Center for Contemporary Art WINERY has decided to nominate curatorial project by Anatoly Osmolovsky “…cheers! Sculpture!" at the all-Russian competition in contemporary visual art INNOVATION in the category ’s Curatorial project".

the concept of the exhibition «…cheers! Sculpture!":

the Exhibition raises the question about the role of artists in shaping public urban space with the expressive means of sculpture, as well as allows you to critically illuminate the process of a new monumental order, we witness.

the Project is a kind of modern revision of the artistic process in the field of sculpture. However it is and demonstration of a variety of sculptural forms that maps different individual artistic strategies, allowing the artists to understand more precisely his own work and its place in the artistic process. Thus, the organizers are asking yourself: «is it Possible in the current Russian situation, modern art sculpture?".

in Addition to the established well-known artists, the exhibition presents the sculptures of young artists working with different materials, from bronze to paper.  Making sculpture is quite expensive, but young artists find inexpensive materials and show that the sculpture is available not only to a narrow circle, controlling the material production and the system of tenders.

According to the curator of the exhibition of Anatoly Osmolovsky, today in Moscow and other cities of monumental art becomes a field of active debate: "to Establish memorials and monuments, intended to form a national identity "top", together with the main cultural policy of the country, which remains the dominant conservative Canon of aesthetic. In these monuments the memory appears to be uncontested by a series of historical references, uncritical claims about the past as seen from the perspective of dominant political environment".

Similar conditions have changed the situation for the sculpture and require the active engagement of works of art in the city space, suggesting we interpret the sculpture in its social meaning, in an open public field. Contemporary artists are not only able to indicate ousted from the memory of history, but to identify alternative models of interaction with public space. The artist Thomas Hirschhorn called this process "the monuments from below", emphasising the social relations that are tied around the monument without the help of Central forces and the main cultural interpretation.