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Viktor Alimpiev. Thrown banners look like an arable land 1, 2005, acrylic on canvas, 175 x 150
Everybody in Moscow loves Viktor Alimpiev. But no one really understands his work. Its meaning is hidden so carefully that you start to think that it might not be there at all. So I just can’t help being [...]
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Garden by the Sea
Roman Korovin. From the series “Garden by the Sea,” 2005-2007
I remember Latvia in the mid-1990s. Somehow, it was a romantic place. The landscape was picturesque: trenches from World War Two overwrote the pinehills on the Kurland peninsula hiding one-family-house villages from the beachwinds of the Baltic sea. The dissolution of the Soviet Union brought squalor [...]
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Industry Blues
Nikolai Oleinikov. Dialogues in the Club. 4.12 – 16.12. Tipografia (Kitai Gorod).
On December 4th, as Osmolovsky was receiving the Kandinsky Prize, artist Nikolai Oleinikov (who is part of the group Chto delat, as am I) opened a small one-room solo exhibition of recent work at “Tipografia,” a studio semi-squat in the center [...]
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And the prize goes to…(Moscow)
At the opening of the Kandinsky Prize show, Winzavod, Moscow.
Photo: artinfo.ru
Prize shows can have a lot of topological charm, even for the uniniated. They can really give you a sense of what is recognized and filtered out as qualitative art by experts in a certain place at a certain time. I just say this so [...]
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And the prize goes to…(Berlin)
Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, 2007
Photo: Anders and Anne, flickr
I recently visited a short list show for the National Gallery’s Young Art Prize at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin.
As the press release told me, “the four nominated artists – Jeanne Faust, Ceal Floyer, Damián Ortega and Tino Sehgal – have avoided all superficial effects. With their works, [...]
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