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Contemporary Art in Traditional Museum - 2004
Museums. Projects. Authors
Museum of the History of St Petersburg Commander’s House, Peter and Paul Fortress
Drift. Narva Gates project by Dmitry Vilensky
Academician Theodosius Chernyshev Central Museum of Scientific Research of Geological Prospecting
Pyotr Shvetsov’s project Columbarium
Peter the Great Museum of Antropology and Ethnography (Kunstkammer)
Teratology by Sergei Babanin (with Elena Netetskaya)
Alexander Popov Central Museum of Communications
Echo of the Ether by Vladislav Yefimov and Aristarkh Chernyshev
Russian Academy of Sciences Museum of Academic Research, Department of Plaster Casts
Tatyana Golovizina’s Lifestyle project (with contributions from Stanislav Menzulsky, Nikita Kazarnovsky and Oleg Vargo).
Sigmund Freud Museum of Dreams
Evelina Domnich, Dmitry Gelfand and Alexander Kalin’s Camera Lucida project.
Yelagin Island Palace Museum of Russian Decorative, Applied and Interior Art (18th to Early 20th Centuries)
Valery Orlov and Alexandra Mitlyanskaya’s Birds of Passage project.
Military and History Museum of Artillery, Engineering and Communication Forces
1. Toy by Yulia Grebneva
The artist interacts with the space of the museum. The size of the child on the poster is correlated to the enormous guns guarding the entrance to the museum. As a result, the armaments are perceived as children’s toys. The poster hangs on the wall of the museum, outside the main entrance.
2. Kaleidoscope by Ulyana Apatina
The attempt to escape or lessen the feeling of alarm evoked by the enormous guns dictates the approach of the artist, who offers a whole new interpretation of the object. In an original form of conversion, the barrel of a cannon is transformed into a kaleidoscope. Visitors are invited to look into the barrel, where they unexpectedly see the bright patterns of a children’s toy.
3. Telewar by Alexei Lovtsov
A toy soldier crawls behind the screen of an old television set. His movements are cyclic and the noise of the rifle is persistent. The soldier crawls across a thick layer of coins, symbolising the idea of war as a way of making money. In our age of never-ending commercial wars, the information on television screens does not reflect the true tragedy of soldiers and peaceful inhabitants. The scenes on the nightly news evoke indifference in viewers, who begin to regard war as a form of puppet show.
4. Alternative by Pavel Dubov
This is another project designed to “tame” armaments. Guns and cannons often have peaceful, even sentimental names -- Wasp, Katyusha, Acacia or Peony. The artist hangs posters alongside the guns, depicting the flowers after which they are named. The result is a series of peaceful alternatives.
5. Advert by Maria Sharafutdinova with Alexander Sementsev
The video films on the television screen imitate real advertisements. Modern wars are commercial enterprises and their success hangs largely on advertising. In the news bulletins on television, we are bombarded with a hidden advertisement for war. Maria Sharafutdinova and Alexander Sementsev offer a more open game.
6. Soul of a Tank by Victoria Ilyushkina
One of the tanks standing outside the entrance to the museum has its own soul -- the quiet song of a soldier, audible deep inside it. This sound installation employs wartime songs.
7. Map of the World by Ilya Trushevsky
In this video work, the artist sets himself the difficult technical task of creating the effect of insects swarming across the surface of a map of the world. War is blood, corpses and flesh and the artist employs minimal resources to convey these associations in his installation. Several virtually indiscernible flies start to crawl across the map. More and more appear, until the entire map is covered with an enormous number of insects. Technically, this is only one map (a real museum exhibit showing military bases) and one small fly (which might also belong to the museum, but which is created with the help of a computer). Without introducing anything new into the space of the traditional museum, the artist combines two layers of reality to create a metaphor of war.
8. Peace Banner by Ekaterina Kurochkina
Part of the permanent exhibition of the museum consists of military banners, linked to various wars or military formations. The artist adds her own peace banner, made in the technique of silkscreen printing.
9. Ideal Soldier by Mikhail Shtarker and Kirill Romanov
Wars are often the site and inspiration for new discoveries and inventions. The development of a new, ideal soldier -- cybernetically and genetically modified -- is possible in the near future. The artists offer their own experimental specimens.
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2010 • [July]
Russian 197046,
Saint-Petersburg,
Petropavlovskaya Fortress,
Nevsky Curtina,
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