DEVE Gallery Moscow - Bruges represents Valera and Natasha Cherkashin. Exhibition "New York, a hunch."

Artists Valera and Natasha Cherkashin have been working together since 1988. They held more than 130 solo exhibitions and 200 promotions. More than 70 TV programs were created about them, including CNN, Deutsche Welle, Italian Super Channel, Russian TV, etc., as well as more than 250 publications, including the Washington Post, Art + Auction, Art Forum, Stern Magazine, etc.

They created the "Metropolitan Cherkashin Museum." “Privatized” the sculptures at the metro station “Ploshchad Revolyutsii” in Moscow. “Married” a girl who fell in love with a sculpture of a young man from the 1930s. in the Moscow Metro. They created their own way to fight inflation in the USSR. Natasha’s birthday was celebrated in the Kremlin and the Capitol. Six months "laundered" a lot of money at the World Bank in Washington. And after that they decided to combine all the best, in their opinion, 33 metro stations of the world into one single Global Underground.

New York is one of the brightest and most unique cities of modern civilization. The first cycle of work on America was created in the 1990s and was part of the Mirage of Empires project. In 1994, Valera and Natasha were in this dynamic and diverse city for the first time. In the United States, they first saw the ocean… The spectacle was so impressive and inspired the photographers that they decided to present this miracle of nature. Cherkashins gave the ocean their work, and he accepted it! This event was reflected in their future work, recalls Valera Cherkashin.

In 1999, Cherkashins created the first series of digital works, with technical support from the School of Visual Art (SVA) in New York. These works expressed certain forebodings of the events of September 11, 2001, which became turning points not only for the life of New York, but also for the whole world. Having been to New York immediately after the tragic events, Cherkashins were shocked by what had happened. In 2002, for an exhibition in the Russian Museum, they created an installation dedicated to these events, the size of which was 6x9 meters. This huge art object was mounted on a vertical axis and moved slightly, personifying the idea of the instability of modern civilization. Since 2003, Cherkashins continued to work with the theme of New York, using digital technology, and in 2006-2007 they created a series of works, which in a new capacity expressed a complex and dramatic premonition of global change and disaster.

“… Recently, the Cherkashin’s attention has been focused on apocalyptic problems - the fate of mankind, burdened with knowledge of tragedies and catastrophes. Earth civilization in the third millennium is really experiencing a fantastic scrapping, and the Cherkashins feel a powerful “tragic hum”, they don’t know what it is, they cannot rationally explain the underlying tectonic shifts that they perceive, but, like true artists, Cherkashins feel a certain shadow with heightened strength that casts the future. Their function is to present in the form of art the way in which the eternal is refracted in the one-second ”.

Dr. Alexander Shatsky

New York 2011

At the New York Foreboding exhibition by Valera and Natasha Cherkashin in DEVEGalleryMoscow, an emotional and grotesque selection of photographs about life in a metropolis is presented, where people, like nowhere else, feel the approach of global changes and epoch-making turns of history. The pace of the big city, thoughts, dreams and fantasies of people caught in the frame are expertly captured by photo artists. “New York premonition” is a series of works not about politics, not about history, and not about the global crisis, it’s recorded moments in time, facial expressions of ordinary people, on the spot of which any of us could be. This is the personal attitude of each person to everything that happens around. What remains behind the curtains of news and television announcements? Where to look for ideas when the theme is life itself?

Within the framework of the exhibition, on September 9, at 19:00, an open lecture by the Cherkashins will be devoted to their work.

The exhibition will be held from September 5 to 11 from 12:00 to 20:00.

Vernissage September 4 at 19:00.

DEVE GalleryMoscow

Moscow, Bolotnaya nab., 11, bld. 1

8 (495) 504-09-72

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