20- 22.10. 2011

The conference is held within the scope of the festival “Street as a Museum – Museum as a Street”. The peculiar feature of the festival consists in a simultaneous display of contemporary art pieces on public bus stops and exhibition halls in Ulyanovsk.

20.10.11

14:00 – 17:00 – presentation of the project “Museum as a Street – Street as a Museum”: display on public bus stops in Ulyanovsk, in Regional state budget institution of culture “Ulyanovsk Regional Scientific Library named after V.I. Lenin”, in the Museum of Contemporary Visual Arts named after A.A.Plastov,

21.10.11

Conference “Personal Utterance in Public”

Regional state budget institution of culture “Ulyanovsk Regional Scientific Library named after V.I. Lenin”, conference hall “Karamzin”,

10:00 -  13:00

14: 00 – 17:00

Conference topics:

Publicity and Privacy

Authorship and Anonymity

The Artist’s Choice Within the Context of Total Advertising

Does “Continuous” Cultural Space Really Exist?

Moderator – Nelya Korzhova,

Artist, art director of  Samara regional public charitable fund “Center for Contemporary Art”, curator of the project “Street as a Museum – Museum as a Street”

10:00-13:00

Participants

• Anna Gor, director of Samara regional charitable fund “Centre for Contemporary Art” /Nizhniy Novgorod/, “Why does Russian Public Space Need Modern Art?”
• Gerard Cogniaux, expert in the Russian language and literature, interpreter of the Russian avant-garde theorists, researcher of constructivism architecture and creative work aesthetics of stage director – Sergey Ezenshtein, professor of the Russian literature at Nancy University /France/, “Art Versus the Masses”
• Christian Feigelson, professor of University of Paris III – Sorbonne Nouvelle/France/, “Sociology of Exhibition Space, Big Cities and Small Towns”
• Dmitriy Gutov, artist, art critic, editorial board member of “Artistic Magazine”/Moscow/, “Public Space: Financial Logics”
• Anna Romanova, art historian /Moscow/, “Non-monumental Propaganda”
• Nikolay Palazhchenko, curator, art critic, member of Modern Art Support Centre “Vinzavod” /Moscow/, “Creative Clusters – Spaces Changing the City”

14:00-17:00

• Kirill Lebedev, expert in street-art and graffiti, manager of “Stena” project “History of Street Art Development in CIS. Their Perspectives – Social Graffiti, Activism, Action Arts, “Graffiti of Names”, Post-graffiti””
• Vasiliy Rogozin, curator of “Subway” project, “Street-Art in Boundary Space”
• Andrey Rimar, PhD in Philology, Deputy of Science of Samara Literature-Memorial Museum named after Gorky. “Cultural Field Division and New Media”
• Janno Bergman, artist, /Estonia/, author’s presentation of the project “Picasso on the Moon”
• Vito Pace, artist /Italy/ author’s presentation of the project “Order in Arts”
• Maria Khramova, lecturer at Samara State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering, curator of “ARTPOLIS” festival. “The City of Art, Art of the City”
• Sergey Balandin, artist, senior researcher of Samara Literature-Memorial Museum named after Gorky/Samara/ project “Realism”

Participants of the discussion:

• Roman Korzhov, artist, chairman of Samara regional charitable fund “Centre for Contemporary Art” /Samara/
• Tatyana Aleksandrovna Ivshina, Governor Deputy of Ulyanovsk Region, Chief Executive of the project “Ulyanovsk as a Cultural Capital”
• Anna Karvaleyru, director of Department of the Ministry of Art and Culture of Ulyanovsk Region.
• Alexander Mikhailovich Kapitonov – chief architecture of Ulyanovsk
• Olga Tatosyan, curator of the program “Public Art” of Privolzhskiy branch of State Centre for Contemporary Art
• Konstantin Adzher, artist /Moscow/
• Vito Pace, artist /Italy/
• Konstantin Zatsepin, Deputy Director of Samara Regional Art Museum of Development, PhD in Philology
• Aleksey Prokaev, director of Centre for European Culture in Samara
• Mikhail Savchenko, deputy of the Ministry of Culture of Samara Region/Samara/
• Ilya Samorukov, art critic, PhD in Philology, lecturer at Samara State University
• Yulia Mironova, marketing specialist of “News Outdoor” company
• Anatoliy Nekrasov, artist, curator of Samara gallery “11 Rooms”
• Vadim Yanushkin, web master of the site ““Street as a Museum – Museum as a Street” /Samara/

Place of holding the exhibition:

Russia, 432017, Ulyanovsk, ul.Kommunisticheskaya 3

Regional state budget institution of culture “Ulyanovsk Regional Scientific Library named after V.I. Lenin”

