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Ludmila Belova Born in 1960 in Kamchatka. Graduated from Abramtsev Art and Design College. Creates objects installations, video. Lives and works in St Petersburg.
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Three short films displayed simultaneously on three screens place viewers in the situations, where he and his view become captives of the circumstances. The first screen displays the field of vision of a baby riding in a carriage, the second -that of a driver in a traffic jam, the third that of a patient in a wheelchair. The three visions symbolizing birth, life and death bring viewers directly to the question how he builds his own relations with the world, how he spends his own life.
Forced Foreshortening. Video installation on three screens. 1999, second version 2004. 3 parts 5 min. each  |
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Vladimir Bystrov Born in Leningrad in 1969. In 1990 entered Leningrad Institute of Theater, Music and Cinema. Since 1997 teaches at Interstudio performance school in Tzarskoie-Selo. Former member of thee Escape group. Creates video. Lives and works in St. Petersburg.
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In this affecting film an elderly woman takes picture of herself by a video camera and gives a commentary "My nose looks like my Mother's and my eyes like my Father's". Only from her last words we learn that the speech and the portrait are destined to her son to help him to keep the memory of his mother forever.
22.07.2002. Video. 2002. 5min. 56sec.  |
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Jury Vasiliev Born in 1950 in Kinghisepp, Leningrad region. In 1974 graduated from Serov Leningrad Art College. Member of the Russian Union of Artists, prize-winner of the regional Lenin's Komsomol Prize in literature, art, journalism and architecture, awarded by the prize For Creative Progress in the Development of the Soviet art. Creates graphics, performances, objects and video. Since 1984 lives in Kaliningrad.
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This film is an authentic recording of deaf people's pray. Deaf-mute people pray with their hands in pantomime. Their vocabulary is smaller and more standard than the ordinary one, and the translation of their pray, simplifying canonic text, makes known words sound in a new way and viewers look closely at their meaning. Video projection system is mounted on the selling and the image is projected on the floor right at the viewers' feet. To step on it? To step over? To walk round? To stand and watch? Any possible action reveals your attitude to the subject and gives you a radical choice. Our Father. Video installation, 2004  |
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Alexei Garev Born in Leningrad in 1968. In 1998 graduated from Mukhina Higher School of Arts and Crafts, department of monumental decorative painting. Interested in modern media. Lives and works in St. Petersburg.
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Bright and stylish photo panels by Garev are basing on real photos taken from newspapers. The artist enlarges them to the size when dot matrix becomes visible and completes with hand-made inscriptions. His works are biting criticism of mass-media and information from newspapers and TV, which replaces actual reality.
From Subtitles. B/w photo, acrylic paint, 90x180cm. 2004/em> |
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Tatiana Goloviznina Born in 1974. Graduated from Yekaterinburg Art College and the Repin State Academic Institute of Painting sculpture and architecture in St. Petersburg, studied media art in Pro Arte Institute in St. Petersburg. Creates media art and social projects.
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Children always dream to fly like birds. Tatiana Goloviznina studied this problem in a sociological way, she interrogated by special questionnaires many people in different countries on how and when they fly: dreaming, sleeping and in the reality. Using this information, the artist made video and photo collages, literally launching her respondents into flight.
Flying. Case study. 2003-2004  |
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Philip Dontsov Born in Leningrad in 1972. Graduated from Mukhina Higher School of Arts and Crafts. Creates paintings, sculptures, objects, installations and media art. Lives and works in St. Petersburg.
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Human bodies either spying on us or begging to release them can be seen through the surfaces of milk-white plastic cubes. Delicate reticence of these objects is characteristic for Dontsov's creative manner.
Voyeurs. Polyester lightboxes,100x100x10 cm each.  |
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Group ZerGut (Stanislav Cherva, Evgeny Goltsov, Vladimir Seleznev, Ivan Snigirev) The group was founded in autumn 2001 by young artists, graduates of the department of art and graphics of Nizhniy Tagil Pedagogical Institute. The group organizes performances, city actions films video. Live and work in Nizhniy Tagil.
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All-seeing eye works very simple. The camera is filming common people an ordinary communicating courtyard. Subtitles record daily life of the neighbors. "Old woman Nina Semienovna went to buy milk for her cat Murka, the only consolation in her life. Teenager Sergei Klestov is waiting for his friend Oleg Balkin, etc. This camera is an all-seeing god's eye and the whole cinema is a specimen of new humanism in art, basing on the attention and sympathy for ordinary life of common people.
All-Seeing Eye. Video, 9min. 43 sec., 2003 |
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Nadezhda Zubareva Born in Tyumen. Graduated from Tyumen Art College and Mukhina Higher School of Arts and Crafts. Creates sculptures. Lives and works in St. Petersburg.
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In a glass box there is a human embryo made with scarlet wire. The artists shows the viewers the rise of a new human being, which is usually hidden under human flesh:. Nadezhda Zubareva's visiting card, wire lace tatted by hand, makes emphasis on the delicacy of human life.
