О.Кошелец и С.Чернов
Птичкам–синичкам от Казимира Малевича. 2015
O.Koshelets & S.Chernov
To the birdies-titmouses from Kazimir Malevich. 2015
In the age of the Mass Media boom when culture, deeply immersed in the discourse of the industry of consumerism, inevitably sacrifices its sacred status, the search for a viable model of a symbiosis of high Art and art forms, which for the majority are simple and understandable, becomes especially important. The artist and his artwork abandon the hermetically-sealed space of museums and galleries and take to the streets, going into the parks and squares, expanding the boundaries of Art to the very limits of life itself. As a result, what happens is not only the erasing and blurring of the boundaries between the artificial and the natural worlds: often legitimate elements exchange places, substitute one another, confusing roles, mimicking and mutating so that in the end something like an oxymoron appears, something that cannot be, but somehow exists. The total transformation of taste, when only the finished Art product is endowed with true value, has made us forget that the element of play in the artistic act is more important than its result.
This project aspires to be one of the forms of post-industrial contemporary-shamanism. It is an attempt to unite the ununitable, the past and the present, the living and the non-living, nature and artificial matter.
The whole project consists of three acting forces:
1. The artists are the main communicators who whenever necessary perform various roles and functions dictated by the scenario, which develops freely and sporadically, constantly taking new elements into its composition.
2. K. Malevich is a figure not so much of a mythological but of a metaphoric type, taken as the most striking symbol that represents the Russian Avant-Garde and is genetically related to contemporary Russian art, to its fate. It is no accident that the main locations of the actions and performances are Nemchinovka and Kuntsevo – places of power, where the Master, the genius of this place, once lived and still dwells.
3. Birds, following the idea that life should be equal to Art, are the fully-fledged co-creators, mediums of the elemental forces of nature. As an anonymous character creates a simple text, using whatever is at hand, the birds consistently destroy it. However, the message does not disappear completely and forever, it reappears once more in the form of a unique palimpsest of what the birds wanted to say and what they ultimately managed to say.
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