Exhibition "Innocent Turnover"
The idea of the Innocent Turnover project appeared in the early spring of 2020, when a note of bad excitement was already in the air. A group of artists wondered where they could find support and consolation.
Of course, in the great Russian literature, which tells exactly about difficult and troubled times! We decided to make dolls and walk around the city with them when all quarantines and restrictions are lifted. This is how the project "Post of a quarantine literary procession" was born, which turned into "Petrograd miracle" and now turned into "Incomplicated turnover".
The project presents mainly a doll, doll sculpture. Making a portrait doll of your favorite author is a very good way to declare your love. And also a great way to get revenge. While doing, he told him everything that had accumulated over the years of love.
So he lives now all in the imprints of the artistic solution of your love, just like you in your time - came out into the big life somewhat crumpled by the impact of reading his immortal works. Now you are quits ...
These works, dolls, portraits are not a caricature or an anecdote. But also not ironed, generously covered with bronze on top stuffed animals from the lesson of literature. Each of the images is carefully verified, any detail is not accidental, refers either to a specific episode of the work, or to the details of the writer's biography.
We tried not to emphasize the topic of difficult moments in life, the so-called "vices". But not at all because we are ardent adherents of purity. Just like in a joke: "But we do not love them for that!" And so, the very aspect of anecdotalism that is still applicable to the project.
Here work was carried out to a large extent with the space of myth. What was actually, what was included in the official biographies, what was remembered by a specific student from the school curriculum, and what boldly walks in the masses, minds and ideas?
These are colored glass, lenses through which we look at any legend. And so we wanted to play with the light from these lenses, their glare, distortion of the optics. The result was a very personal, loving, but also mercilessly sharp look.
This ear is for genius, this sleeve is for alcoholism, there is embroidery on the back because he is a gambler, there is a rose under the collar because he loved his wife so much, he loved so much! And this is a fence, well, it's quite simple, he was born in Moscow ...
It is no coincidence that the pioneer was the doll - the revived monument to Dostoevsky. And let him walk! Bring back walks, life, air, fun, bring back hope.
The project is developing, supplemented, some work is leaving, new ones come. At this time, restrictions are introduced, vaccines are removed, vaccines are invented, and the participating artists experience a variety of adventures in the field of health and medicine. And this also gives an additional colored glass, specifies the optics. Another layer of meanings, personal relationships.
This is neither good nor bad, not happy, but not sad either. This is a turn that everything took against our will, very historically and literary conditioned. Participant?
Nothing of the kind, a completely innocent turnover!
The exhibition "Incomplicated Circulation" is held from 09/23/2021 to 11/21/21, at the St. Petersburg Toy Museum (32, Karpovka River Embankment).
Material prepared Irina Moskvina
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