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The Night of Contemporary Art in Russia

On June 29 Frants Gallery Space will take part of the Night of Contemporary Art – a large-scale program of contemporary Russian art and exhibition projects.

 

 

 

 

INFO: The Association of Contemporary Art Institutions (ACAI) announces the Night of Contemporary Art that will take place on 29 June in St Petersburg, Russia. To promote contemporary art, all the ACAI venues will be opening their exhibitions on that night. The program will be started with the opening of the public art project Luzhaika in the New Holand island, which will include the works of seven famous Russian contemporary artists.

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SIMPLE RULES

Youth Center at the State Hermitage Museum,
Charitable Foundation St Petersburg Arts Project (NY),
Kolodzei Art Foundation (NY)
With the support of CYLAND Media Art Lab
Within the scope of the project:
“Cutting-Edge Art of St. Petersburg. A Retrospective”.

SIMPLE RULES
From private collections of St. Petersburg art collectors
Curator: Leonid Frants
January 23-27, 2013

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Artists: Nikolai Akimov, Aleksandr Arefiev, Aleksandr Baturin, Viktor Burtas, Richard Vasmi, Solomon Gershov, Yevgenia Gorokhova, Valentin Gromov, Rodion Gudzenko, Nikolai Zhukov, Anatoly Zaslavsky, Iosif Zisman, Igor Ivanov, Anatoly Kaplan, Aleksandr Kozhin, Pavel Kondratiev, Boris Koshelokhov, Ludmila Kutsenko, Valentin Levitin, Yevgeny Mikhnov-Voitenko, Gerta Nemenova, Leon Nissenbaum, Valentina Povarova, Valeriy Rabchinsky, Solomon Rossin, Ivan Sotnikov, Vladimir Sterligov, Gennady Ustugov, Vladimir Shagin, Sholom Shvarts, Boris Ender, Vladimir Yashke.

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“DRAWINGS TO DOVLATOV”

ST. PETERSBURG ARTS PROJECT (NY)
Invites you to attend
the opening reception for
“DRAWINGS TO DOVLATOV”
By: ALEXANDER FLORENSKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Friday, April 20th 6:30PM-10:00PM
81 Wooster St. 4th Floor. New York, NY
rsvp@frantsgallery.com
Featuring readings by and about Dovlatov by writers:
Lara Vapnyar and Barry Yourgrau.
–The readings will begin at 8:00pm–

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ROMAN DREAMS by Elena Gubanova and Ivan Govorkov

St. Petersburg Arts Project (NY)
cordially invites you
to attend the opening reception
for the exhibition of works by
Elena Gubanova and Ivan Govorkov

ROMAN DREAMS

January 27th, 2012
6:00 -10:00 PM
FRANTS GALLERY SPACE (NY)
81 Wooster Street, 4th Floor

[По-русски см. ниже] This exhibition of the St. Petersburg artists is a result of their three-month stay as fellows of Joseph Brodsky Memorial Fund at the American Academy in Rome in 2010.

The luxurious abundance of marble and flying figures in Roman churches and cathedrals occasioned Ivan Govorkov to create a series of drawings Marble. “I am imbued with the museum figurative classics at the subconscious level. And this subconscious, devoid of goals or ideas, is revealed in my drawings”. The artist draws spontaneously and aimlessly, allowing his hand to glide over the paper on its own as if revealing the invisible. Several works by Ivan Govorkov from a different graphics series Arachne are, on the contrary, full of subjects from the mythology. The artist, who has spent so much of his life on the classic art, seems to reflect ironically on “excessiveness” of the baroque style.

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