The hybrid art exhibition "Panopticon" opened in Moscow as part of the 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art

September 26 at the Palace of Culture MSTU. Bauman opened the special project of the 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art "Panopticon". The exhibition combines the exhibits of ten famous artists from Russia and Europe, creating their works as a result of technological experiments.

The opening was attended by prominent representatives of art, culture and politics, prominent public figures: collector and philanthropist Viktor Bondarenko, president of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia, chairman of the board of the M’Ars Gallery, full member of the Russian Academy of Arts Konstantin Khudyakov, member of the Public Chamber of the Moscow Region, architect, urban planner Ilya Zalivukhin, designer Olga Timyanskaya, public figure Natalya Prisetskaya, writer, playwright and TV presenter Oleg Shishkin and many others.

What do art and science have in common? What role can artists play today in scientific and technical research, so fatefully affecting the life and development of modern society? The organizers and curators of the exhibition - Maxim Egorov, Elena Komarenko and Alyona Shapovalova saw the project’s mission to raise the question of self-identification for themselves, project participants and spectators: “How does a modern artist see himself when he asks himself the same question as each of us: who am I in this world and where is my place? ”

The organizer of the project, philanthropist Maxim Yegorov, emphasized that it is precisely in attempts to see the unusual - laws, relationships and nuances that are often inaccessible to the eyes of an ordinary person - that unites science and art.

“As it is important for artists to possess the necessary knowledge for self-expression, to have in their hands the entire arsenal of modern means and methods for creating their works, so scientists need a broad, creative thinking that allows them to see and notice the incredible and inconspicuous at first sight details that become points of growth and development of modern scientific thought , ”he said.

Maxim Egorov

“We are good with old art, and few of us are ready to perceive modern. If you are sure that you are not interested in it, and are not going to dissuade yourself from it, then you will never understand it. And thereby limit yourself in development. Meanwhile, contemporary art is more accessible and understandable than the old. But contemporary artists need to learn how to engage in dialogue with their audience. Presenting the exhibition in unexpected places, in the hotel lobby, on the street, or as here at the MSTU, we thereby bring art closer to the audience. And if someone takes your breath away at the sight of the objects of the Panopticon or there are a lot of questions, it means that everything worked, that we completed our task. The purpose of the Panopticon exhibition, like any other art, is to make the viewer look at their life differently, forget about the cliche, inspire, change something. I hope that our project will help people become closer to contemporary art, perhaps discover something new , ”explained the curator of the exhibition, Elena Komarenko.

An artist, curator, specialist in the field of media art, a teacher at MediaArtLab Roman Minaev, speaking about the Panopticon project and its participants, noted: “Perhaps they have chosen the most subtle and difficult to read way of talking about the present - and there are fears that an intellectual response This project will be hard to achieve. But there is always a chance that there will be at least one spectator who, behind the whole aesthetic component and the play of words and concepts, will reveal for himself the main thing, hidden too deep behind the architecture of the space and the names of the authors. ”

Indeed, the artists participating in the Panopticon, speaking in their works on the topic of modernity and answering the question of self-identification, put at the forefront of the entire project, used very unusual visual and plastic means.

Alyona Shapovalova, being also the curator of Panopticon, investigated the influence of stereotypes on issues of human self-identification within the framework of the project. She presented several of her works, among which the picture, which most attracted the attention of the public - “Ten days”.

The work of Alena Shapovalova

The artist Vladimir Potapov presented in the “Panopticon” works in the genre of spatial painting - portraits of people lost in the transition from one time to another.

The work of Vladimir Potapov

Aljoscha, a biofuturist sculptor from Germany, presented an object made of silicone and aluminum, which traveled from India by ferry, fishing boat, land transport, swam on the beach, revealing his form as a creature.

Work Aljoscha

Artist-inventor Sergei Katran presented objects that study the transformation of time, including the Wheel of Time, which has become a kind of symbol of the Panopticon.

A fragment of the work of Sergey Katran

Artist Sergey Katran against the background of his installation Seven seeds

Dmitry Kavarga presented his new, very intimate, according to the artist himself, work - an interactive kinetic object 3x5m “Energy of the impasse”.

A fragment of the work of Dmitry Kavarga

An artist from Sweden, Ekaterina Sisfontes, who studies the movement in space in her work, presented the “Second” object at the exhibition. With this work, the author stated: “the daily perception of movements ceases to occupy the brain as soon as we have mastered their mechanism. And only newborn children are able to pay attention to the process of movement in the subspace of an infinite second of learning. ”

Sculptor Dmitry Zhukov, known for his fundamental metal objects made in the forging technique, exhibited a series of works “Russian lace”.

The works of Dmitry Zhukov

Research artist Denis Patrakeyev in the Panopticon project presented the author’s study “12 + 1”, devoted to questions of the category of the present.

The work of Denis Patrakeev

Marina Ragozina in a number of portraits created with the use of optical technologies, presented a futuristic look at the “golden fund” of classical art through the prism of censorship and total observation. In addition, the artist presented the video program “The Limits of Transparency”, which combined the video works of young Russian artists.

Works of Marina Ragozina

Multidisciplinary artist Igor Baskin presented the “Wall” performance, dedicated to the existential, philosophical, psychological, social aspects of human being and thinking related to overcoming information barriers.

Fragment of Igor Baskin’s performance

The exhibition "Panopticon" is held in the Palace of Culture of MSTU named after N.E.Bauman and will last until October 23.