Vladimir Logutov’s new installation at the Regina Gallery in Moscow contains objects and a video, realized by the artist in the last two years.
The installation imitating the remains of an abandonned industrial space, like a “vanitas”, acts as a Requiem for the industrial era.
The exhibition is on view at the Regina gallery in Moscow until August 1st, 2013
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While the Russian Pavilion at the 55th International Venice Biennal is dedicated to the conceptualist artist Vadim Zakharov who revisits the ancient Greek myth of Danae, the exhibition “Lost in Translation”, curated by Antonio Geusa and organized by the Moscow Museum of Modern Art presents more than 100 artwork in various media by established and emerging Russian artists. The exhibition explores how the “Russian context” explains the resistance and difficult translatability of Russian art.
Vladimir Logutov’s videowork “Pause” and “Structured Space” are among the artwork exhibited.
On view at Ca Foscari, Dorsoduro 3246, Venice, until Sept 15th.
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One of the best representatives of the young Ukrainian artscene, Masha Shubina, winner of the Pinchuk Art Center Special Prize, presents a new series of artwork, focused as usual on the artist’s personality, at the Pechersky Gallery in Moscow from May 16th to June 16th, 2013.
“Lost and Found” project, oil on tracing paper, 2013, courtesy the artist and Pechersky Gallery
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The photographs of the young artist Ivan Mikhaylov depict a reality that seems to be far from us : soviet-style playgrounds made of rockets from another era; young people, covered with plaids, who seem lost looking to the buildings of a huge city.
But this reality is the contemporary Russia: a country that has lost any kind of inspiration and lives with the nostalgy of dreams like space exploration; a vast city, Moscow, with its agressive advertising, traffic jams, and expensive shop windows, that seems inadapted for the young people moving from the provinces to the capital.
The galerie Stanislas Bourgain is happy to promote the artwork of this talented Russian contemporary photographer, born in the small city of Novocheboksarsk on the Volga river and living now in Moscow.
His photographs also inaugurate a new digital extension of the gallery on the artplace artsper.com
Each photograph is available on the formats 30x30cm, 50x50cm and 100x100cm, edition of 10, 7 and 5 copies.
GARAGE, the Moscow’s Center for Contemporary Cutlture, has invited DIANA MACHULINA to teach children how to perceive art freely.
Diana has called her course ‘THE SCHOOL OF VISUAL TOLERANCE’.
It’s not a surprise that the Garage has chosen one of the best contemporary painter in Russia for these classes. The title of the course reveals Diana’s humour and her ability through her paintings to force us to abandon our standard reactions.
The Moscow’s National Center for Contemporary Arts has conceived a series of exhibitions that bring together in one space works by the artists whose artistic language was formed in the 1960s-70s and those by the representatives of the new generation.
The third one establishes a dialogue between Erik Bulatov (1933), known for writting Soviet quotes across landscape paintings, and Samara based Vladimir Logutov (1980), often called as the representative of “new” or “urban” formalism.
Erik Bulatov. Freedom is freedom, 1997-1998, courtesy the artist and NCCA
Using non-linear editing, Vladimir Logutov creates layered space of a frame, often experimenting with space and time, and constructing shifts in neutral city landscapes. His focus is on manipulating the viewer’s attention.
The exhibition shows new works of Vladimir Logutov, the video animations from the “Structured Space” series.
Structured Space, videoanimation, Vladimir Logutov, 2012
In this series of 10 videos created in 2012, Logutov employs such polar visual techniques as documentary photography and geometric animation. The changing shades of the image alter our perception of the colour of the landscape, creating the sensation of different times of day and night. But upon taking a closer look, it turns out that the subject is developing in real time.
The exhibition is on view from Feb 20 to March 3, 2013 at the NCCA in Moscow.
In a group show of New Russian Art supported by the Foundation of Vladimir Smirnov and Konstantine Sorokin, Vladimir Logutov is unveiling a new series of videowork.
The project, called “Structured Space”, shows documentary images of the Russian landscape – a street, the banks of the Volga river, a white horse in a snowy weather – transformed by multicoloured circles, inserted signs or unsual background, altering our perception of the subject.
As in his previous videowork (“Twilight”, “The Park”, “The Episode”), with a combinaison of subtile visual experiments, Logutov transforms our perception of eventless subject, conveying a medidative feel to it.
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You may remember the exhibition “Cultural Tips for New Americans“, by the artists Alina & Jeff Bliumis, presented at the Galerie Stanislas Bourgain in 2010.Today, they bring the project full circle with an exhibition called “Cultural Tips Takeway” at the Toomer Labzda Gallery, NY. The Bliumis transformed the gallery into a souvenir shop, filled with 104 objects, each one illustrating a tip. These objects are supposed to be acquired and return back to the local Lower East Side community from which they derived.
The exhibition is on from Nov 11 until Dec 16, Toomer Labzda Gallery, 100a forsyth street, new york, NY.
With this new project, following their “Language Barrier” and “Casual Conversations in Brooklyn” other projects, the Bliumis continue to surprise us by the way they explore brilliantly and with lots of humor, cultural standards, foreignness and national identity through their artwork,.
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The Guangzhou Triennial is one of the biggest art events in China . Curated by Jiang Jiehong and Jonathan Watkins, the Triennial will take place across three venues, from 28 September to 16 December 2012.
This year, among the 75 international artists from 24 countries is Vladimir Logutov, “one of the most interesting artists in Russia”.
Born in 1980 in Samara (Russia) where he currently lives and works, Vladimir Logutov is Russia’s most famous contemporary video artist.
With a background in drawing and painting, he has worked with video since 2003. “At the core of Vladimir Logutov work is a simple game : transforming reality with the help of reality”, said Italian-born curator Antonio Gueusa.
His videowork combine natural footage with computer montage, conveying a meditative narration that he is taking from the painting and drawing experience, and accompanied by his own reflexion.
In the Guangzhou Triennal, Logutov will exhibit the four-channel video installation “Pause” and paintings from the series “BOOM”. In these paintings, ” I want to oppose the ‘explosive’ dynamics of abstract painting to conditional statics of the video reaching the ultimate stopping point”, says Vladimir Logutov.
Latest exhibitions of Vladimir Logutov at the Galerie Stanislas Bourgain are:
- “interpenetration of the real and the visible”, video installation, drawings, paintings, 2008
- “Fragments”, video installation, paintings, drawings, at Volta Artfair, NY, 2010
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One of the most popular contemporary ukrainian artist, Masha Shubina, presents a new exhibition in Kiev, in the frame of the programme “Kyiv pop-up gallery”, initiated by Kadygrob & Taylor Art Projects, an independent platform for developing contemporary art in Ukraine.
The show entitled “Lost and Found” is composed of works from the series “Backside” and”National Terror”, exhibited in transport containers, in a Passage street of Central Kyiv.
The hyper-realistic paintings represent, as usual, the artist himself, this time wearing the colorful ukrainian scarves. Using a symbol of the traditional ukrainian woman’s wear, even if made in China, Masha Shubina brings a reflexion on national cliches and the obsessive struggle to preserve national identity.
The show is on view in Kiev, Khreschatik 15 from Sept 15 to 24, 2012
More info : http://pop-up.kiev.ua/project2.html
