition - works by Russian artists, referring us to the origins of Moscow Conceptualism and other areas domestic Contemporary Art. Strong pictures here Erik Bulatov , installations Andrew Monastery , drawings and photos Osmolovsky adjoin the eccentric self-portraits Alexander Lobanov , video art, poetry humdrum , ritualistic work Victor and Eugene Alimpiev Antufeva. Art group "What to do?" Recreates chronicle the collapse of the Soviet bloc. Next to the portraits, taken by Bakharevs on Siberian beaches, you can see sexy pictures of 14 year old Yevgeny Kozlov, collected 150 pages of his album Leningrad.

Drafted as a visual archive, the exhibition "Ostalgiya" emphasizes the unique role of the artist in the socialist countries - the role of an outcast at the same time, the seer and witness. Miniature sculpted models Gleknera Hermann (Hermann Glöckner) displayed next to the urban fantasy Paul Peppershtein and space research Stanislaus Shary. Films of Polish workers, backed up by Neil Cummings (Neil Cummings) and Marusia Lewandowski (Marysia Lewandowska) enter into a dialogue with a mysterious new interpretation of religious sculptures, Miroslav Batken (Mirostaw Batka).

«Ostalgiya" not brings uniformity to the history of art in the former Eastern bloc: in many respects like the atmosphere and the feeling of the inhabitants of that region in each country has its own peculiarities, "ostalgiya" - is a state of mind rather than a particular point in time.

Prepared Onuchina Maria, AI

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