EXHIBITION "KIRILL BENEFICIARIES. 32 YEARS. MOSCOW." ARTIST VLADIMIR POTAPOV

GALLERY pop / off / art.

In this project, Vladimir Potapov acts as a researcher of the media space, works with the theme of the influence of social. networks and manipulation of public consciousness. The hero of the research is Kirill Blagolepov, or rather the profile in the face book, which is a fake account created specifically for winding up votes, likes and other activities.

The works presented by the artist are based on the visual field of the page, consisting of reposts of other people’s publications and photographs.

This project is both a monument to anonymity and an ode to digital avatars posing as human beings. “We have witnessed the emergence of a new entity - digital, which in a short period of its life manages to break out by imitating human consciousness, affect socio-political processes, and turn into digital decay, from which nothing remains. I will perpetuate this replica, find and describe her identity, create a memory of her and make this household name, ”the author says.

Potapov uses a holographic film as a basis for painting to emphasize the virtuality of what is happening. In his opinion, the holographic basis is of a technical nature and its radiance refers to the light of Tabor. If the icon has a divine and sacred light, then at the works of Potapov the light is technocratic, and because of the repeating patterns of the pattern - matrix.

Potapov takes a holographic film, this cheap, kitsch material and illustrates with it a new digital world. His paintings are luminous with “digital radiation”, the painting layer erupts and digital reality flickers under it with a cold glow.

Vladimir Vladimirovich Potapov was born in 1980 in Volgograd. He received an art education at the Institute of Arts. P. A. Serebryakova (Volgograd) in 2000-2001. In the future, a graduate of the Institute of Contemporary Art and Free Workshops (Moscow).

Potapov is the only author of his generation who is programmatically engaged in the resuscitation and development of painting. The artist has established himself as a revisionist and innovator of modern painting. In each new series of works, the author revises the main conventions of painting and causes a logical interest in his experiments as an ordinary spectator and representatives of the art community.

Potapov is called an alchemist in painting for his use of non-standard painting materials from transparent media to complex layered paint structures. The artist already has several museum exhibitions, including European ones, participation in a number of prestigious European exhibitions and a long list of nominations and awards in the field of contemporary art.

Participant and curator of dozens of group exhibitions.

The personal exhibition “From memory” was shown at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (2015), the personal exhibition “Only History Ahead” was held in the Kunsthall of Rostock, Germany (2018).

The artist’s works are included in collections of such institutions as the Museum of Modern Art (Krakow), the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Modern Art PERMM (Perm), and the Museum of Modern Art Sergey Kurekhin (St. Petersburg), the foundation of Vladimir Smirnov and Konstantin Sorokin (Moscow), in a number of status private and corporate collections.