Exhibition "VICTORY AS A NEW EPIC. DEDICATED TO 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF VICTORY"

May 26, 2015 the Russian Academy of Arts and Krokin Gallery in the halls of the Zurab Tsereteli Art Gallery at the address: st. Prechistenka, 19 present the exhibition project “VICTORY AS A NEW EPIC. DEDICATED TO THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF VICTORY. ”

Vladimir Anselm, Ilshat Askari, Tatiana Badanin, Konstantin Batynkov, Alexei Belyaev-Gintovt, ALEXANDER Djikia, ALEKSEY DYAKOV, PLATON Infante, ANDREW IRYSHKOV & ANASTASIYA MIKHAILOVSKAYA, Sergey & TATIANA Kostrikova, DARYA mole, BOHDAN MAMONOV, VLADIMIR Nasedkin NICHOLAS Nasedkin ALEXANDER PANKIN, ALEXANDER PONOMARYOV, SERGEY SONIN & ELENA SAMORODOVA (ie, “LEAD AND COBALT”), MIKHAIL ROZANOV, LEONID TISHKOV, GOR CHAHAL, ANDREI PHILIPPOV, SERGEY CHUTREIRE BREIER, LEI.

This exhibition is about the Victory of the Soviet Union in the Great Patriotic War, about the large-scale phenomenon of recent history, about the formation of a new heroic epic.

The exhibition features more than 50 works by these artists: paintings, graphics, objects, installations, videos.

The exhibition is open to visitors from May 27 to July 5, 2015.

The main idea of the exposition, its substantive plan, is focused on Victory as a phenomenon of this epos that resonates in the space of modern culture. The principal moment of the exhibition will be not so much a feature of the perception of the Victory by people who have been separated from it for many decades, but the format of ownership. This is not an illustration of a specific story, but rather a look from afar and a direct appeal to one’s memory in search of identity, this is nostalgia for the Great, an attempt to reconstruct what would seem to be lost during the years of defeat and loss. It is here, in this semantic space, that a new perspective arises on reading Victory in the Great Patriotic War and the subsequent breakthrough in the formation of a superpower, which has already cut a “window” into space.

Seventy years have passed and Victory is perceived as a predetermined phenomenon, the meaning and significance of which is read from a historical perspective, on the one hand. On the other hand, the quality of the event itself, its significance finds regular analogies with the sacred history. Hence the unexpected association of the biblical sentence to Belshazzar “Mene, mene, tekel, uparsin.” (Dan. 5: 25-28) with the verdict of the 45th, carved by our bayonets on the ruins of the Reichstag.

A lot has remained behind the “frame” of evidence, but there is no doubt about the connection between the 45th and 61st with their rigid settings - “Get it!” And “Let’s go!” It was these slogans that explained and defined the cosmos of our civilization, its motivation, historical orbit, epic content. Space exploration and Gagarin became the logical development of the climax of the 45th with Egorov and Kantaria. The Gagarins from the forty-first to the forty-fifth were millions. Millions of enthusiastic people who lifted the country into an inaccessible orbit and shook the "Babylonian waters" of the millennial ambition of a new world order.

The theme of the Great Victory is complicated in the interpretation of our generation. In relation to this project, it’s more reasonable to talk not about the topic, but about the intonation of the Great Victory, its light shining through the vanity of fabrications and speculations, crumbling to dust under the “pressure of steel and fire” at the foot of its unshakable monument, rooted in the landscapes of world history.

This exhibition is about the Great Victory, about another attempt to try on the “father’s greatcoat” in today’s context - in modern language and new forces.