Tonight in the Tretyakov Gallery and Sculpture Park in the Parallel Program III Moscow International Biennale for Young Art opens an exhibition of Arseniy Zhilyaeva

TG, July 13 - September 9, 2012
Moscow, Krimsky Val, 10, Hall 38

Arseny Zhilyaev (b. 1984) - the leading artists of the 2000s, actively involved in public life, one of the most talked-about figures of contemporary art in recent years. The project continues the series Zhilyaeva A. Tretyakov Gallery, "The Artist and his museum," dedicated to finding new ways of existing works in the museum walls, and forms of their exposure. Each exhibition in this series is intended to be a "mini-museum" one artist in the "big museum».

Zhilyaeva A. Works ("Radio October", the project Fabrika, 2011; "rational egoism" , Regina Gallery, 2010, "Market" Work "," 2011) say about the relationship of art and contemporary society, beauty and morality. In search of what could be opposed to art, divorced from life, A. Zhilyaev refers to the period of the revolutionary vanguard, its forgotten ideas. His installations are addressed to the viewer's imagination and his ability to empathize with the event and also to analyze it.

«Museum of proletarian culture ..." in some sense a repetition of the exhibition, GA Fedorov-Davydov, "Experimental complex Marxist Exposition "in 1931 in the walls of the Tretyakov Gallery, the idea for its time, which was innovative - to show the art of the oppressed sections of society and to demonstrate the relationship of works of art with the conditions in which they were created. Curatorial projects by Jean Hubert Martin, beginning with "Magicians of the earth", pursued a similar goal, but for art of the Third World.

Special Project A. Zhilyaeva is part documentary, part fictional history of art created by workers from the factory and the factory workers of the 1960s to freelance creatives today. Using examples of folk art in essence - the temple of the matches, fanerki with women's pictures cut out of colored magazines - the author develops a model of the museum. The installation also includes monuments to "pioneers" of show business nineties of the last century, examples of adolescent creativity zero network and stand on the motion "Okkupayabay" and the People's Assembly, as the latest example of a mass revolutionary creativity.

Gilles A. Museum of proletarian culture industrialization of bohemia. 2011 installation. Fragment. 47 x 20. Gallery «Regina» Source: Press Release TG

Gilles A. Museum of proletarian culture industrialization of bohemia. 2011 installation. Fragment. 47 x 20. Gallery «Regina» Source: Press Release TG

Gilles A. Museum of proletarian culture industrialization of bohemia. 2011 installation. Fragment. 42 x 21. Gallery «Regina» Source: Press Release TG

Gilles A. Museum of proletarian culture industrialization of bohemia. " 2011 installation. Fragment. 33 x 23. Gallery «Regina» Source: Press Release TG

The project will Showing products 1920-30's production on the subject from the Tretyakov Gallery - "Country Teacher» Eugene A. E. A. Katzman (1925), "Training of Teachers» E. M. Cheptsov (1925), "In memory of Vladimir Lenin. Still life » Fiodor F. S. Bogorodsky (1932) and others.

Katsman EA Rural teacher. 1925 Oil on canvas. 120 x 68. TG Source: Press Release TG

Bogorodsky FS In memory of Vladimir Lenin Still Life. 1932 Oil on canvas. 79,5 x 92,5. TG Source: Press Release TG

Cheptsov EM Retraining of teachers. 1925 Oil on canvas. 69 x 90. TG Source: Press Release TG

Installation A. Zhilyaeva mimics a museum which exhibits refer to the artistic life of the workers' clubs, sections of creativity in the workplace, as well as show the development and changes in working relationships, leaving open the question of the concept of work in contemporary art. Making the exhibition "The Museum of proletarian culture ..." typical of Eastern European exhibitions of the 1970s, and it helps to more fully express the main idea of ​​the exposition.

Curator - Cyril Fireflies involving Helena Voronovich.

Source : TG Press Release