KANTUTA QUIROS & ALIOCHA IMHOff - Overlapping Biennial
KANTUTA QUIROS & ALIOCHA IMHOff - Overlapping Biennial
KANTUTA QUIROS & ALIOCHA IMHOff - Overlapping Biennial
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THE BLUE NOSES GROUP<br />
În seria „An Epoch of Clemency”, grupul Blue<br />
Noses (Viachelsav Mizin & Alexander Shaburov)<br />
aduce împreună în mod provocator două mecanisme<br />
puternic reglementate şi la fel de puternic<br />
înzestrate simbolic în conştiinţa rusească:<br />
corpul politic şi corpul pasional. Când cele două<br />
se îmbrăţişează transgresând scandalos morala<br />
austeră tradiţională, efectul este exploziv. Atacul<br />
era îndreptat spre modelele masculinităţii virile<br />
(ofiţerul, fotbalistul, marinarul), iar prin umor se<br />
dezamorsa registrul conservator şi reglementat al<br />
imaginarului şi conduitei instituţionale. Înscenări<br />
fotografice meticuloase, exemplare pentru noul realism<br />
rusesc contemporan, imaginile exploatează<br />
vizualitatea oriental-exotică şi edulcorată a ethosului<br />
sovietic, fără a uita să o racordeze la un tip de<br />
imagerie populară de consum.<br />
Mica Gherghescu<br />
In their series “An Epoch of Clemency”, the<br />
Blue Noses Group (Viacheslav Mizin & Alexander<br />
Shaburov) brings together in a provocative<br />
manner two highly regulated and symbolic<br />
mechanisms of the Russian conscience: the<br />
politic body and the passionate body. When the<br />
two reunite and scandalously transgress the<br />
prude traditional morale, the effect tends to<br />
be explosive. The attack was directed towards<br />
models of virile masculinity (the officer, the<br />
football player or the sailor), and through<br />
humorous touch they defused the conservatory,<br />
normative institutional imaginary and behavior.<br />
Photographically precise staging, exemplary<br />
for the new Russian contemporary realism, the<br />
images exploit the oriental-exotic, delicate and<br />
sweet visual register of the Soviet ethos, without<br />
forgetting to link it to the popular consumers’<br />
imagery.<br />
Mica Gherghescu<br />
“Kissing Policemen” from the “Era of Clemency” series (2009)<br />
C-type print, 100 x 75 cm,<br />
courtesy of M&J Guelman Gallery<br />
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