🗓️August 6 – September 21, 2014
GROUND SOLYANKA GALLERY
📍1/2 ,Solyanka Ul., Moscow 109028 Russia
◆Painting and Video in Relations◆
The exhibition explores the relationship between video and television. In 1984, the classic socialist realist artist Erik Bulatov painted a Soviet man in front of a television. Video, as is well known, emerged as a strong opposition to television broadcasting, which claimed to truly reflect reality but was in fact mediated by various ideological conventions.
At first glance, video shares much in common with cinema and television. However, video often approaches the boundaries of painting and engages in a productive dialogue with it. In this case, tradition takes center stage: a director carries within them the cinematic tradition and makes films, while an artist carries the tradition of painting and brings a strong plastic (visual) element to video recording.
Every new form of art transforms both the overall understanding of art and its individual genres and movements.
The main focus of the exhibition is on “animated paintings”: the monumental video panorama by artist Cristina Lucas, who brought Eugène Delacroix’s painting Liberty Leading the People to life, and the video projection by Aidan Salakhova and Vitaly Pushnitsky onto a painted canvas.
Olga Chernysheva placed side by side her painting Festive Dream and its video version. Similarly, Elena Kovylina juxtaposed a “painted frame” with documentation of her performance Peace, dedicated to the friendship between the Russian and Ukrainian peoples.
Tatyana Podmarkova “spied” on herself, filming herself in the studio, thus referencing the early video experiments of one of the classics of video art — Bruce Nauman.
The video sculpture with a projection by Anna Frants, a nominee for the Sergey Kuryokhin Prize, mesmerizes viewers with a “living” Greek vase.