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Moscow, 125040
Sergey Shekhovtsov
Moscow Land
13 december — 31 january
Sergey Shekhovtsov
Moscow Land
13 december — 31 january
Sergey Shekhovtsov's new exhibition "Moscow Land"
On the 13th of November 2019, JART Gallery opened Sergey Shekhovtsov's new exhibition "Moscow Land", in which objects conveying the established myths about the capital were presented.
The project "Moscow Land" is both an imitation and a criticism of the high life, a longing for it and a jibe at its superficiality. The punchy attractive colours of the works, as if borrowed from city advertising, are both eye-catching and in their sham repellent. For the first time in a long time Sergey Shekhovtsov will display a wall sculpture – new pieces made from polyurethane. They contain motley images of mass consumption, simple and familiar household materials and objects.
The artist, along with the curator Ilmira Bolotyan, will open a bar in JART Gallery, which will become a focal point of Moscow stories: a permanent construction-site that should turn the city into paradise; political games; football victories and defeats; night taxi-rides and neon lights, which pursue one even when trying to flee this city.
The artist, along with the curator Ilmira Bolotyan, will open a bar in JART Gallery, which will become a focal point of Moscow stories: a permanent construction-site that should turn the city into paradise; political games; football victories and defeats; night taxi-rides and neon lights, which pursue one even when trying to flee this city.
Sergey Shekhovtsov is still trying to answer the key question in his art: "If the pathos of old sculpture is now questioned, then which mode (way of being) accords with contemporaneity?" Once again, sentimentality goes hand in hand with satire, and enthusiasm and sublimity are halted by the haughtiness and arrogance of the Big City. The porosity of his favourite material does not make the images intimate and accessible.
The exhibition "Moscow Land" is a montage of its citizens' views and a mixture of various subjects. Our eye catches the head of an angel, the logo of a large bank, a neon sign beaded with pigeons, in which only one letter "M" is alight. In Shekhovtsov's city everything is under control, everyone is under surveillance. Portraits of people are hidden away in metal cans. Sergey Shekhovtsov, perhaps, is one of the few artists capable of empathising with ordinary people – both the old inhabitants and "recent arrivals" – and of understanding their aspirations.
The exhibition "Moscow Land" is a montage of its citizens' views and a mixture of various subjects. Our eye catches the head of an angel, the logo of a large bank, a neon sign beaded with pigeons, in which only one letter "M" is alight. In Shekhovtsov's city everything is under control, everyone is under surveillance. Portraits of people are hidden away in metal cans. Sergey Shekhovtsov, perhaps, is one of the few artists capable of empathising with ordinary people – both the old inhabitants and "recent arrivals" – and of understanding their aspirations.
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