    | | | 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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November 10 -14, 2009. Sergey Stakanov. Posters. |
«AFTERLIFE SHOPPING»
Posters
In the small hall |  | |  | | | | | Actually, the world of advertising is unearthly. A prosperous citizen can try to repeat the virtuality of a glam heaven in his personal continuum, but all in vain. The attributes of success and prosperity can be easily neutralized by a lack of personal freedom and mental discomfort. Each new advertising message forces into a new loop of the consumer labyrinth, where a hypermarket visitor is a Theseus and a Minotaur himself. The everlasting dissatisfaction, like the unreachable line of the horizon, attracts a soul to a cart with purchases: from one shop window to another, from one cash-desk to another, and every check here is like an indulgence. But what is awaiting the customer at the entrance, what is he going to consume after death? A hypermarket works 24 hours, but this does not mean for ever. An SMS from the land of the dead is an advertisement from the other world!
Posters from “SMS From the Land Of the Dead” series are pictures of apocalyptic shopping. Death, the salesman, catches the consumer unawares.Iit is necessary to associatively adapt the goods from the other world to the already disappeared worldly needs. And the static consciousness of a shopaholic perceives this new disintegrated reality in the familiar setting of his all-selling god, a marketing illusionist.
Sergey Stakanov
Was born in Perm in 1970.
His first personal show “Advance” was held in 1991 in “Khudozhestvenny” cinema. In the middle of the 1990s Stakanov cooperated with PO SHR (Primorsk affiliate of the Russian Artists Union): he was director of the “Artist’s House” gallery attached to the artistic fund, showed his works at collective exhibitions of PO SHR members. Later he founded a group of young artists called “The Torch” (Fakel), which arranged a number of conceptual artistic events. Stakanov’s project «V. R.» evoked a wide response in the federal mass-media. Within this project a dozen of personal shows took place; they were devoted to “Russian Vera”, a heroic character serving kind of an answer to the superheroes of American comics.
In 2005 Sergey Stakanov became a nominee of the «Fame”, the Russian newspaper Izvestiya award, nomination “Representatives of art and culture in the Perm region”.
Sergey Stakanov is a constant participant of “Art Perm” international show, where in different years he presented his conceptual series “Diaries Of The Sacred Assembling”, “Length Of A Corridor”, “Life Of Prominent Spies”, etc.
Sergey Stakanov presented his artistic project «V.R.» - «Russian Vera» - in the State Centre of Modern Art (Moscow) within the big all Russian program «9000 km». In 2007 «V.R.» project was also exhibited in the capital of Russia at the “New Angelarius” show, and “Russian Vera”, the character created by Sergey Stakanov, was included into its catalogue, together with Ilya Kabakov’s and Zurab Tsereteli’s works.
In 2007-2008 Sergey Stakanov initiated and participated in a travelling exhibition of satirical posters “Way of Bribe: Evolution Not According to Darwin”.
In 2009 Sergey Stakanov is a participant of the “Living Perm” festival, where he is presenting his new project “Art ToTable”.
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November 3 - 7, 2009. Dedicated to the 92nd anniversary of Red October. |
Borey Art Gallery and KRASNY MATROS present:
Dedicated to the 92nd anniversary of Red October
"UPON MY WORD OF HONOUR AND SWEARING BY RED STAR,
DECEIVING LENIN OR STALIN WILL NEVER DO SO FAR!"
Figures of the Soviet leaders in folk art
In the small hall |  | |  | |  | | | | | | | HOW LENIN PUNISHED A PEASANTS WRONGDOER
A Vladimirskaya fairytale
Written down by L.Ilyinsky in Vladimirskaya province apparently at the end of 1925 or in the beginning of 1926.
Lenin had a helpmate, the closest one, who was an allotment commissar. And once they told Lenin, that that very friend of his did injustice to peasants and lived unjustly, not saving the national wealth.
Lenin called him and said:
- Is it true, my dear friend?
The one kept silent with his head down.
And Lenin told him:
- You have no right to oppress the peasant. Because the peasant is a great national power, and he produces bread. So, as you are my friend, I must give you exemplary punishment.
At that moment Lenin kissed his friend, said goodbye to him, turned away, and ordered to shoot him.
There you have him, Lenin... He loved justice.
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October 13 – 31, 2009. Boris Smelov. Graphics. |
"GRAPHICS"
In the small hall |  | |  | |  | | | | | | | Trying to make the exhibition as interesting as possible, as it will surely be one of the most prominent events in St Petersburg’s cultural life this fall, the Borei gallery alongside with the photos also shows Boris Smelov’s graphics, known by the few. Probably this will provide the broadest view on the Artist the public can get, if it is interested in the ways leading to the world of perfection.
"Boris could draw very well, though he never specially learnt how to draw. He often made paper sketches of his future photos, both still lives and cityscapes. One still life he even painted in oil. At the same time, even some of his close friends did not know that Boris drew, and he hardly showed his drawings to anyone, being afraid to share ideas of his photos to come. He did not show even photos for no particular reason, hobnob, when there were no “dealings”, as if he feared that idle observation will “steal” something from his works. Most likely, this was an evidence of the natural reticence of a man, born under Pieces sign, on the thirteenth of March".
Taken from Nal Podolsky’s article, published in the book “Non-Decedents Of St Pete City”
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