ART CITIES:Moscow-Unofficial Language
Moscow International Biennale for Young Art is a large-scale project realized on the Moscow art scene. The Biennale brings together artistic initiatives from all over the world. Leading art centers of Moscow in collaboration with regional and international partners take part in the Biennale’s preparation and realization. The Biennale focuses on a young generation of artists and curators aged up to 35 years.
By Efi Michalarou
Photo: Triumph Gallery Archive
The experimental project “Unofficial Language”, brings together the studies of artists’ life in the city, the exhibition is a collaboration of the Department of Research Arts (established by Triumph Gallery in 2013) and Winzavod Centre for Contemporary Art, as part of the parallel program of the 5th Moscow International Biennale For Young Art. “Unofficial Language” presents 34 Moscow-based artists with diverse backgrounds and professional experience who work in different media and with various topics. The exhibition is an attempt to construct a broad image of this generation in its relation to artists’ individual experience of living in the urban environment of Moscow. The first part of the exhibition consists of the materials and data collected using the methods of social sciences. Each artist outlines his or her everyday route in Moscow, the image of the city and also marked emotionally various parts on the map of Moscow. The analysis is based upon the methods of mental mapping that give an opportunity to see the city via the eyes of an artist. The works the second part of the exhibition have been chosen by the artist and represent their work in the best way possible and thus there is no usual curatorial selection. The series of video interviews which are part of the exhibition provide a perspective for visitors to understand the main issues that artists are concerned with, their relation towards art, the city and peculiarities of the visual language of their generation.
Info: Curators: Kristina Romanova, Sofia Simakova and Nail, Winzavod Centre For Contemporary Art, White Hall, Entrance 14, first Floor, 4th Syromyatnicheskiy Lane, 1, BDL. , Moscow, Duration: 29/6-31/7/16, www.winzavod.ru & www.triumph-gallery.ru
