The exhibition, inspired by the eschatological expectations of the world's population in 2012

Gallery "Ark", February 17 - March 18, 2012
st. Nemchinov, 12

BORIS GOLOPOLOSOV man beating his head against the wall. 1937 Source: kovcheg-art.ru

With the arrival of 2012 in the minds of the society has increased markedly theme of the coming end of the world, according to legend, once promised by the Maya civilization during this period.

Expectations of the termination of life of all mankind, the existence of the planet Earth and even the universe is easily picked up by the media and the rumor banal. In fact, the recent anomalous summer heat, the eruption of an Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokull, and in the past year - the March earthquake off the Pacific coast of Japan, the destruction of a nuclear power plant "Fukushima-1", and other natural disasters, not to mention the numerous internecine wars, ethnic conflicts and fights just for movie theaters, summer lightning can be perceived impending disaster.

On the other hand, researchers from the National University of Mexico has already suggested that the Maya did not predict world collapse is coming in 2012: on this date, they just ended calendar for up to five thousand one hundred twenty-five years.

Charsky EUGENE Lenin in prison. 1968 Source: artinfo.com

Boris Yefimov crisis. In 1932 Source: artinfo.com

not drawn into the debate about the prospects of humanity, and not relying so quickly and easily put an end to the numerous cases have been commenced, the curators Moscow gallery "Ark" decided, however, to analyze exactly how, if not the End of the World, the dramatic variety of circumstances - fires, floods, volcanic eruptions, suicide, etc. - are reflected in the fine art of the twentieth and the beginning of the XXI century. The result of what has become, and this exhibition continues the long-term cycle kovchegovskih exhibitions devoted to "roundabout" - nontrunk, but ever-present themes of the national artistic culture.

in the preparation of the exhibition was attended by National Museum of B. . Mayakovsky Museum Society "Memorial", Art Gallery of Krasnoarmeysk, "Galeev gallery," Gallery "Elysium», NB Gallery, private collectors and contemporary authors.

Source: artinfo.ru