The exhibition in the VI Festival collections of contemporary art is the work of contemporary artists from Belarus - Sergei Zhdanovich, Sergei Shabohina, Dennis Limonov, Joan smoothly, Xenia Sorokina, AR, and Alexis C. Lunev

«House on the Embankment", 9-19 August 2012
Moscow street. Serafimovich, 2, entrance 2, apt. 33, Code 33, floor 6
hours: from 16.00 to 19.00

Today in the VI Festival collections of modern art opens the exhibition« Belarus - Young Contemporary Art ». Exhibition dedicated to young independent artists from Belarus, goes to the House on the Embankment, in the apartment the cultural attache of the Austrian Embassy in Moscow, the Austrian Cultural Forum Director Mr Simon Mraz, who for three years of active work in Russia has managed to grow into a modern deep-creative environment.

in recent years in Belarus, there were many "alternative" young authors, whose work is different from the Western followers of contemporary art and artists from academics - their work is a manifestation of individual artistic expression.

Sergei Zhdanovich works with photography, spatial installations, multimedia. Recent projects focus on the artist's interaction with the surrounding reality, redefining the concepts of graphic and visual, artistic and documentary.

Zhdanovich Sergei From the series« Tabula Rasa ». 2001-2004 Simon Collection Mraz Source: ncca.ru

Zhdanovich Sergei From the series «Tabula Rasa». 2001-2004 Simon Collection Mraz Source: ncca.ru

presented at the exhibition installation Sergei Shabohina " Practice obedience "sums up decades of Belarusian contemporary art. The installation is part of the author's study of phobias and aggression and is emerging from the 2009 collection of images, documents, and ready-made objects.

artist, working under the pseudonym Charles AR can be defined as a typical representative of the art brut ("rough art") - Outsider art, characterized by brutality, the intuitive nature of creativity, escapism, sublimation, and fear. All this is evident in the works of Charles R. His name - the initials of Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo, known serial killer.

Dennis Lemons, also known provocative and controversial actions as a member of the art group "Lime Blossom" in the works, according to the artist, "reveals the illness of the Belarusian society».

The draft Jeanne Smoothly "presence" lay down the principle of self-exploration, study the phenomenon of presence as the existential givens. The concept of presence in philosophy (Dasein in Heidegger) identifies the hidden ability to understand a person being in general. Images of all the religious symbols found in the home of her parents, protection, and are hidden from direct view of the audience.

daughter of a famous Soviet artist Xenia Sorokin will present work, some of which previously exhibited in the Tretyakov Gallery. Reflections of the artist of the Soviet past of the country and its present - hot topic and her colleagues from Belarus.

Installation Alexis Lunev "Declaration" includes a snippet of the project "Cartoon" and one of nine sheet polyptych «Black Market». The formal reason for a polyptych «Black Market» (2009) was the moving story of the relics of the Evangelist Mark from Constantinople to Venice. A kind of refrain in this paper was the phrase "Nichoganyama" ("Nothing"). Spontaneously emerged, it became the key to creativity Alexis Lunev, in fact - the icon that hides a variety of phenomena, discovering that the artist receives the impetus for further work.

Source : Press Release NCCA

In the VI Festival of contemporary art collections are now open:

« Tradition and Folklore naive in contemporary art »;

« Agulis. " Exhibition of works by Gayane Khachaturian .