(ttelegraf.ru) - In the Norilsk version of the First International Biennale, the Moscow Multimedia Art Museum presented eight projects out of 60 exhibited at MAMM.
At the exhibition “Art of the Future. Favorites” in the art gallery, Natalya Fedyanina, Director of the Norilsk Museum, presenting one of the most successful projects in this country dedicated to the 25th anniversary of MAMM, paid special attention to the fact that Moscow curators included three installations of the Polar Art Residence in the exposition. Norilsk, from which the biennale began its journey through the regions, has become not only a launching pad, but also a partner of the project.
According to the director of the museum and curator of the PolArt-residence, the organizers of the Biennale were amazed at the level of work of the Norilsk residents. The interactive installations TsvetNor by Anna Tolkacheva, Maps of Consciousness by Andrey Chugunov and Norsvet by Mila Mikhailova attracted special attention from city guests, including Moscow journalists who flew in with the curators of the Biennale to attend its opening in Norilsk.
Tatyana Smirnova, Public Relations Director at Norilsk Nickel, who represented the general partner of the Biennale at the ceremony, said that she sees nothing surprising in the fact that the Art of the Future opens in a northern city: “If we say that Norilsk in another spiral of its development is on the verge of changes that have already begun, it is impossible to talk about the development of infrastructure, social facilities, the material world without the development of space and new meanings. The city as a self-reproducing system generates these thoughts and goes far ahead. I am very glad that after a great success the exhibition has come to Norilsk and the people of Norilsk have a unique opportunity to get acquainted with very interesting and profound works for a long time. I want to wish everyone not only to look at the art of the future, but maybe to understand, feel their own future in this city and be successful and happy in their dreams, their desires”.
According to Tatyana Smirnova, Norilsk Nickel is interested in seeing such projects not only exist at large sites, but also land in Norilsk: “We think that the Art of the Future will inspire and set people who drive progress, create values, I will not be afraid of this word, for all mankind”.
The biennale projects brought to Norilsk were presented by Anna Zaitseva, one of the curators of the Exhibition of the Future, MAMM Deputy Director for exhibition activities. The headliner of the Norilsk exposition and the guest of the vernissage was one of the brightest artists in the field of contemporary art, Rostan Tavasiev. Of the 95 works exhibited in the gallery, 41 belong to this participant of the biennale.
The project "Planetary Nebulae" is being created by the artist together with professor of Moscow State University astrophysicist Sergei Popov and he himself even graduated with honors from astronomers' courses.
According to him, on the topic of how and with what the artist will work in outer space, he began with a "dessert", with the most beautiful planetary nebulae. In Norilsk, he will give a lecture "The Path of a Hare to the Stars": the exhibition has a series of "Mirror Hares".
It is known that Rostan Tavasiev is very interested in the northern lights, and he is already thinking about whether it can be given a figurative form - a flower or an animal, for example. Anna Zaitseva noted that before Rostan Tavasiev, none of the artists "thought in this direction."
Thoroughly - 34 works - presented in Norilsk is Muscovite Dmitry Kavka, who creates projects at the intersection of digital and material realities. His media file "Guglonaturmort" enjoyed great attention at the opening.
The Norilsk people literally crowded around the panel with the media file of the art group Gray Cake (Katya Pryanik and Sasha Serechenko) “Dreams of a Machine”, created by artists and two neural networks based on recordings of genuine human dreams.
The most courageous tried to create "masterpieces" with the help of a computer program from Valery Shevchenko, and some of the visitors right at the entrance got stuck at the "Masks" (stereo-vario printing on a lenticular panel) by Maxim Svishchev or looked at Pavel Zeldovich's media file "Facade".
The art of the future, upon closer examination, turned out to be not only fascinating, filled with deep meanings, but also very free and quite understandable. Understandably regardless of age if you delve into. You just have to come, watch and listen. Norilsk residents have two months for this - until the end of January. Then the exhibition will go to Yekaterinburg, but that will be another story.
