Andrew Grositsky: "Eighty. Archaeology of the gaze"
Tonight at the Museum of Moscow opens the exhibition Grositskogo Andrew — one of the classics of modern Russian art
Tonight at the Museum of Moscow opens an exhibition of one of the classics of modern Russian art, Andrew Grositskogo, "Eighty. Archaeology of sight". The work of the artist, whose work is indissolubly linked with Moscow, on display along with items from the collection of Moscow Museum, collected by the artist as well as items from his own collection — the heroes of his proizvedenii@
the Style and position Grositsky formed in the 1960-ies in a circle of artists of the "other art", Moscow underground — Ilya Kabakov, Erik Bulatov, Ivan Chuikov, Boris Turetsky, Yuri Zlotnikov@ Grositsky rightly called "the poet of things" in contemporary art. This year for Grositsky — the anniversary in November 2014 the year he turned 80 years. A retrospective exhibition of an artist who continues to work, is eighty works from different periods of his work, from the late 1950s until 2015 goda@ the name of the exhibition — "Archaeology of the gaze", borrowed from the texts of Michel Foucault, focuses on the archaeological and anthropological side of art Grositsky. The study of the aura of the city and time through the appearance of things. The exhibition of paintings presented together with real things they depict, and which the artist found in a variety of circumstances, collected and used as models, transforming sometimes beyond recognition, changing the scale, color, enhancing the texture. The exhibition shows not pure art, but the dialogue of visual motifs and original items (found objects), each of which is associated with the history and life of a particular place and the entire city. Andrew Grositsky and their "models" appear also surrounded by other objects chosen by the artist from the collection of Moscow Museum, which houses the largest collection of objects of city life. Between the real and the depicted things occurs full dialogue — no wonder about Grositsky say about how the artist directs the viewer's eye "from Genesis to Genesis". the works of Andrew Grositskogo for the exhibition from private collections (including private museums) and the collection of the author. Co-organizer of the exhibition is the gallery pop/off/art, which for many years worked with the artist and previously acted as the organizer of his retrospective at the State Tretyakov gallery (2007). By the end of the exhibition it is anticipated the publication of a catalogue with texts by art historians and philosophers, as well as hudojnika@ Источник: mosmuseum.ru
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