Exhibition of Mila Arbuzova "Chronicle of unregistered processes" in "ARMMUSE"

“Chronicle of unregistered processes” is a constantly updated series of works by St. Petersburg artist and journalist Mila Arbuzova.

The exhibition will be held from April 13 to April 27, 2015.

Address: St. Petersburg, V.O., 13 line, d.72 (4th floor)

Mila Arbuzova writes on the verge of a foul. She uses absolutely any sources to express her attitude to reality, mixing political events, cartoon images, characters from past eras and photographs of her friends - as if they are absolutely homogeneous and equal. This destruction of semantic hierarchies is not just an extravagant gesture. This is exactly how things are in our subconscious, as, indeed, in Facebook (продукт Meta Platforms Inc., компания признана экстремистской организацией, деятельность на территории РФ запрещена)’s friend-tape.

INTERPASSIVITY

“Chronicle of unregistered processes” is not an encyclopedia of everyday life, listing meticulous banalities in an attempt to resist the pathos of officialdom or glamorous mannerism, reducing the meaning of existence, but an attempt to identify the true meaning of what is slipping away from this everyday life. That is why various fragments of reality are often mixed in the paintings, and in quite realistic plots unexpected intersperses appear - cartoon characters or masterpieces of painting of the past. They were not placed there for fun - they have a serious mission to serve as markers of what is happening. After all, Shrek with numerous offspring and Princess Fiona, who changed her biological species for love of her partner, are the symbols of heterosexuality that came to the love parade, and Karl Bryullov’s “Last Day of Pompeii” is a synonym for chaos and destruction, against which the next “election” takes place - one from fictions of modern society.

ELECTIONS

An artist about her series: “Reality fantastically constantly eludes definitions. Despite its commonplace, it is always wider than any context. Any story is always just a version, or a small part of what actually happened. In this constant elusiveness is the magic of life and art.

A “chronicle of unregistered processes” is not only a socio-ironic cast of reality, but also an attempt to capture a variable flow of feelings, sensations, obsessive states generated by it, as well as a flow of displacement and mixing of meanings.

Fidelity to nature and careful attention to details are caused by the redundancy of reality, which is so rich in information, diverse, contradictory, comical, tragic, absurd, warlike and gentle, that, as a rule, there is no particular reason to increase entropy by inventing something that does not exist. However, the focus of author’s optics is directed beyond the physical limits of people and objects. ”

MILA ARBUZOVA

Born in the USSR in 1973. The first two years passed in a communal apartment on Grazhdanskaya Street, in the house where the hero of the novel F.M.Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment killed his grandmother. Many nationalities intertwined in the Arbuzova family - these are Russians, Ukrainians, Jews, as well as Czechs, Swedes and Germans.

Studied at art school number 11. In 1993, she began to paint the first paintings, first with oil, and then with acrylic.

In 1998, she graduated from St. Petersburg Humanitarian University of Trade Unions with a degree in art criticism, and defended a diploma in Chinese informal painting from the 7th to 13th centuries - Taoist monks, masters of the Chan school, and artists and writers.

In 1998-2005, she worked as an art critic in the S.P.A.S. Gallery, in the magazine New World of Art, as a journalist in Na Nevsky, Turnkey, FREE TIME, St. Petersburg Dog.ru ”,“ 100% Red ”(articles about culture and art, interviews). Also, publications were in the German magazine “Vostok”, in St. Petersburg newspapers (“Evening Petersburg”, “Evening Time”, “Activist”, etc.). At the same time experimented in the genres of painting, graphics and performance.

In 2010-2011, she was part of the St. Petersburg Parents initiative group of citizens, who fought to maintain free quality education in Russia. In 2012, she collaborated with the public organization Observers of St. Petersburg, fighting for fair elections.

He is one of the founders and curator of the international art project BIOWOMAN.

He paints with acrylic, combining naive realism, social irony and a transcendental view of the surrounding reality.

Collaborates with the journal "On Nevsky" as a journalist.

Member of IFA (Creative Union of Artists) since 2015.

Personal exhibitions were held at ZERO gallery, the Center for the Support of Art "Sergienko Apartment", the gallery "100 OWN".

She participated in group exhibitions in the Erarta Museum, in the exhibitions of the BIOWOMAN project in Germany, Israel, the USA and Russia, in the exhibition in the Kresty Prison, in the Russian National Library, in the gallery “100 ITS”, the Peter and Paul Fortress, Manege and other

Mother of three sons (11, 13 and 17 years old).