Sergey Lotsmanov. "Blue flower"
01 March 2017 hosted a one-day exhibition "Blue flower" of the project participant the START of the SEASON 2008/2009 Sergey Lotsmanov. Read the article about the exhibition from Atoundart.org
the Exhibition wore a independent character that has become part of the artistic gesture — the artist for a few hours I rented a hall for presentations coworking spaces, there gathered the exhibition, held a Vernissage, after hours due to collected all the back and drove away. Conference hall — not “white cube": it stands for the spirit of the corporate picture of the world, ethics, rapid start-UPS and energy just do it. The redundancy that permeates today's daily consumption, extends at work images — one of the key themes in practice Lotsmanova. These samples are small, mobile, and numerous — incidentally, the exhibition itself for a few hours, involves a fair amount of "compactness" of the physical objects involved in the product, the mobility of the artist-Logist.
“the Blue flower” — in German die blauе Blume, which in Russian the expression goes, “blue dream” dates back to the unfinished novel by NOVALIS "Heinrich von Ofterdingen" (1800), which describes the mystical journey-dreams of the main character looking for a blue flower. Later "blue flower" becomes a symbol of romanticism, will pipe, wanders on the landscape of culture, acquiring a network of links and values: gives the name of the student movement of 1968 in Germany and root popular culture — in ‘twin Peaks” by David Lynch and blockbuster "Batman: the beginning”. Such is the life of an image can be considered as the key to the project Lotsmanova: “artwork open source” as it represents the text for the exhibition the artist himself.
On a long table in the hall laid out the envelopes with handouts: a set of postcards, disc and memory card. On the envelope you can read the word symbolon, and googling to know that this precursor to modern “a symbol” in Ancient Greece was the name of clay tablets that were split in half, when the wanderer left his hometown to one part to give him a different — the one who remains, and then, many years later, to identify them to each other. A search engine provides another option: the city of Symbolum today — Balaklava, it is located in the southwestern part of the Crimea. Here on the table is the scheme for embroidery with a wedding greeting in the Ukrainian language, on it-paper boats of receipts Western Union, her story of trying to do a transfer from Russia in the Ukraine $6, met the resistance of the system “security”. Letter electricity ocean; sheet of paper with a blurred image — the result of double printing on normal A4 first, the texture of Kraft paper, and then diffuse in photoshop drawing; Tsvetik-Semitsvetik; lucky number seven and its scientific legitimacy here — calculation of coincidence of numbers of the dice on the theory of probability; stone from which to sculpt monuments, and much more. Dancing images continue the material on electronic media of text and dozens of images found.
Meanings multiply — that you are going to fall apart again, depending on the angle of the beholder and intervention in mechanics “code”. John Roberts refers to "blue flower" NOVALIS, interpreting the dialogue in a novel the nature of sleep and knowledge, the conductor of which the sleep becomes, as the anticipation of the criticism of the imagery in the twentieth century, “for where life is (way) as a means of finding and production values opposed to the ability to interpret and judge”. He describes the situation of art today as a conflict between the need to market socialization — and so, involvement in the endless circulation of images as “particularistic object of consumption”, which are not intended to “truth” and the demands for their own autonomy, which is dictated by the conjunction of art with a “good universal collective solidarity». The latter creates a constant need to “production is a perfect community for art”.[1]
"Blue flower" Lotsmanova — project which attempt the logistics of such a production community: an ordered chain of characters is thrown back into the vast anonymous network, but it is going to the limited space and time, where the viewer(s) is invited to the physical presence, but the product becomes action (probably collective, no matter what semantic bundles that phrase here or paved). Is it right to use in against this activity category, the result and its success? Corporate furnished has to think about it, but hurry up with conclusions, the author of the text sees necessary.