| ART MOSCOW 2007: Special Projects Kommunalka (Hall 21) Seven famous Russian artists will share one apartment during the work of the fair. Living together they will have to fulfill a series of incentive tasks targeted at releasing their creative resources and liberating them as individuals. For several days they will be “cut off from the world” in the Central House of Artists, the most appropriate space for artists. As in any other self-esteemed reality-show they will be visited by famous guests, and every day the stringent jury (including guests of the fair) will come to a decision “who of the inhabitants must leave the project.”
Shargorod. The First Landing (Hall 19) The exhibition shows selected works of the art created during the Art-Mestechko/Shargorod International Festival of Modern Art that was held in a small provincial town Shargorod in the Ukraine in August 2006. The Festival was interesting first and foremost as regards its genre that could be named as “the art descent genre.” It had a new and interesting form of a street festival incidentally making the town citizens both spectators and subjects of modern art. From this point of view the phenomenon of the Shargorod Festival went far beyond familiar and dull “field exhibition” practice and became the manifestation of a new variant or rather a new format of public art becoming a bold attempt to comprehend and express the substance of the provincial town milieu the popular capital art is unfamiliar with.
Igor’s Mania. Glyuklya and Tsaplya (Hall 7) The Found Clothes Factory. In 2007, Glyuklya and Tsaplya, women artists from Saint Petersburg and participants in the Factory of Found Clothes Project, became winners of the Black Square, a national modern art award. Their film “Three Mothers and Children's Choir” cut to the hearts of the most jury members. The art of TV “documentality”, that has successfully disarmed not to say eliminated quite a number of works of art in recent years, was overcome for the benefit of high theatricality and thanks to that art survived in this case. In Igor’s Mania, their new project, that Glyuklya and Tsaplya present at ART MOSCOW; the artists continue to work with the art of “documentality”. Glyuklya and Tsaplya say: “This exhibition is a portrait of aberration. The aberration that there is no equality in relations among people. If there is no understanding there is no pleasure in recognizing ourselves in other people, there is no pleasure of understanding that we are different, there is no justice and there is no love. Such a nightmare comes from time to time to all of us living on earth when we hide ourselves in the corner, lock our room and then it becomes impossible to move to eternal life.”
Beyond the Sound (Ground floor) This project is the result of artist Yuri Kalendarev’s work with “granite, environmental art and light projects - Sound Plates. The visual effect of the sculpture becomes in this project an insignificant aspect compared with the "hidden voice"of the reverberant sculpture. In a sense these sounding sculptures are just “devices” to listen to silence. Their substance transcends the Sound and people cooperating with them broaden their consciousness.”
And Just Enjoy Being/Meat (Hall 23) Installations and performances of French artist Tristan Favre and Russian artists Ivan Razumov and Dmitry Fine are an interaction of the sculpture composition and the sound. Tristan Favre’s project is a composition with a hundred plates illustrating mass culture in France. The plates are very well suited to demonstrate likes and dislikes of particular society. They are also used to preserve the precious image because of their decorative style and historical aspect, they depict political views and they are souvenirs keeping reminiscences as well.
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