Russia (bbabo.net), - The All-Russian Museum of Decorative Arts has opened a Russian-American exhibition with the strange title "It's about time to start the fast brown fox again ... isn't it?"
In fact, there are no foxes here, and this phrase is used in the English-speaking world to test the alphabet. It contains all the letters of the Latin script, as well as Arabic numerals.
This phrase is used to check the keys on the device in order to avoid errors and misunderstandings in message texts. It was this goal - to avoid misunderstandings for normal contact - that the organizers faced when the project was started. It contains 15 works by Russian and 15 works by American contemporary artists, reflecting the global challenges of the time and ways to respond to them.
“There are more than 30 participants,” Natalya Kolodzei, curator of the American side, clarifies. - After all, many of the works presented at the exhibition were made by a group of artists. And most of them are made especially for this exhibition.
Video art, installations, painting, sculpture - the forms and genres used by the authors are very different. One thing in common - the global problems that concern humanity today. So Clea T. Waite in "Moonwalk" analyzes the attitude of our countries to space exploration. On the screen we see the Moon in the form of an appetizing kolobok. Every now and then it is divided into fragments-windows, from which the history of the development of this celestial body opens.
And Vitaly Komar in his "Color Code" encrypted the correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and Alexander I: it addresses us to the origins of Russian-American relations, which were by no means always tense.
Ecology, social communication, the development of science and the responsibility of scientists for their discoveries - artists reflect on all this. Particularly touching is Anna Franz's installation "A Pud of Salt", which visualizes a Russian proverb: a real peck of salt is poured here on a pallet in a thin stream, like the contents of an hourglass.
Project curators from the Russian side Ivan Kolesnikov and Sergey Denisov pay special attention to digital technologies and video art. Thus, Konstantin Khudyakov in his work "Chess" demonstrates how any move causes apocalyptic events... Annushka Broshe's work "Brains in the Nets" is very expressive. Here are presented human brains sculpted from ceramics, united by multi-colored threads.
Despite the physiological name, the work is very aesthetic: the images that occupy the minds of our compatriots (someone has a child, some have nature, some have an architectural monument) are clear and expressive.
Of particular note is the very finely crafted graphics by Konstantin Batynkov and the large collective project "Ice Age", created by 25 artists of experimental creative workshops under the direction of Evgeny Semenov.
In addition to such venerable artists as the master of kinetic art Vyacheslav Koleichuk, it also features young authors.
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