September 13 at 19:00 in the gallery "Belyaevo" Association "Exhibition Halls of Moscow" in the framework of the Parallel Program of the 7th Moscow International Biennale of Contemporary Art with the support of the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Moscow and the Czech Center in Moscow, the official opening of the exhibition "Luddits" will be held.

Timothy Dorofeev, Man from London (Luddita project)

The exposition will include the work of representatives of two art scenes of Prague and Ufa, where painting occupies different positions.

What were the main motives of workers in the English factories destroying textile machines in March 1811? Considering Luddites exclusively as opponents of new technologies, we lose sight of many details. A movement without a leader, it quickly gained momentum throughout England. But the reasons why workers began to break up the machines were different: it was the threat of losing a job in the conditions of a comprehensive poor, and the rational desire to use those skills that took a lot of time to get. This is human reluctance to be replaced by a mechanism, the energy of a crowd that cannot be resisted, and you can only join. Or was hitting a textile machine the only way to bring employers’ attention to the conditions in which you work? Or to be a luddite means to strive to work at the same pace at a time when the whole world is accelerating?

Can disagreement speak the language of global contemporary art be the same practice of resistance? Can realism be the same blow to the loom of modern exhibition production? “Luddites” will combine the work of representatives of two artistic scenes of Prague and Ufa, where painting occupies completely different positions.

Luddites in everyday speech are also called people who are not ready or unable to put up with new technologies. Since 2014, the Belyaevo Gallery has been a structural unit of the Moscow Exhibition Halls Association, a project designed to return culture to remote areas of Moscow. The staff of the Belyaevo Gallery, an integral part of the process of increasing the efficiency of the industry, will be reduced to the work of the artist Alisa Oleva.

Participants: Vasily Artamonov (Prague, Czech Republic), Alexey Klyuykov (Prague, Czech Republic), Dominic Forman (Prague, Czech Republic), Timofey Dorofeev (Ufa, Russia), Olga Tsimbolenko (Ufa, Russia), Alisa Oleva (Moscow, Russia / London, United Kingdom).

Curator: Maria Sarycheva (born 1991, Ufa, lives and works in Moscow, Russia).

The exhibition project was organized with the support of the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Moscow and the Czech Center in Moscow.

Exhibition "Luddites" (12+)
Opening Date: September 13, 2017, 19:00
Dates: August 31 - October 1, 2017
Opening hours: Tue - Sun 11: 00–20: 00
Cost: 100 rub. (50 rubles. - discount ticket)

Luddites. Russia, Czech Republic Automatic translate

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