Art Studio "Dominant" features works by the most relevant and popular artists of today St. Petersburg

AZ Gallery, 4-14 July 2013
Moscow, Starokonyushenny Lane, 39

Tomorrow, July 4, 2013, at 19.00 in the "Gallery A3" will vernissage of the exhibition "Wind from the Neva».

BORIS Koshelokhov No title. 2011 Oil on canvas. 50 x 45 Source: art-studio "Dominant»

Vyacheslav Mikhailov No title. 1996 Mixed media on canvas. 80 x 100 Source: art-studio "Dominant»

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Once again guest "Gallery A3" - art studio "Dominant", bringing together leading collectors of Moscow.

Participants art studio on a regular basis reveal their private collections metropolitan public. And every time the exposition is devoted to a particular topic.

This time the "Dominant" offers viewers of the most urgent and popular artists of today St. Petersburg - without exaggeration, color and pride of modern St. Petersburg art. For the first time in recent history in Moscow exhibit such an ambitious outreach project names. An extensive exhibition will appreciate the creativity of the best of the best - Sergey Bakin, Leonid Borisov , Vadim Voinov , Felix Volosenkov, Sinstein , Igor Ivanov , Marina Kaverzina, Oleg Kotelnikov , Boris Koshelohova, Vyacheslav Vyacheslav Mikhailov , Yuri Nikiforov, Ivan Olasyuka, Michael Pavlenin, Andrew Prolettskogo, Alexandra Padabed, Ivan Sotnikov , Gennady Ustyugova , Shagina , Igor Shirshkova, Vladimir Yashke and other stars of the avant-garde Neva.

All authors integrates the source - the informal (or non-conformist) Art of Leningrad late 50's - early 60-ies of the last century. It is from the coat (later formed the legendary "gazanevschinu"), by and large, and they all came out - as Muscovites of the "Bulldozer" and Little Georgia.

Despite the fact that the modern avant-garde - the phenomenon of world-international, all-human (the world has long ago turned into a single art space the size of a globe), all the same, each region has made in building a global monster its own unique contribution.

IGOR IVANOV A branch of apple. 2004 Oil on canvas. 71 x 116 Source: art-studio "Dominant»

Sergey Bakin Laurus. 2011 Oil on canvas. 60 x 80 Source: art-studio "Dominant»

their traditions, principles and schools of thought evolved in the city on the Neva. What, of course, immensely contributed to the huge concentration of cultural and historical heritage of the European level that has accumulated since the founding of St. Petersburg and served as a breeding ground and a breeding ground for the emergence of a highly educated, erudite, and most importantly - fine understanding and appreciating perfect intelligence. And quite large.

MICHAEL Pavlenin Fiddler. 1978
Oil on fiberboard. 80 x 65
Source: art-studio "Dominant»


IGOR SHIRSHKOV Fly. 2011
Oil on canvas. 60 x 90
Source: art-studio "Dominant»

It is clear that the years of Stalin's dictatorship inflicted intellectual atmosphere of the northern capital of irreparable damage. With the onset of the Khrushchev thaw much had to start from the beginning - but not from scratch. It's no secret that going underground, living in the underground - the perfect way to save, preserve and even develop spiritual heritage.

And then there is the question of specificity, originality of content submitted for sunlight flasks, test tubes and retorts. What, for example, the Leningrad underground middle of the last century was different from the Moscow - considering the fact that the whole country has gone through the same meat grinder of repression? Yes, and tactics of the struggle for liberation during the final adjustment is practically no different. And act synchronously. However, the taste and color of Petrograd and Moscow - as Novgorod and Pskov, as Samarkand and Bukhara, as Khludnevo Filimonovo and (who knows). Not in the sense that every artist - is unique, and that the unity of all opposites are bound to have that so passionately adore look for intellectuals.

seems exhibition "Wind from the Neva" provides an excellent opportunity for independent conclusions. Because at the Moscow cultural studies (whether professional or amateur) there are different ways to dive into the atmosphere of St. Pete. You can, for example, to travel to the workshops of local artists, bypassing one after the other and each leaving a certain number of glass devastated. If you're lucky, it's good to get to any large-scale group vernissage on Pushkin, 10. But it is quite another thing when the "all at once" brought to Petrograd and Moscow show.

Only in this case, the Moscow audience gets complete freedom of perception, and most importantly - estimates. You must agree that a guest critic still connected set of conventions. Not every owner so easily vyskazhesh what you think of him. Not to mention the fact that the really big phenomenon can only be seen in the distance. No wonder the school of avant-garde works of the past rise in price by leaps and bounds. From our beautiful dusk far looks much more refined.

However how a bouquet of smells and sensations filled with wind from the Neva? And if you compare it with the air of the Moscow River? Or search for excellence - an empty and meaningless waste of time? It turns out that we have become dull the sense of smell? Or all the winds of the world for a long time smell the same?

seems that day is not far off when there will be substantial monograph, exploring the specifics of the St. Petersburg avant-garde. Until recently it was considered to be a watershed, "a romantic beginning," which is opposed to the "Petersburg rationalism." Like, in Moscow, more warmth, "intimacy", and in St. Petersburg - common sense and intelligence.

Today, of course, all the cards have long confused - so let everyone decide for himself. All the more so in the court of the very freedom of creativity and opinions, which with equal zeal approaching, as they could, and Muscovites, and Leningrad.

Igor Dudinskiy

Source : press-release "Wind from the Neva»