2016 Festival booklet / Буклет фестиваля

Public art
June 15 — August 7
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Author
Georgy Litichevsky
Place
Bar “Barslona” and Rubinsteina street,
26 Rubinsteina st., metro station “Vladimirskaya”
Outdoor comic novels exhibition, pasted on the street walls.
Comics by contemporary artist Georgy Litichevsky are devoted
to urban legends and are presented as weekly updated wall
newspapers. The absurdist stories invented by Litichevskiy
consist of strange mixture where real historical figures meet
literary heroes: Lunacharsky uses the energy of Isadora Duncan
and Scheherazade for the country electrification, and Catherine
the Great studies Count Cagliostro’s project of wolf and
crocodile crossbreeding.
By passers and residents of Rubinstein street (where
graphic novels are presented), are not only casual viewers and
readers of phantasmagoric stories, invented by the author. They
can influence on the new comic strip about Anton Rubinstein,
created specifically for the festival, by commenting exhibition
in social networks. In one of the comic strips it’s character utters
the phrase: “Neva’s air provokes the phantoms materialization”.
That phrase could be considered as the exhibition motto.
George Litichevsky — Moscow artist, a member of the Moscow
Art Magazine editorial board, participated in numerous exhibitions
and international biennales in Europe and Russia, including
the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum, the
Centre Pompidou. Since the beginning of the 1980s Litichevskiy
is using the comics aesthetics, which later became part of
the artistic arsenal of Moscow Conceptualism
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