    | | | Created for the support of Petersburg artists (both participation in the exhibitions and entrance are free), in the course of time the Gallery became a rather prestigious spot for organization of exhibitions both of domestic and foreign artists. We believe that in the situation when there are few exhibition spaces in the city and a great scale of creative ideas, aesthetic concepts and artistic practices, the main actual task is to present as many artists as possible independent on genre and technology. Exhibitions in the Borey Gallery are in the non-stop regime. It is a basic principle of the Gallery to support beginning artists and creators (the first exhibition, the first book, the first article). Absence of aesthetic snobbery and restraints in the interests of a special group of artists. Accessibility and openness.
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29 December- 2 January 2010. Anna Frants. Installations. |
«VISIONARY DREAMS #3245-3352»
video & audio-installations
In the halls of the gallery | Anna Frants is a New York based video and net artist. Usually internet serves as network that hosts many individual, fully encapsulated, unconnected artistic efforts. These artistic islands, despite occasionally referencing each other, do not form an internet-aesthetic whole. Nor has internet yet been used as means to build works of art requiring high degree of artistic collaboration, not possible in the physical world. Anna Frants is known to work on the projects that would bring different artists together embracing the greatest communication medium that ever existed — the Internet.
Her accomplishments reflect the broad range of interests she has. She has been awarded the top prize for the best 3D computer animation at the prestigious computer graphics competitions such as Autodesk Planet Studio Award. She has participated in and curated numerous art exhibitions in United States and Russia, for number of years have been teaching media studies and animation and also published articles on art. Works can be found in KyoseinoSato Contemporary Art Museum (Japan) and in private collections.
Connecting life as an artist in Russia and in America, Frant's video is set in a frozen, harsh and unforgiving setting where occupants are filmed amidst routine of working hard to find and claim their daily bread. Among the crowd, one bird has notably different movements and it becomes clear he/she is sick or injured. Set to Beethoven's Sonata, the impeded pigeon is the weakest in the bunch but nonetheless uniquely different, and thus rises as the star. | | |
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Arctic Circle-New York
2009
This audio-video installation combines sights and sounds of the “Wild North” with the newest technologies. It consists of five old tin cans and a big screen. The viewer handles the cans, and each of them triggers a video on the screen, made at the North Pole and set on the songs of the indigenous people – droning, yet very rhythmical. Judging by the video context, the artist wants to remain a neutral observer. Thus, the viewer gets a portion of control and some food (or fodder) for reflection – on the future of the North Pole and the relationship between an artist and a viewer in contemporary art. | | | | |  | | Jumping Jacks by Anna Frants
From the Series “Made in Ancient Greece”
New York
2009
We are used to seeing the depiction of running or jumping athletes on the Greek vases. Five ancient amphorae in this installation have the same subject, except that, instead of the familiar red or black figures, we see on them videos based on Muybridge’s photographs “Human Figures in Motion” taken only about a century ago. This work of the 21st century could be called “post-post-modern” in that it proves that everything old (or very-very old) is new again. | | | | | | | | |  | | ∞ by Anna Frants
New York
2009 This installation is utterly simple: some life-size figure is molding… something. The viewers will discover neither the identity of the creator nor the result of his creation, which should remind them that just a few centuries ago artists did not sign their works and that sometimes it took not one but several generations of Chinese masters to finish one objet d’art. The viewers of this installation, however, will have an opportunity to contemplate the creative process that is as mysterious as it is infinite. |
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December 22-26, 2009. Charity Festival. |
"NOT ONLY KIDS"
Photography
In the gallery halls |  | |  | | | | | We invite you to the show of well-known Russian photographers Not Only Kids , which will take place as part of the 5th City Charity Festival Kind-hearted Piter .
When a person becomes 18 years old, he comes out of the action field of specialized children s funds and cannot get any help up to old age. Grown-ups who get into trouble become castaways. Everybody helps kids and old people just because they are kids and old people. They would rather help kids, as there s perspective in it. They repay to old people. And a grown-up is often considered to be the only one to blame in his misfortunes, or, at least, the one to blame that he cannot help himself.
