Evgeny Granilshchikov "Last song of the evening"

On June 7, 2017, the third exhibition of the anniversary cycle, “Farewell to Eternal Youth”, will open in the Workshop of the White Center for Contemporary Art VINZAVOD. Eugene Granilshchikov, one of the most prominent Russian video artists, will present the multimedia installation “The Last Song of the Evening” about his generation, love and politics. At this exhibition, an artist, a graduate of the Rodchenko School, a Kandinsky Prize laureate, will for the first time show a two-channel video installation with the same name “The Last Song of the Evening” and other works, including the short film “At Dawn, Our Dreams Are Brighter,” photographs and graphics made over the past year.

Evgeny Granilshchikov, film frame, Last song of the evening, 2017

The exhibition is a single installation in which each work in one way or another deals with the theme of love and mutual understanding against the background of the tension created by the news flow. There will be many improvisations, random conversations and true stories - peeped and later recreated. The heroes of Yevgeny Granilshchikov are Generation Y, to which the artist himself belongs, and which has become the central theme of the entire series of “Farewell to Eternal Youth”.

The key work of the exhibition is the two-channel film “The Last Song of the Evening”, originally conceived as an experimental series. The author himself defines the genre of the film as "documentation of a performance that lasted for a year and a half." To implement this project, the artist and director invited his close friends. Every day, the characters begin by watching the news and discussing what is happening live.

Evgeny Granilshchikov, film frame, Last song of the evening, 2017

Another film that the audience will see at the exhibition - “At dawn, our dreams become brighter”; It is completely shot on a mobile phone. The action takes place in Paris and is built around the daily life of the two main characters, who, despite their happy Parisian weekdays, still feel detached from home. Video sculptures, abstract photographs and a series of graphics will also be presented.

Artist and independent director Yevgeny Granilshchikov: “I still did not understand that I do not like more - to watch films or make them. Now I’m thinking of quitting all this and opening a losing shop with popcorn, like Scarlett Johanson. ”

In 2017, the Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art, one of the first private art centers in Russia, turns ten years old. During this time, along with WINZAVOD, a generation of artists has grown who today can already claim the title of new heroes of the contemporary Russian art scene. The main event of the anniversary was the cycle "Farewell to eternal youth." Throughout the year, 12 large solo exhibitions of representatives of the new generation in contemporary Russian art will be organized, for which the time has come for transformation - the transition from the status of "young" artists to the status held. As part of the cycle, exhibitions have already opened - “Palazzo Koshelev” by Yegor Koshelev, “City Sauna” by the Urban Fauna Lab (in the Red Shop until June 25). Planned exhibitions of Dmitry Venkov, Arseny Zhilyaev, ZIP groups, Polina Kanis, Taus Makhacheva, Irina Korina, Vladimir Logutov, Misha Most and Recycle. The participants in the cycle are diverse in the areas in which they work. Their personal statements will demonstrate the various processes in contemporary Russian art. Together with the artists of the cycle, viewers will look into the future of Russian art: who will become the hero of our time?

Evgeny Granilshchikov was born in 1985 in Moscow. In 2009 he graduated from the Institute of Journalism and Literary Creativity in Moscow, and in 2013 - from the Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia. A. Rodchenko. Among personal exhibitions: “Something will be lost” (Central Exhibition Hall “Manege”, Moscow, 2014), “Untitled (after defeats)” (Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, 2016). Participant in group exhibitions: Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art (Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, 2017) IV Moscow International Biennale for Young Art (2014), Burning News: Recent Art from Russia (Hayward Gallery, London, 2014), Borderlands (GRAD Gallery, London, 2015), 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (2015), “One inside the other. The Art of New and Old Media in the Age of High-Speed Internet ”(Moscow Museum of Modern Art, 2016). Winner of the Kandinsky Prize in the nomination “Young artist. Project of the Year ”(2013), prize of the Open Frame Award of the goEast film festival (Wiesbaden, 2016), finalist of the Innovation Prize (2014, 2015).

Exhibition of Evgeny Granilshchikov “Last Song of the Evening”
June 7 - July 16, 2017
Tue-Sun 12: 00-20: 00
Center for Contemporary Art WINZAVOD,
4th Syromyatnichesky per., D. 1, p. 6
White workshop
Ticket price: 200 rubles.