🗓️June 27 – July 5, 2014
FRANTS GALLERY SPACE
📍23-29 Rubinshteina St., Saint-Petersburg, Russia
📞 764 83 37
“Manifesta 10″ parallel program
“Frants Gallery Space” is taking part in the “Manifesta 10″ parallel program in St.Petersburg, Russia. The group exhibition “THE OTHER HOME” presents mid-carrier Peterburg artists and follow the tradition of legendary apartment shows of Soviet time. Curators are questioning about correlation of public and private, inner and outward, practical and idle, trivial and odd.
Artists: Petr Belyi, Ludmila Belova, Elena Gubanova and Ivan Govorkov, Alexandra Dementieva, Vika Ilyushkina, Marina Koldobskaya, Vitaly Pushnitsky, Anna Frants, Petr Shvetsov, Alexander Shishkin-Hokusai, Marina Alexeeva, Katya Bochavar, Alexey Grachev, Alexander Dashevsky, Leta & Vladislav Dobrovolsky, Sergey Komarov, Vladimir Kozin, Alexander Terebenin
Curators: Marina Koldobskaya, Anna Frants
THE OTHER HOME
Opening 27th June 2014
6:00 – 10:00 PM
Frants Gallery Space
Rubinshteina 23 apt 39
St Petersburg, Russia (Google map)
The Other Home
Home sweet home, parents’ house, my castle and the walls that help.
A modern person changes 5 to 10 residences during the lifetime, usually using a few at a time, often in different countries and climate zones.
A countless number of renovations utterly wipe away traces of history, remote or recent, one’s own and somebody else’s.
The residence is a mirror of the inhabitant’s soul, but successful people invite the architect-designer-decorator to arrange the interior for them. In vogue, there could be exotics or high-tech, historicism or vintage – all this is made to order or purchased in special places.
Home sweet home is a bunch of appliances that chop-whip-fry-steam-warm up-cool down. They are designed in Europe, made in Asia, and, with their help, we prepare the food that has been familiar since childhood. But also the exotics, fusion or dishes of the molecular gastronomy.
The bedroom is still sacrosanct. It is believed that people love, conceive, give birth and die in their own bed. This is a literary cliche. They love and conceive in all sorts of places – best case scenario: on a romantic trip purchased in a travel agency. They give birth at a hospital. They die… well, let’s leave it at that.
The walls look like a castle less and less. They look like a screen. In order for them to help, it is recommended to switch the channel. But, as a rule, it does not help.
A successful person lives in the coordinates: taxi-airport-hotel. They are all different, and they are all somebody else’s. The most enviable “one’s own” is a yacht or a private plane. It seems, the land has no hold anymore.
A really successful person could buy a castle in Europe. Or an island in the Pacific Ocean. History or lack thereof.
Between these poles of success, there are tens of thousands square miles of bedroom communities.
Something needs to be done about that.
Marina Koldobskaya
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