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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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