Photo: Anton Khlabov
Art Works by Anna Frants and Lyudmila Belova will take part in the exhibition «Homage to a Personage» at the Sergei Kuryokhin Center for Contemporary Art.
Exhibition opening: 18 February at 7 PM
Hours:
Mon-Sat: 12 AM — 9 PM
Sun: Closed
Sergey Kuryokhin CCA
St. Petersburg,
Ligovsky pr. 73, 4th floor
T: +7 812 322 4223
The so-called Saint Petersburg myth, created in the 19th century by Alexander Pushkin and Nikolai Gogol, was later developed by the poets Andrei Bely, Alexander Blok, Korney Chukovsky, Samuil Marshak, the “OBERIU” group (Daniil Kharms and Alexander Vvedensky) and others. St. Petersburg fantasy gave rise to absurdist images of dead old women and city officials, noses that walk on their own, as well as to characters known to every Soviet child — Moidodyr, Tarakanische, an absent-minded guy from Basseinaya street.
The collection of the Sergei Kuryokhin CCA contains works by artists who embody contemporary St. Petersburg mythology. Cosmonauts and snowmen, elephants and dwarfs, doctors and musicians — these mysterious entities continue the traditions of the “Petersburg devilry”, while simultaneously creating a new look for historical characters and contemporaries.
Participants:
Vladimir Abikh
Stas Bags
Andrey Bartenev
Anatoly Belkin
Lyudmila Belova
Andrius Venclova
Ilya Gaponov and Kirill Koteshov
Georgy Guryanov
Alexander Dashevsky
Vladimir Dubossarsky
Yuri Dyshlchenko
Vladimir Zagorov
Dmitry Kavko
Boris Kazakov
Vladimir Kozin
Nikolay Kopeikin
Oleg Kotelnikov
Andrey Krisanov
Vasya Lozhkin
Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe
Kostya Mitenev
Marat Murakaev
Vova Perkin
Yuri Petrochenkov
Veronika Rudyeva-Ryazantseva
Andrey Rudiev
Roma Savin
Inal Savchenkov
Maria Safronova
SEVER-7 Art Group
Sergey Sergeev
Ivan Sotnikov
Grigory Strelnikov
Anna Frants
Rebecca Horn
Sergey Chernov
Dmitry Shagin
Dmitry Shorin
Curated by Victoria Iluyshkina