"Toxic Assets" - a multimedia exhibition in Provident Warehouses

The exhibition was prepared by the Museum of Moscow in collaboration with the artist Aristarch Chernyshev. It was based on video installations, plasticized objects and household rubbish, which often remains behind the scenes of a visually prosperous objective world.

Aristarch Chernyshev - an artist, a pioneer of Russian interactive art, works in the field of video and media art. In his works, he reinterprets the dependence of modern man on information flows, addresses the problem of excessive consumption.

The Toxic Assets project is an author’s view of how today consumption takes the form of a ritual, and the aesthetics of rubbish heaps and inconveniences from constant repairs are part of everyday life. In his works, the accumulated property becomes too expensive an object of storage and, in the end, turns into a suitcase without a handle, becomes the so-called “toxic asset”.

Before the victory of the scientific and technological revolution in the 1980s, things were created efficiently and with great attention, and often their life was assumed to be commensurate with the life of a person, the artist believes. In our time - globalism and cheap labor in third world countries - there is an excess of commodities. According to the artist, today’s “thing” does not have a clear origin: most often design is designed in one world, and the item is made in another. And in the future this process, in all likelihood, will become even more active.

The exhibition will be open from February 21 to March 20

The project was implemented with the participation of the Triumph Gallery.

Museum of Moscow - founded in 1896. This is a modern museum, exhibition, educational and cultural center, which is included in the Top 5 most visited museums in Moscow. The museum is dedicated to the city and the townspeople; on the one hand, it stores the whole history, and on the other, it represents all the most important and interesting things that are happening in Moscow today. The museum’s collection is one of the largest in the country and has more than 1 million artifacts. The museum is located in Proviant warehouses - a monument of architecture of federal significance. The Museum of Moscow has several branches: the Museum of Archeology of Moscow, the Old English Courtyard, the Museum of the History of Lefortovo, the Manor of Vlakhernskoye-Kuzminki, the Center of Gilyarovsky.

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Triumph Gallery was founded by Emelyan Zakharov and Dmitry Khankin in 2006. The gallery works with major Russian and foreign artists, and also supports young art. In addition to projects in its own space, Triumph oversees major exhibitions in Russia and abroad, and also supports young art. In 2013-2015, in conjunction with the Manege MBO and the MediaArtLab Culture Center, the gallery organized exhibitions of media artists as part of the Great Expectations and Fathers and Sons projects. In 2013, the gallery founded the Department of Research Arts, an interdisciplinary science and art project. In 2015, together with MMOMA, the gallery holds exhibitions as part of the Young Lions project. In 2015, Triumph Gallery presented solo exhibitions AES + F and Recycle Group as part of the parallel program of the 56th Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art.