Akklimаtizatsia
'Akklimаtizatsia'
Open Studio's first exhibit in
St Petersburg
Akklimаtizatsia--curated by Emily Newman and Olga Jitlina, and marking the beginning an ongoing collaboration between the Comics Gallery and closely situated Smolny College--pairs works made by artists steeped in the phenomenological realities of two distant cities—St Petersburg and Los Angeles. Both cities stand as experimental extremes, outposts on the western perimeters of sprawling Nations. While St Petersburg’s center was built for horse-carriages, it’s outer districts were laid with motorways so wide they seem to have anticipated the car-crazy California individualism of the Post Soviet generation--the result is a smog so dense that, in both cities, it hangs in the air like an object. This, among other connections drawn, tentatively link the cities by their inverse but similarly otherworldly landscapes and climates. The show opens on the third of May at the C.A.G. Gallery, 33 Galernaya Ulitsa, St Petersburg and is up until the 17th.
Participating artists include: Alina Belishkina, Stas Bags, Maria Domogatskaya, Victoria Fu, Hadley Holliday, Alice Konitz, Gian Martin Joller, Julie Orser, John Pearson, Evgenia Mukhina, Jed Lind, Michael Queenland, Masha Sha, Jen Schwarting, Adam Schwartz, Konstantin Ushakov, Irina Valkova, Jan Vormann and Bari Zipperstein and Igor Vasiliev.
'Акклиматизация'
Эмили Ньюман и Ольга Житлина, кураторы выставки «Акклимитизация», с которой начинается сотрудничество между галереей Comics и находящимся по соседству Смольным Институтом Свободных Наук и Искусств, поместили рядом работы художников из Санкт-Петербурга и Лос-Анджелеса - двух мегаполисов, стоящих на страже западных границ своих необъятных стран. Смог висит в воздухе Петербурга и Лос-Анджелеса, как топор, хотя оба города были специально созданы для райской жизни в прежде необитаемых, потусторонних пустошах – на сырых камнях и в раскаленной пустыне. Эта искусственность и пугает, и манит безлюдными зданиями, нечеловеческими пропорциями, выплескивающимся на поверхность подпольем. «Лед и пламень» - два города - притягивающие друг друга.
left: Jan Vormann
Clockwise from top left: John Pearson, Hadley Holliday and Gian-Martin Joller, Olga Jitlina, Installation shot, Alice Konitz, Adam Schwartz and Hadley Holliday
see a local review of the show here
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From left to right, top row: Jen Schwarting and Alina Belishkina, Igor Vasiliev, Emily Newman and Gian-Martin Joller. Second row: Jan Vormann, installation shot, Emily Newman. Third row: Evgenia Mukhina, Gian-Martin Joller, Bari Zipperstein. Fourth row: Irina Valkova and Bari Zipperstein, Masha Sha, Julie Orser. Fifth row: Stas Bags, Jan Vormann, Irina Valkova. |
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