Gallery 21
March 10 — April 15, 2016
CSI WINERY, Moscow, 4-й Syromyatnicheskiy lane 1, page 6

Initially, the project of the artist Sergei Katran "Until the word" not planned as purely an art exhibition, but as mnogogolovy multimedia performance. On opening day the audience was shown some performances from invited dancers, visuals, special author electronic music. But when the sounds subside, and the actors disperse, will only scenery objects. And then it will become clear how they handle the explanation of the General idea — artistic rendering of the word and its deconstruction.

• Willy Melnikov and Sergey Katran, at the opening of "Until the word"
   
• Performance — visualization of words
   

the Most spectacular scenery of the play — ceramic objects. The viewer quickly recognizes them as embodied in the clay of the sound spectrogram. But the fact that it is not the abstract form, and actual spectrogram spoken in different languages, words art, will be available only on the tip. And what language is not there! 60 units (thing, by the way, this art via-польски). Version of ancient Egyptian. The last, probably, in the "conditional reading", because reliable information about the use of vowels in the times of the pharaohs has been preserved. However, to solve similar language tasks to the project drew the correct party @the mdas of the poet and the polyglot Willie Melnikov. He was a co-author of Katran in audioinstallation "Neo-Вавилонский dialogue", as well as a composer under the pseudonym :vtol:. In addition, the opening was shown the video Katran in collaboration with media-поэтом Natalia Fedorova. And finally, some artistic experiments with the word closed linguistic performance by German artist, specialist in Biosystems roses of Recker — splitting of the word into elementary components, akin to deciphering DNA.

• @Mdas visualization of words
   
• @Mdas visualization of words
   

Sergey Katran in the press call the artist-изобретателем working in the field of science-art. Inventor — because his projects often have a specific scientific basis, that is, the artist follows the path of philosophical reflection on real chemical or physical processes. In addition to specificity, the Katran there is still a special trait that someone-то like it and some-то no, — highest quality technical implementation of its objects. If ceramics — will be excellent pottery, and not "Russian poor". If the object-головоломка, it will look like she just rolled out high-tech plant, not collected in a controlled environment. In General this is the case when, leaving the exhibition, most viewers can formulate for themselves what they actually saw. And for a long time to remember the products "the materialization of sensual ideas". Gallery pictures for objects Sergey Katran, presented at the exhibition are in the range of 1 500-3 500 euros.

Vladimir Bogdanov, AI

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