Human Size. Steel wire, 50x50x50 cm. 2004 |
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Olga Yegorova (Tsaplia) Born in Khabarovsk in 1968. In 1993 graduated from the department of history and theory of art of the Repin State Academic Institute of Painting sculpture and architecture. Creates performances, objects, installations, video and audio. Since 1995 works with Factory of found clothes group, since 2004 with What is to be done? group. Lives in St. Petersburg
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The artist parodies TV soap operas. On four screens she recites typical soap opera monologs: lover's, villain's, amorous Cinderella's… The meaning of the video installation is simple and evident: a lover and a villain, a young loving girl and an elderly reasoner, they all are different sides of the same soul living in each of us.
Blue Purl Video installation on four monitors. 2005
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Escape program (Valery Ayzenberg, Anton Litvin, Bogdan Mamonov, Liza Morozova). The program was formed in 1999 by the initiative of Valery Ayzenberg. Its members create non-spectacular projects, performances, objects and installations. Prize-winners of Black Square, the 1st national award in the field of contemporary art. Live and work in Moscow.
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A viewer enters in a dark box, thrusts his head in a hole in low selling and realizes that his head lies on a plate in the middle of a table, while four members of the Escape group are sitting around with knives and forks. The irony resides in the fact that usually art is an object of visual, emotional and mental consuming, but in this performance the viewers become artists' food themselves. Dizziness originally states that the viewer's position is neither passive nor safe.
Dizziness,video installation, 2004
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Group Kuda Begut Sobaki (Vlad Bulatov, Natalia Grekhova, Olga Inozemtseva, Alexey Korzukhin). Creative group of young artists and designers working with performance. Founded in 1999. Its members live and work in Yekaterinburg.
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In all languages look at oneself means to think of one's own behavior, to approach to self-understanding. Anti-Virtual Helmet of Yekaterinburg artists looks as a hi-tech computer gadget. However, there are just mirrors inside, and the helmet, which can be tried on by the viewers, gives them a chance to look at themselves and to return from a virtual world of flashing images and events to the reality.
Anti-Virtual Helmet. Interactive installation (5 interactive helmets, podium,
audio track), 2004
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Natalia Pershina-Yakimanskaya (Gluklia) Born in Leningrad in 1968. In 1995 formed Factory of Found Clothes, a creative duet with Olga Egorova (Tsaplia), Works with performance, video, objects and installations. Lives and works in St. Petersburg.
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Gliuklia's installation guides viewers through a dark labyrinth, inhabited with such unusual interlocutors as dresses. At the viewer's approach they start talking to him, advising and telling stories. For many years Gliuklia has been working over the idea of clothes as a mystic border of the body and the outer world. In this work talking dresses are magic personifications of their owner's soul. They come to your help when you are at a deadlock, instruct and support in hard times. They incarnate a hidden and mystic hypostasis of the ego. This hidden second ego exists in each of us, but we can hear its voice only with the help of mysterious Numens, or … Gliuklia, the artist.
). Talking Dresses. Fragment of installation. 2004  |
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Group PROVMYZA (Galina Myznikova, Sergey Provorov) Galina Myznikova and Sergey Provorov is a creative duet of Nizhniy Novgorod video artists and producers of experimental cinema. Since 1999 they yearly participate in international festivals of short and digital cinema.
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Young people crawling and sliding on an arc-shape screen in the authors' opinion should remind viewers of their nightmares, clambering up and sliding down sheer slopes in their dreams and of the absurd Sisyphean toil. The contemporary art is such potentially useful labour, whose results are useless in the frame of the present society, and the work itself is infinite. As A. Camus said "The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart" (with hope).
Surfing. Video installation, 2004  |
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Vitaly Pushnitsky Born in Leningrad in 1967. In 1994 graduated from the department of graphics of the Repin State Academic Institute of Painting sculpture and architecture. Since 1994 member of the Union of Artists. Creates paintings, graphics video objects, collages and installations. Lives and works in St. Petersburg.
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Light series consists of ten images, featuring people in key moments of their lives (baby in a cradle, young girl, shot rebel). The images are placed in metal cages and lit by lamps, attached to the canvases or even piercing through them. This is a powerful expression of the light of truth, running through human life and enabling humans to be people.
From Light. Light I. Oil on canvas, steel wire, fluorescent lamp, 120x80x10 cm. 2001.  |
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Kerim Ragimov РBorn in Leningrad in 1970. In 1989 graduated from The Rerich Art School in Leningrad. Photorealist painter. Lives in St. Petersburg.
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This picturesque series gave its name to the entire exhibition. Ragimov's Human Project is painted basing on the illustrations from modern reviews. Together they form an impressive portrait of contemporary humanity, seen by itself by means of photo correspondents.
From Human Project. Portrait #21. Oil on canvas, 206,5x282cm. 2004  |
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Oleg Hvostov Born in Leningrad in 1972. Studied at access courses of the Academy of Art (Department of architecture). Typical obsessed self-taught artist. Since 1998 is an honorary member of the New Imbeciles brotherhood.
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This talented artist draws his self-portraits daily, and at the moment their number exceeds five thousands. We exhibit only a small part of them, but it is enough to get amazed with the artist's obsession to look at himself, to portray and to show his image to the world and to every viewer.
Self-Portraits. Gouache on cardboard, 30x30 cm each. 1997-2004  |