15 December 2015 - 13 March 2016
We Invite You to the Moscow Museum of modern art MMOMA on Petrovka 16.12.2015 to the exhibition "One within another. Art new and old media in the era of high-speed Internet"
The exhibition will be opened for visitors since 16.12.2015 till 13.03.2016 year.
Moscow Museum of modern art is presented the exhibition "One within another. Art new and old media in the era of high-speed Internet". The rooms on the third floor of the building of MMOMA on Petrovka Street will accommodate eight art projects executed in 2012 – 2015 -ies by using different materials and technologies: from painting to electronic media. In the framework of a long-term strategy to replenish these selected and created especially for the exhibition, works will be recommended for acquisition into the collection of MMOMA.
The authors of works – Maria Agureeva, Kirill Garshin, Yevgeny Granilshchikov, Eugenia Matchneva, Dmitry Morozov, Dmitry Okruzhnoj and Maria Sharova, Rostan Tavasiev, Jan Tamkovich are belong to the young generation in contemporary Russian art. Thus,they were born in the USSR,all of them remember a world without cell phones, Wikipedia and social networks. In the mid – 2000 -ies, they witnessed the widespread dissemination of digital technologies, especially broadband Internet hybrid main means of communication in the current era, which significantly changed the usual forms of behavior and communication, attitudes towards knowledge and attention, perception of space and time.
Perhaps it was this unique generational experience was largely determined by the interest of the protagonists to genealogy, the mixing and interpenetration of the various mediums, in particular painting the edges of their author's poetics. Such a "recursive" relation to materials and technologies, whatever they may seem to us – the means of human empowerment or milestones on the road to oblivion natural skills and abilities, given the Car – brings to mind the famous phrase of the canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan (1911 – 1980) that "the content of any medium is always another medium". This aphorism was the starting point for the exhibition at MMOMA.
All the exhibited projects in their own way demonstrate the nesting of visual technologies, when one medium is viewed in a different, "old" to "new" and Vice versa, like endless reflections in the mirrors opposite. Family photos or borrowed from the Internet digital images that are reproduced in the paintings; art objects open accounts and communicate on Facebook; details of industrial mechanisms become "patterns" on the hand-woven tapestries; in the video, filmed on a mobile phone, flash interfaces of various electronic devices; the project of a single artist as the material for the installation of another; the ancient sacred sculpture technicist guessed in the guise of a robot, but a living flesh – colored polished plastic.
In the exhibition halls, each of the eight art projects appear not in itself, but surrounded by the author's "laboratory" – a variety of documentary materials and artifacts that shed light on the process of creation of the work, its exhibition history, or, on the contrary, devoted his subsequent comprehension by the artist. It is essential that the majority of the laboratory exhibits will be shown for the first time. They will allow viewers to immerse themselves in a creative mental space heroes of the exhibition, providing the key to their plan, and will focus on the phenomenon of intermediation – the migration of ideas and images, human anxieties and dreams from one material carrier to another.
The project "One within another" Art new and old media in the era of high-speed Internet" in a sense continue the discussion, given the exhibition "200 beats per minute", which will be devoted to the role of typewriters in the Russian culture of last century and appears simultaneously on the second floor of the Museum building at Petrovka. Turning to the level of artistic and theoretical reflections on technology in art, the exhibition on the third floor takes the viewer to the contemporary context of digital media domination.