"Два часа в резервуаре" or art misunderstanding

It was a virnissage of a new exhibition in Museum of Modern Art Moscow which would extend from 25.11.2011 to 2.09.2012. The exhibition calls “ИСКУССТВОестьИСКУССТВОестьИСКУССТВО”

(ARTexistARTexistART) you can go and see in MMoMA (ул. Петровка, 25).

Well, for me it’s always rather difficult to talk about art, because it something you should feel and feelings is the really difficult thing to explain. This exhibition contains works from early avant-garde to contemporary art. The wide period of presented works helped because I’m rather skeptical about modern art at the last time. The interesting thing I’ve noticed that works mostly are hang up quite well, I mean the composition and combinations of close to each other pictures. And one more interesting thing, one part of exhibition happens in the dark. They made some kind of tunnel with pictures on walls and some video installations but there are no light, you can see only light flashes sometimes. Moreover, in this tunnel flour and walls are soft, (unlucky people on heels), it’s quite difficult by the way to go there in the dark when flour is not stable. In case there were dark people used their cell-phones to see the pictures. The process looks funny by all appearance and I did not really understand their concept but at least it was unusual.

Generally, were a lot of good, inspirational, well made pieces of art, and I’ve finished the review with feeling of satisfaction.

I'll show you some pictures to intrigue or put off going to contemporary art museums.:)

Ivan Chuikov (1935)

Window LX IY

Oil on wood, fibreboard

Michael Kurilko

Death image over bed of dying knight

1913

 Looking on this I'm starting to thing that artists spended more time on art in 20 century. It's so detalized, I see the perfect, eye-filling hard work when look at it. Why works of modern artist reminds me more something that was made in last 20 minutes. That's obviously very personal, but I have this feeling so often.

I mean, yes may be it is some really deep concept in this 2 photos which is not clear for me, but it does't look so assiduously made. It makes you feel something but not the respect for a hard working.

Igor Tonkonogy

Breakout

Etching on paper

1989

Alexander Kosolapov

Blue caviar

Acrylic on paper

1991

The Chapel by Olga Treivas

Vladimir Arkhipov

Socks of Lubov Arkhipova. Kolomna.

From the museum of self – made everyday objects series.

1995

Unfortunatelly, I don't really understant that "grandma's socks on the wall art", the only think I like about that is colour combination. Still hope I would undersatand a "wham-bam art" one day.

Ivan Plusch and Irina Drozd

Illusion of fullness disappearance

2011

This installation reminded me Maarten Baas's installation with burned funniture "Smoke". It's always interresting to see how design, furniture (objects) have something in common with art.

The final dot of the exibition was stolen Picasso's work. The wall with no pictures on it, with a nail and a small tablet- Pablo Picasso, painter at work. I didn't really undersatnd if it was a piece of art, a mistake or a thift scene but that was nice. Nice big embarrassing dot.