Two different generations the sculptor - Boris Orlov and Sergei Shekhovtsov - joint efforts on the story of modern totems

Gallery XL, winery, 13 December 2011 - January 15, 2012
Moscow, 4th Syromyatnicheskiy Lane, 1 p. 6

Sergey Shekhovtsov Remix (with Boris Orlov), the object 1 Source: xlgallery.artinfo.ru

Sergey Shekhovtsov Remix (with Boris Orlov), object 2 Source: xlgallery.artinfo.ru

The Gallery XL is an exhibition of works of joint two sculptors - Boris Orlov and Sergei Shekhovtsova.

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good to look back and see that you are not alone. In 2008, Boris Konstantinovich Boris Orlov was awarded "comrade" and found that it is, if not students that associates a generation. This zero-artists, mentally independent from the so-called "Moscow Bromeliad" and often "come in large numbers" in the capital from other cities. In terms of Conceptual they were and are in a tough debate, rarely splashed on the pages of specialized publications only because the main feature of the behavioral "Bromeliad" - the silence of others, and most detailed conversation about themselves. Orlov, "Nomoy" also in trouble: he is not close and claustrophobic introversion language artists range Ilya Kabakov . Sculptures of eagles - it's always a holiday. If the skeptics (in the classical sense) and pessimists (realists are) arranged solemn processions and built their own Kremlin, Eagles would have their chief designer.

Eagles and similar artists he converge to the same in relation to the imperial aesthetics. The collapse of the Soviet Union for them, on the one hand, given the other - the traces of empire they see and how to work their own thinking, and is based on what values ​​of modern life. sometimes slips into frank nostalgic tone. Sculptor Shekhovtsov , co-author of Orlov on "Remix", keeps his distance and was committed in relation to the legacy of Soviet academic irreverent (in places) Ironically, the translation of which is in the form of plastic is the main task of the newly formed artistic duo. Word of this got out political lexicon itself, but for good reason: co-creation and Shekhovtsova Orlov is a bit like the famous movie, where the current president (the future prime minister?) And the current Prime Minister (later President?) Play badminton. Only Orloff with Shekhovtsov obvious who the main (and in this absolute success of the project, which could serve as a benefit of one of the participants).

< div class = "imgcenter"> Sergey Shekhovtsov Remix (with Boris Orlov), object 3 Source: xlgallery.artinfo.ru

Sergey Shekhovtsov Remix (with Boris Orlov), object 4 Source: xlgallery.artinfo.ru

project started with a deep conviction Shekhovtsova that the senior colleague's favorite form of 'totem' still relevant today. "Totem" Orlov - this is a classic bust with disproportionately developed chest, serving as a repository of distinctions, awards and symbolic forms (for example, the bust in its colloquial sense). In essence, this visualization power of late socialism, when the most important chief, General Secretary of the CPSU Leonid Brezhnev, different from his teammates do not mind and a talent manager, and the number of medals and decorations. This totem usually have underdeveloped, cartoon head - in that case, if it does not belong to the Roman emperor Octavian Augustus. Since it began, and Empire in the form and style design, which we are accustomed to. In modern "totems" awards can not be. This is either the effective management of state structures in suits with Regent Street, or sports fans, or inanimate objects, such as ATMs - the specific instruments of power of money, disguised new version of the lurid Uvarov triad "autocracy - Orthodoxy - national character" with the amendment to the Soviet belief that stagnation - the success. Using as a totem to the ATM, Orlov and Shekhovtsov play in an international game, now two in two, with the duo Allora and Kazadilya who crossed their cash machine with a church organ on display at the American Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2011. The meaning of our players and overseas commands one: watch what you worship (look at their idols. - AI .), The reader, and you'll feel at ease.

Valentin Dyakonov

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