WINZAVOD contemporary art center
invites to the «START»

The opening of the exhibition "still I believe" project participant the START of the season 2014-2015 of the group U/N MULTITUDE

Show "And yet I believe" will take place in the CHA with 22.04.2016,  13.05.2016 G.

In the Central house of artists within the exhibition  of the Union of Artists "the YOUTH of RUSSIA» opens  special project  "I believe" group U/N MULTITUDE. for a Long time the Union of Artists and the representatives of the "actual" art  lived in almost parallel worlds, honing their positions independently from each other, avoiding dialogue in public space, exhibitions, lectures and seminars. In Soviet and post-Soviet system of realistic art actively developed critique of modernism and the avant-garde in favor of ideas of the beautiful and ideal, one way or another embodied in figurative and thematic painting, while an alternative was represented by the artists whose task was the revision of the conventions of aesthetics and even its final dismantling, involving the blurring of boundaries between art and life. Today these traditions in the General field of interpretation of history again find each other and react their borders. 

the Project of art group u/n multitude devoted to the problematization of this intersection. Like some previous work, "...And yet I believe" built on "transfer" one of the established institutional tradition in a different environment and infrastructure. Mixing the artistic context of the Artists ' Union and representatives of "contemporary art", can be traced to an important point in the shared history of interaction. Thus, u/n multitude embedded in the exhibition "Youth of Russia" to use the methods of contemporary art to clarify the work of the Artists Union as an institution. The project analyzes the reasoning, aesthetic stance and rhetoric of the Union, as well as imaginary thought out organizational work on creation of the first exhibition "of the Department of contemporary art", which is attended by many well-known contemporary artists.