    | | | 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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February 1-12, 2011. PARAZIT Creative Association. |
"DOOMSDAY" from "PARAZIT" Association
Painting /graphics/objects
In the gallery halls
Official opening on Wednesday Feb 2 17:00 |  | |  | |  | | | | | | | "PARAZIT" Creative Association:
Yuri Nikiforov, Vladimir Kozin, Dmitry Petukhov,
Semyon Motolyanets, Igor Panin, Igor Lebedev, “Mylo” (Soap) group,
Ivan Tuzov, Alexander Shishkin-Khokusai, Maxim Stepanov,
Ilya Zelenetsky, Vladimir Lilo, Julia Sopina, Tatiana Krylova "Sources of Artificial Light" The exhibition is devoted to all electricians of the world, working for people’s benefit, lighting up houses and cellars. To electricians, who attend modern art shows, and to electricians, who don’t visit such events. All in all, the exhibition is devoted to those who are never invited to private views. To those, who regularly get electrical shock, and it is their work. Also the exhibition is devoted to all those living under artificial light.
And artists will bring their own light. However great or poor their talent might be. After all, an artist as a light conductor is constantly struck by other currents. PARAZIT, heated up in 60 watt light of Borey corridor, having used electricity for which the gallery pays, will present to Borey’s 20th anniversary its illumination tools for orientation in the darkness of miscommunication in sign of respect and sincere gratitude. For us a light-box is a lamp, either a reading lamp or a spot lamp, with which you read a book, or a living-room chandelier, or a 15-watt lamp, lighting food in a refrigerator. Source of artificial light is a symbol of human victory over sun movement. And “Doomsday” is rather a photophobia of modern art community. Most of modern art shows are carried out in darkness, that’s kind of tradition. Maybe it’s because artists feel ashamed, maybe because spectators are embarrassed. Saving darkness creates intimate space for the spectator and hides sneers and grimaces of misunderstanding. No electrician will ever say: “To see the LIGHT one must know electrical circuit connection laws and supply pressure”. We step into the light to state that “Snobbish Light of the Devoted to Modern Art Understanding” has given disappointment, and thus it’s finished. Semyon Motolyanets, 2011 |
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January 25 – February 5, 2011. Nikolay Kopeykin. Painting. |
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January 11 - 22, 2011. Sofia Azarkhi. Objects. |
"HERMETIC STUDY"
Objects
In gallery halls |  | |  | |  | | | | | | | Sofia Azarkhi is an artist, graduate of Leningrad State Higher Arts and Crafts College named after Mukhina, member of Russian Artists Union, member of Russian Designers Union.
There are a great number of solo shows, dozens of collective exhibitions behind Sofia’s back. She is an author of 10 theatre works.
In 1998 she was granted a diploma of Manezh central exhibition hall for the best work of the year.
In 2003 she became a winner in Modern Art Biennale held by Turku Museum of Modern Art (Finland).
Her works are in collections of State Museum of St Petersburg History, St Petersburg Toy Museum, State Museum of Communications named after A.Popov, ABOA VETUS & ARS NOVA Museum (Finland), in A.Frans’s collection (New York), in State Theatre Library collection of sketches and manuscripts. "Sometimes an artist needs to escape from reality and search for the truth far from it. Traditional fields for truth search are alchemy and occultism. It’s a wrong though that (as we were taught at school) alchemy is a pseudoscientific way of turning mercury into gold. In fact alchemy is a European spiritual experience, comparable to Eastern spiritual practices. The “Hermetic Study” project is an attempt to restore stages of the Great Work, which aim is a search for magisterium or the philosophers’ stone or absolute spirit, by means of modern art. The result of the “Hermetic Study” project turned out to be like those of all alchemists, Rosicrucians and occultist: the absolute wasn’t found. Probably it doesn’t exist. But in modern art, just like in alchemy, it’s the process which is important, not the result. The process, which included three classical stages of the Great Work, namely nigredo, carbonization or deconstruction of material, albedo, whitewashing or mantling and assembling, and rubedo, reddening, gilding, vivification or final make up, finished when a number of objects were found, which symbolize several occult, esoteric notions.
Materials: vinyl, leather, gold and black paint, baby dolls and their fragments, bow-instruments and their fragments, saucepan tops. Each material is symbolic: vinyl, leather are prima materials, saucepan tops bear a link to the process of alchemy heating, dolls are homuncles, whom alchemists tried to grow in tubes, musical instruments mean the harmony of universe, the mystery of which alchemists highly valued".
The project started in 2008, finished in 2009. |
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