Very often grown-ups turn to our children s funds for help , says Katya Bermant, director of Altogether and Children s Hearts fund. But we have to refuse them because of the regulations of our organizations. Time has come to found a specialized relief fund for grown-ups .. How old should a person in trouble be for everyone around to turn away from him? According to my fund's regulations he should be 18. Others give 16. Not so long ago I received a mailing which offered help for children under 14.
But should charity be limited by any timeframes? From and till? An adult is the same as a kid on the photo, he just grew up. And has been taken ill. He is helpless in the face of his catastrophe with many zeros JUST LIKE a kid. But a little dark-eyed sweetie has a chance, and a grown-up doesn t.
We want to draw everybody s attention to the problem which might get actual for every member of society. And change the situation. For now at least in some specific cases.
Photoshow "Not Only Kids"
Well-known photographers, to whom belong St Petersburg citizens Sergey Maksimishin, Tatiana Plotnikova, and Ekaterina Bogachevskaya, Moscow residents Alexander Sorin, Alexander Kuznetsov, Oleg Nikishin, Oleg Klimov, Alexander Tyagny-Ryadno, Alexander Gronsky, Vladimir Vyatkin and others, present photo portraits of grown-up people. There s one thing which joins all these works: all grown-ups hold in hands their photos as kids. Among the heroes of this photo project are adults from different Russian cities, who some day came across or are now fighting against devastating diseases. They are Natalia Voronitsyna, a photographer (multiple sclerosis), Roman Kolpakov (cervical spine fracture), Svetlana Surganova (cured cancer), Elena Kravchenko (a rare form of rheumatoid arthritis), Alyona Mikhalyova (back injury), Andrey Nebolsin (unsuccessful operation on the spinal cord), St Petersburg citizen Olga Egorova (congenital heart disorder) and other people, for whose treatment visitors of the show can subscribe.
It s a unique event: for the first time in the history of Russian charity a specialized relief fund for grown-ups was founded. For the first time so many famous photographers participate in a charity photo project.
The charity gathering Altogether , which united more than 25 small private funds and voluntary organizations, carried out the first in the history of Russian charity project, which is a relief fund for grown-ups called Alive ( Zhivoy ).
The show evoked a wide response in Moscow (November, 2009, Centre of Modern Art Vinzavod ). In St Petersburg the photo show has been arranged with the assistance of the Charity Festival Kind-hearted Piter and the charity fund AdVita . After it has been exhibited in Borey, it will move to Novosibirsk and Krasnoyarsk. When in spring the show returns to Moscow, we hope that the texts under the photos will change. It will be written there who has already received a necessary treatment, who has been operated on, and who has been completely cured. |
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December 15 - 26, 2009. Anna Florenskaya. Painting. |
Painting
In the small hall |  | |  | |  | | | | | | | Anna Gennadyevna Florenskaya was born to a family of painters in Leningrad in 1974. My parents Gennady Nikeev and Natalia Florenskaya are painters, my brother Sasha and his wife Olya are painters, too. Almost all of my parents friends are painters, and those who are not are very nice people anyway .
Anna went to art school on the Fontanka and studied in Elena Kosenkova s class, to whom she is very grateful for her openness to the world and getting to know some people, which still have not disappeared from Anna s life..
Anna left school after the 8th grade and started to water flowers in the conservatory of the Taurida garden. Then she swept the stage of the Leninsky Komsomol Theatre with a broom. But it all annoyed her very soon. She lived in Moscow and tried to learn how to restore icons in a studio on Ostozhenka street, but never learnt. I ve got a husband, Alexander Petrovich Voytsekhovsky, and he is also a painter. I always could see a whole life in his pictures, and not only what is simply depicted on them. We have got kids, they have already grown up. I finished secondary evening school three years ago, only because I suddenly wanted to enter a theatre institute. Of course, I failed to enter, but it was so nice there. A feeling of immense joy is left. Most of all I like to sew dolls and animals, and I see my future in them. I spend much time in the countryside. All in all, I think that my life is a success . |
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