Blow Up Illusions. Exhibition of Marina Rudenko

The Center for Creative Industries “Factory” together with E.K.ArtBureau represent Marina Rudenko’s project “Blow Up Illusions”, implemented as part of the non-competitive program “Factory Workshops. Session III ”, the opening of which will take place on March 7 at 19:00 in the hall“ Olivier ”(TTI Factory). Most of the works presented at the exhibition were created in 2017 specifically for the exposition.

Blow Up Illusions is a reconstruction project of sensations and emotions from the past that are essentially empty. Like balloons, memories are air packed in one or another shell. Their form can be any and most often is born from stereotypes and patterns that exist in the family, society and mass culture. The selective memory and human consciousness distort events that actually happened, giving rise to monsters and creating tragedies where they did not exist or vice versa, replacing really scary moments with bright and joyful pictures. This idea of the author is illustrated by a work in which parts of curly balloons are combined with each other and fairy creatures mutate into unexpectedly cute monsters.

The exposition is built as a collective image of an amusement park - in a sense, it is a supermarket of emotions and a concentrate of children’s happiness - the truth is a fake holiday. Artificial flowers that pretend to be real, a giant smile instead of the sun, designer parts that don’t fit together, a room of fear from toys whose owners have matured and no longer need them, rumpled balloons and the “tunnel of love” that is familiar only from Western cartoons and movies - it’s hard to imagine where he actually leads.

“This is a phantasmagoric world of cliché images that have gathered and layered on each other for many years. At some point, this world ceased to be comfortable and the individual parts no longer add up to a single whole picture. But now they can be combined and interchanged, thereby causing unexpected emotional reactions that are not so familiar and convenient for most, ”says Marina Rudenko.

“Despite the fact that the third session of the Factory Workshops competition was dedicated to the work of artists from 1968-1980. birth, we show outside the competition the project of Marina Rudenko - one of the most striking and active representatives of the new generation of Russian authors. She consistently works in her recognizable style and develops her own language in art. For the artist this is the first personal project of this kind - software - scale. Marina raises a topic that is close to many, regardless of age - about childhood, memory, fears, childhood dreams that have come true and unfulfilled, ”comments Asya Filippova, director of the Center for Industrial Property.

Marina Rudenko was born in 1988 in Moscow. Graduated from the G.V. Russian Academy of Economics Plekhanov and a professional retraining program at the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University named after MV Lomonosov.

A graduate of the Free Workshops at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, A. Rodchenko School of Photography and Multimedia and the Institute of Contemporary Art. Organizer, curator and participant in a number of projects, including:

2016 - Organization of the intervention on the construction site “FASAD Under Construction” (as part of the curatorial group), Moscow.

2016 - Curator of the project “Says Izhevsk” (as part of the curatorial group), Izhevsk, Moscow.

2015 - Lecturer in the course “Strategies and Self-Promotion for Beginning Artists”, “Free Workshops” School, MMSI, Moscow.

2014 - Debut curatorial project “Moscow Says” (nominee for the Sergey Kuryokhin Award: “Best Curatorial Project”), Ekaterina Cultural Foundation, Moscow.

2014 - The first personal exhibition “Pixelization of Space” (as part of the Debut project of the Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art and the parallel program of the 4th Moscow International Biennale of Young Art “Time to Dream”), Belyaevo Gallery, Moscow.

Competition "Factory workshops. Session III ”was organized in December 2015 in collaboration with E.K. Art Bureau and was slightly different in format from the previous program: authors of 1968 - 1980 were invited to participate. birth, that is, those who formally have already left the age of the "young artist" and fall into the category called in English "mid - career artists". The out-of-competition program is consistent with previous sessions, when the workshop was issued regardless of the artist’s age. Marina Rudenko, a participant in the out-of-competition program, worked for exactly one year in the Factory Workshop. This exhibition summarizes the work and stay of the artist in the space of the Center for Industrial Property “Factory”.

Artist: Marina Rudenko
Exhibition curator: Sergey Troshchenkov
Exhibition dates: 03/08/17 - 03/29/17,
Tue-Sun 12.00 - 20.00

Venue: Center for Creative Industries "Factory", Hall "Olivier", pp. 2, 1st floor (Entrance No. 1) Moscow, Perevedenovsky per. eighteen.