Тел +7 8422 44 30 99

17:30 –18:00

Performance by Sergey Balandin “Now”, the embankment “Noviy Venets”

Konstantin Adzher  – performance

22.10.11

11:00

The opening of the memorial board “The Order of the Arts”, artist Vito Pace /Italy/ Ulyanovsk Regional Scientific Library named after V.I. Lenin

25 .09 – 30.11.2011

The opening of the festival “Street as a Museum – Museum as a Street”, dedicated to new techniques of interaction between contemporary art and an urban environment, will take place in the city of Ulyanovsk on September 25^th. Everyone will have a chance to get acquainted with the works of such modern artists as Vito Pace, Janno Bergman, Yuri Albert, Viktor Skersis on public bus stops.

“Picasso on the Moon” by Janno Bergman, an Estonian artist, is believed to be the key point of the exhibition. A man waiting for a bus can see a poster that resembles much of quite an unsusual newspaper article, in which an interview with Pablo Picasso is published. According to the article it turned out that Picasso is not only alive, but also keeps on creating pieces of art by developing new artistic methods. Today he creates his masterpieces on the Moon – you can even look at the photos.  Thus, standing on a bus stop and finding ourselves in the vacuum of pragmatic communication, we suddenly face a situation, when we receive some news about art that is alive and, what’s more, is in the process of exploring new territories. To tell the truth, all the project “Street as a Museum – Museum as a Street” consists into this idea.

The series of works by Yuri Albert is created in the tradition of classical conceptualism. The artist addresses a few challenging questions and statements to the viewer: “What is the meaning of the artist’s work?”, “Which piece of art do you want to see instead?”, “You know, there used to be art, but now there are only things resembling it…”. It is considered to be quite important that all these questions are asked in the context, in which such contemplations are never expected. Actually, a bus stop is a place for unconscious consumption of endless advertisements and reproduction of thoughts closely related to daily routine and everyday life. A person waiting for a bus, finally, wishes to cope with all his daily pursuits, whereas, he is asked to recollect his favorite piece of art and think how it can change a situation. Hence, the aim of the question “What is the meaning of the artist’s work?” is not concluded in finding a concrete answer to it, but in shifting the viewer, who has been put deep in thought, from one mode of life to another. The thing reflected in the last work of the series: “Art is created in order to make people think about it, not only simply enjoy it”.

The posters of Viktor Skersis involve the viewer into the space of postmodern play with contexts. The artist turns the world of rational modern city, created by the influence of Le Corbusier, a modernism classic, into “the world of Barbusier”. Who is Barbusier, actually? No one knows the answer. However, it is a brand pointing to emptiness – but other advertising brands have much in common, don’t they? Mythology involving such household good (as “Clopomor and Zmey Gorinich”), depreciate values and nostalgic feelings concerning “natural life” is the reality of a modern city, which is not criticized by the artist, but just on the contrary – the author offers to look at it with your eyes open, enjoying its contradictions.

Vito Pace is an artist of Italian origin, who lives in Germany. In his works he uses irony to find out, on which symbols of modern multicultural society patriotism can lean on. In his works we can trace a few traditional Italian themes related to Motherland  – a tattoo in the shape of the Italian Peninsula, the interior of a catholic church, a few memorial plates.

However, the inscriptions are tattooed in Albanian – migrants became the “patriots”. Instead of an inscription on a memorial plate yoy can see a “P.S.” sign that resembles much of a  D&G brand, the similarity of which is also proved by the candy wrapped in D&G branded flowers. Through the oval frame of the photo on a memorial plate we can contemplate the scene only, but what exactly this place is?  Probably, for an Italian it is associated with a concrete place in his native country, whereas for an citizen of Ulyanovsk there is nothing of Italian chatacter in the scene and, probably will identidy some of the rivers of Ulyanovsk in the photo. The citizen of Ulyanovsk, looking at he poster of the citizen of Germany, dedicated to Italy, reading the work in context, which was not considered by the artist, noticing the symbols marked by the artist but doesn’t understanf them – that’s where the reality of modern world lies. There is a way out of the situation for the art: thus, the poster is not becoming a piece of art, but a situation of a viewer dealing with something incomprehensible for him becomes the art.

STREET

25.09-30.11.2011

The exhibition of contemporary art works on public bus stops of the city of Ulyanovsk.

20 light boxes.

Artists: Vito Pace /Italy/, Janno Bergman /Estonia/, Yuri Albert /Russia/, Viktor Skersis /Russia/.

The exhibition works since September 25^th till October 30^th 2011. On November 1^st a change in exposition is expected.