Елена Прилашкевич / Искусство ТВ
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Актуальное искусство шагает в массы
Роман Бурый / Журнал “Шум”
Не ютиться богемным кругом в окружении экзотических фотографий, но призвать народ и просветить его – вот новая стратегия частных галерей в Петербурге. Слишком классический город с финтифлюшками должен стать современным пространством для актуального искусства, заявляют в новой Ассоциации Галерей.
TV clip about Frants gallery in New York (on Russian)
Пирожки в галерее Анны Франц, шампанское на квартирнике Натальи Лях
В этот раз показывали новые работы питерского художника Виталия Пушницкого, объединенные общей темой — ожоги на бумаге. Прожженные листы напоминают графические рисунки, выполненные в 3D: там, где на листе отпечатался ожог, бумага становится объемной, словно набухает, и в ней можно разглядеть окно, а порой и дверь неизвестно куда.
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«Kommersant» («Merchant») newspaper №149(3966), 22.08.2008
(Russian text below)
Fallen in love with tire casings, artist Vladimir Kozin inspiredly sculptures orders and medals from this material.
Contemporary art exhibition
In St. Petersburg gallery of Anna Frants opened an exhibition by Vladimir Kozin – «Rubbers», suprematic compositions from tire casings. Story by Anna Matveeva.
Tire casings are fashionable in this season. Black rubber with touchingly sticking out nipples was discovered by several artists in the same time. Peter Belyi showed a stone garden not long time ago – a rubber stone garden. Vladimir Kozin translated rubber into most famous symbols of Russian art and Russian life. He prepared this rubber set for more than a year, being fallen in love with vulcanized caoutchouc from the first sight.
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Ъ-Газета – Резина все стерпит
Владимир Козин нашел художественное применение автомобильным шинам.
Влюбленный в автомобильные покрышки художник Владимир Козин упоённо лепит из них ордена и медали
Фото: Никита Инфантьев / Коммерсантъ
В петербургской галерее Анны Франц открылась выставка Владимира Козина “Резинки” — супрематические композиции из автомобильных покрышек. Рассказывает АННА Ъ-МАТВЕЕВА.
Vladimir Kozin – “RUBBERS”
Vladimir Kozin
at Frants Gallery Space (SPb)
“RUBBERS”
rubber art objects
at Frants Gallery Space (St.Petersburg )
Opening: Tuesday, August 19 – 2008
Text from “Kommersant” on English and Russian.
It seems like galoshes were called product в”number one” by the language of soviet official papers. They were dull and unpleasant, according to those days fashion, but now they became amusing and even stylish. In the same time it is a bit creepy thing, if you remember the unforgettable “Krasnyj Treugolnik” (“Red Triangle”) – a place of forced labour, called “chemistry”, where galoshes were produced. Rubber product “number two” was a condom ” an amusing, indecent and even secret, but very unpleasant thing, according to soviet way of thinking. Now it is banal, like a sugar candy. There are also enemas, pipettes, pacifiers, gas masks, police batons ” tools of salvation and suffering.
In short – rubber is not an ordinary material.
TRADE SECRETS
Natalia Krivinskaya, art consultant, New York:
// Some Thoughts on the Scandal That Has Rocked the Russian Art Market
Russia has more than once made its own contribution to the centuries-long tradition of art forgery. The scandal that recently erupted has, however, seriously shaken the Russian art market, still in its formative stages and thus already unstable. In a wonderful article published in the January 2006 issue of Art News , “The Scandal Sweeping Russia’s Art Market,” Konstantin Akinsha summed up the rumors that had long been circulating. Worthy of the genius of 1920s Soviet satirists Ilf and Petrov, the essence of the con was simple. Hundreds of paintings by minor European artists were acquired at western auctions. These works were slightly touched up in order to give them a Russian flavor, and they were adorned with the forged signatures of well-known Russian artists, artists whose works garner high estimates on the world art market. They were then resold for sums of money many times in excess of the price of the originals.