«VIDEOPOEMS»
Video art / painting / sculpture
In the small hall

Vasilisa Savrasova was born in St Petersburg in 1993. She studied in “Alexandrino” children’s art school. In 2004 she published a book, “Birgamot” fairy tale (200 copies), the author’s text and pictures. From 2005 she was a student of St Petersburg State Academic Art Lyceum named after Johansson. In January 2010 she participated in “Petersburg-2009”  annual exhibition (at Manezh central exhibition hall), and in June 2010 in the “21st Festival of Modern Art” show (at Pushkinskaya 10 art centre). She’s been practicing video art from 2007.

Vasilisa Savrasova:
«Video is painting in development. Live pictures, transforming one into another. It’s a fusion of visual and sound images, ranging with each other in time and allowing you to feel absence of time. Sculpture, painting, graphics, layouts, reality fragments, light, water, textures, they all become one single whole, joined with video for idea realization.
In fact, my dream is to unite it all without video shooting. To come close to interaction between sound and objects in reality.
For the sound to have shape, to pour into light, into water, into dark-green grass covered with dew drops, to flow like water. Space is filled with density of radiant light, with red water, flowing like a voice, with a shower of huge silver drops. There are transparent green leaves floating in thick white and yellow light. There are faces in clots of light, a red window. It’s transparent. It’s an image of eternity, a feeling which is bigger than joy and happiness. It’s liberation. Thick light crystallizes when it touches a face, you see, you feel love in a light-blue river, which flows inside the tree, beneath its rough and dewy bark. The red rain has stopped. There is light among the trees on fire. Wonders which cannot be expressed. They are enormous, infinite, immense. And colors exist by themselves, alive and signing. And it all is one single whole, which is inseparable. And video, painting, sculpture are attempts to express it all.
I think that art is a form of prayer, and sincerity is sparkling heavenly inspiration, inherent to prayer and genuine creative work.
A need to make an exhibition appeared as a result of desire to free my works from living inside me and to let them go to start new work”.

«COMPULSORY LANDSCAPE»
Collective show
Painting / graphics
In gallery halls
Curator: Lyubov Gurevitch

Maria Tregubenko

Viktor Kuprianov

Elena Shelchkova

L.Gurevitch:
«The show presents works made within the “Compulsory Landscape” project. Twenty-six artists were suggested painting one and the same view opening from the balcony of a flat near Chyornaya Rechka.

Artists, presenting main trends of today’s St Petersburg painting art participated in the show: the ones who kept leftist LOSH’s artistic way of thinking, representatives of former underground and a new generation, influenced by the former and the latter. A publication accompanying the exhibition describes main features of these trends. Besides, the text gives detailed verbal description of the opening view and descriptions of twenty of the works created. An observer gets a chance to understand how different artists transform one and the same nature. We analyzed how an artist copes with an unconventional compositional challenge and which of his qualities, inclinations he reveals. This experience provided us with an opportunity to reflect on what a landscape is for the moment, which function it performs, what is an artist’s major attitude towards nature».

Show participants:
Svetlana Badelina, Alexander Bikhter, Alexander Borkov, Boris Borsch, Irina Vasilyeva, Anatoly Zaslavsky, Aron Zinstein, Galina Korostik, Viktor Kupriyanov, Julia Litsbakh, Alexander Lotsman, Anatoly Maslov, Alexey Mitin, Ilya Orlov, Vladimir Parshikov, Alexander Rumyantsev, Alexey Semitchev, Julia Sopina, Ivan Sotnikov, Maria Tregubenko, Tatiana Tulicheva, Svetlana Tsverkunova, Oleg Tchernov, Igor Tchurilov, Vladimir Shinkarev, Elena Schelchkova.