WINZAVOD contemporary art center
invites to the «START»

18.10.2012 — 18.11.2012

Knock knock for myself

Project author:

Alexandr Birulin

START's artist

As if in tandem with famous quotes «We don’t need no education. We don’t need no thought control» starts his day Surikov University’s student Sasha Birulin. Academic education in Moscow contemporary artistic environment rates as a severe injury. Often it is necessary to answer the question: «With whom are you, modern art figures?» Rationalism, pragmatism dictation and obligatory inclusion in social politically loaded movement is a roughly soled scheme, which today can shortly lead to a way of an artistic establishment. Infantilism, escape of social environment is chosen as an alternative for a person, who wants to deal only with an artistic canvas. In Birulin’s works inner child becomes stronger than the real adult and accomplishes the impossible- takes himself out the social control environment to his personal permissive area. Street game offers a chance to escape from socially imposed rules and play according to a gamble script. Main character of all the canvases is a small boy, who has got into the game and lost an exit from it. In his dreams he meets a mysterious Wild Animal, filling him with «savage forest terror» and bearing evil. Getting into the psychedelic scrape, we deeper and deeper get into a horrible swamp, where fragments of reality together with dreams are alloyed in one jowl. Birulin’s masterpieces affirm an audience that mind is a «rose on the cross of present».

In the works of Biryulin a child is stronger than a real adult and does the impossible — removes himself from out of the space of social control into his area where everything is permitted The backyard game offers an attempt to dodge the rules imposed by the reality and to play in a more risky scenario. The main character of all the paintings is a little boy who has been trapped in the game and has lost the way out of it.