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Almost There---Open Studio's First Collaborative Exhibit held at Bard
OPEN STUDIO PRESENTS
ALMOST THERE
14 DECEMBER 2007 BARD COLLEGE
The works in this show express the ever-evolving nature of our collective methods of communication. Though the artists who have been chosen to participate in this show all have very different approaches and processes in their art making all the works have a pseudo-transparency, encouraging the viewer to question the nature of communication and how active dialogue is sustained.
Virtual Filmmaking: Landscape and Memory, a course taught this semester as part of the Bard-Smolny Virtual Campus, helped to establish a creative dialogue between students at both colleges through video, and allowed students to collaborate intellectually and artistically. In an effort to match works from the Virtual Campus project with conceptually similar works we sought out artists whose work spoke to themes relating to established relationships, unknown territories, and ambiguous results within the context of communication. The show ultimately comes together as a celebration of the launch of a new website, Open Studio, which will act as a platform for exchange between Bard and Smolny artists.
Open Studio is a collaborative project between Bard and Smolny Colleges, made possible with a grant from the Mellon Foundation and Bard’s Institute for International Liberal Education. The intention is to link the artistic communities at either institution, giving participants the opportunity to enter into one another’s creative process. The project will take the form of a website (www.vcopenstudio.org) that will enable students to have an open dialogue surrounding their artistic practices and serve as a platform for information and resources for students.
Comic Art Gallery By Olga Jitlina
Комикс-культура в России, мягко говоря, не развита. Комикс ассоциируется исключительно с детьми и с американскими супергероями и считается чем-то второсортным, то ли недомультфильмом, то ли недокнигой. Впрочем, в Петербурге есть небольшая группа людей, которая твердо намерена убедить общественность в полноценности и художественной состоятельности жанра. В основном эти люди - художники-комиксмейкеры и пара человек, занимающихся организацией выставок комиксов и выпуском самиздатовских сборников.
Birthday By Hardie Duncan
Выставка Тимура Новикова в галерее «Д-137»
На днях, 25 октября в Петербурге в галерее «Д-137» прошло довольно знаковое событие в культурной жизни города - выставка Тимура Петровича Новикова, а также презентация посвященной ему книги.
Тимур Новиков – «флагман художественной революции», один из ярчайших героев на арене петербургского искусства. Он был создателем группы «Новые художники», а затем основателем самого заметного направления постсоветской художественной культуры России - неоакадемизма. Главной идеей неоакадемизма является возвращение к древним канонам классического искусства, стремление к Прекрасному, к идеальной форме. В 1993 году Новиков вместе со своими друзьями и учениками открывает в Петербурге Новую Академию изящых искусств.
read more...You’re on to something – best to let it cook
It has always been like that: the artist creates in darkness, yet the gallery can turn on the light. Hereupon the audience, like a butterfly, is attracted to the light. Why not turn the light on in the artist’s studio? Last month I found a book in the Smolny library: “Clement Greenberg. A Critic’s Collection” . I thought it would be the best collection of conceptual art I’ve ever seen, the apogee of criticism...“You’re on to something – best to let it cook”
Yana Klichuk on Clement Greenberg's "A Critic's Collection", 1967
Dacha project by Konstantin Lukjanov
(click here to read the statement in Russian) This project was conceived in Saint-Petersburg and realized in the area of town Torzhok (Russia).
