Exhibition of Andrei Budaev and Alexander Rusnak "Dreams of the cartographer." 12+

On August 30, in the Gallery A3 of the Exhibition Halls of Moscow Association, an exhibition of photo collages “Cartographer’s Dreams” opens as part of the UrbanFest festival. The exhibition will feature a series of works by poster artist Andrei Budaev and film director Alexander Rusnak, which was based on the working materials of the preparatory period of the film expedition in Venice 2017–2018.

Venice, as the classic said, is a mixture of mysticism and culinary, magic and pasta, fantasy and reality. Painting, building facades, canals, shadows that are more like the main characters of the movie are mysticism. Is pasta a reality, or vice versa? La Serenissima (Lightest) attracted, caressed, scared away. The Queen of the Seas was not fond of, they dreamed of her. The great ones, among whom were Stravinsky, Diaghilev, Brodsky, found inspiration and comfort here, dreaming of falling asleep here forever, becoming part of a magical dream city. For hundreds of years, scientists around the world have been exploring the phenomenon of dreams and human memory, arguing about the relationship, often attributing many real facts to forgery and hoax.

“What is considered mysticism in one century becomes scientific knowledge in another…” This phrase of Paracelsus was often printed on the labels of bottles of Venetian pharmacies. Is there a potion both from frightening mysticism and from overly “scientific” knowledge?

Andrei Budaev: “For us, these notes were as part of the game, and as preparation for the film. We lived in different parts of the city, and changed our hotel rooms once every seven days. I left in my computer with sketches, and the director in my - a computer with texts. The main thing was not to cross and not call up. He saw everything that I shot, and I what he wrote. I continued to shoot, reading his notes, and he wrote new stories from my photographs.

A month later, our photographs and texts formed a multidimensional figurative-semantic space, a mental map of the Venetian cosmos. As we saw and perceived it. It was a pattern of dreams, fantasies, rays of light due to the doors of houses that were not open at night, silhouettes in the windows and reflections of the sky in the channels. On the plane on the way to Venice, only one task was voiced to me as an artist: “Successful work - flying without a final destination. At the same time, each of this points, like your own Venice, is those places that you discovered for yourself in childhood, which are manifested only to you by the well-known colors on the contour maps of any cities. ”

Gallery Opening Hours - Tuesday-Sunday
Dates: 08/30/2018 - 09/16/2018
Opening hours: 12:00 - 20:00
Cost: 100 rubles - full; 50 rubles - preferential