Тhe Brotherhood of New Blockheads (1996-2002)

The exhibition devoted to Saint Petersburg's Brotherhood of New Blockheads (1996-2002) and its accompanying publication represent an event of considerable significance not only for our Museum of Modern Art and for Moscow's cultural landscape, but for any contemporary history of Russian art. This group of young artists - Sergey Spirikhin, Vladimir Kozin, Igor Panin, Vadim Flyagin and others  first emerged twenty years ago in Borey Gallery (which enjoyed cult status) and existed for just a few years around the turn of the centuries. Yet in that short time the group made its mark with its incredible energy and creative productivity: more than seventy actions and performances in all.Inspired in equal measure by the absurdist poetics of the Oberiu and the chaotic romantic rhythm of the 1990s, they proposed a model of artistic behaviour that was capable of reflecting with incredible accuracy the turbulent spirit of a specific place and a specific time, a behaviour defi

Автор	Peter Belyi, Lizaveta Matveeva, Victor Misiano
Год выпуска	2016
Издатель	Московский музей современного искусства
ISBN	978-5-91611-077-7
Цена	869 руб.