Exhibition of Marina Gisich Gallery artists in the project "Promotion II. Meta–landscape" at the GROUND Solyanka Gallery-Workshop
Curator of the project: Katya Bochavar
In addition to the literary game, the term "burime" (French bouts-rimés "rhyming ends") also refers to a game with the transfer of the visible part of the drawing to the next participant. Artists and composers play in the series of exhibitions "Promotion" in Burim. Created in various genres: painting, graphics, sculpture, photography, video art, the works are "transmitted" to composers and sound artists, and based on the impressions of the works, the musicians write their compositions. As a result of the collaboration, a unique combination of visual and soundscapes is formed. The third part of this multi—genre "burime" is, of course, the one whose peculiar perception and emerging associations complete a series of interconnected links - the viewer and the listener, completing this "game". You want to enter the landscape, get involved, become a part of it, and the sounds contribute to this involvement. It's like we're standing on a mountain, at the edge of a forest, at the window of a house, peering, listening. We move through landscapes, and they, in turn, move through us, creating a music video, a sound arrangement of places. The "Propeizage" project is a journey to places created by artists and musicians together.
"GROUND Solyanka exhibits works by 15 authors — 8 artists and 7 composers, on the theme of landscape. The exhibition gives us an idea of how diverse an artistic perspective can be within a single genre," says curator Katya Bochavar. "In my opinion, it is possible to see the author himself more clearly in the landscape than in any other genre, to trace the ways in which the artist transforms reality into a work of art."
St. Petersburg artist Peter Bely deconstructs a romantic landscape, decomposing it into its components — waves, forest and clouds. Using building materials and hand tools to create works, the artist encodes the poetics of construction in the elements of a classical landscape. "Marshes" by Peter Shvetsov is a project exploring the boundaries of painting using the example of a single motif — a landscape with a swamp. The picturesque texture is tested here for its ability to convey the depth of a submerged quagmire, in which gaze and meaning become entangled. "Marshes" is a range of works united by the initial desire to peer as closely as possible into the etymological essence of the swamp, into its picturesque depth. A lot of strange things are happening in Rinat Voligamsi's world. It is difficult to identify a specific source, as if the very being of the forest is endowed with unprecedented forces that deform the reality around it, and the light comes to life and becomes the acting hero of the mystical plot. In his video works, Wilgeny Melnikov attracts nature as a co–author, capturing on camera the results of the improvisational interaction of natural phenomena with their objects. The landscape is what we see and how we see it. In his project "High Water", Kaluga artist Vladimir Marin does not change the optics of the image, but the optics of the frame in which this image is inscribed. The "floating", deconstructed window frames transform our attitude to what we see. In Oleg Makarov and vitalinair's "Window" sound installation, Moscow metro announcers read out poems by Vladislav Khodasevich, as if each line were an announcement of a non—existent metro station. Together with the authors, the visitor embarks on an auditory journey along underground routes.
