Ultra-New Materiality

Dal Wednesday 23 September 2009
al Sunday 25 October 2009

This exhibition explores a tendency well developed on the Moscow art scene: the total and deeply rooted pessimism concerning contemporary art. Looking at the post-war years in Europe and the theory of “new realism”, one can assume that today the crucial topic in contemporary art is attention to the human being and to his/her personal experience. This is made possible thanks to the comeback of an emotionally-oriented artwork and finds its best expression in videos. Video has become the main artistic genre of the “Ultra-New Materiality” program carried on by the Contemporary City Foundation. During one year, the foundation hosted small solo exhibitions by 12 artists that will now be united in the single museum space. They are Alina and Jeff Bliumis, Dmitriy Bulnygin, Alina Gutkina, Yakov Kazhdan, Elena Kovylina, Eleonore de Montesquieu, Ksenia Peretrukhina, “PROVMYZA” group, Eugeniy Fiks, “Found Clothes Factory” group, Marina Chernikova, Masha Sha.

Status:
Special Project

Curator:
Andrei Parshikov

Opening:
September 23, 7 pm

Dates:
September 24 - October 25

Venue:
Moscow Museum of Modern Art at 17 Ermolaevsky Lane, floors 2-5