Bonbons toxiques
2025
Is Art Child’s Play? by Jean-Hubert Martin – read
The return of cult symbols by Andrey Erofeev – read
The project is a "total installation", i.e. a single statement deployed in space and consisting of a suite of rooms that must be perceived sequentially as they are passed.
The fundamental difference from a conventional total installation is that this statement is created from various autonomous works created in the 2000s and 2010s. Thus, the exhibition can be viewed as a small retrospective of the last 20 years.
“Hardware”, 2016
5 parts 45 х 25 cm, bronze, brass
In the first space, the viewer is greeted by five podiums with five artifacts located on them, which are simplified forms of the turrets of some new-generation European tanks. These towers refer to the constructivist aesthetics of geometric forms.
“Avant-garde stationary",
Folders, 2015, 10 parts
Traces, 2015, 4 parts
In this space, it is necessary to erect a false wall with a passage in the middle. On the wall are hanging office folders made of leatherette of irregular shape. The shape of these folders is also an unfolding of the turrets of tanks from World War II. Immediately after the passage, a small false wall is erected, a stele equal in size to the passage itself, on which one of the folders is also located.
After the false wall, four podiums with internal lighting are placed, on which 4 sheets with watermarks of tank tracks are exhibited. The watermarks can only be seen by lighting them from the inside.
The last two podiums with watermarks are part of the third part of the exhibition, where the stairs are.
“YOU DID THIS? NO, YOU DID IT!”
Installation. 2014, metal, welding, bronze
This third hall should be painted blood red. The main artifacts of this hall are a series of heads of the most famous revolutionaries of three periods of history: 1. Karl Marx, F. Engels. M. Bakunin; 2. V. Lenin, L. Trotsky, I. Stalin; 3. Mao Zedong, Che Guevara, Ho Chi Minh. These heads are partly on the steps leading to the next hall, partly are located on black stakes. As in the Middle Ages, the severed heads of criminals were exhibited. The heads themselves are made of bronze, but covered with a black patina.
“Bread” series 8 parts, wood, mixed media
in production especially for your exhibition
In the last final hall, a false wall is also erected on which an "iconostasis" of newly made Breads is exhibited. Series of works repeating the texture of bread and are equipped on the inside with so-called "dowels" specific to the icon, special wooden inserts that will not allow the wood to bend from dampness.
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