Exhibition Lisa Chuhlantseva "You're like a young me, only better"
21.02.17 at 11.03.17 ISSMAG Gallery an exhibition of participants of the project starting from the 2015/2016 season Lisa Chuhlantseva. Read the article about the exhibition from Aroundart.org
Herself Elizabeth Chuhlantseva lists to those involved in contemporary art, said that is outside of this "profession". But this is only common among artists coquetry: of the most visible examples — Nikita Alexeev, who often says something similar. However, backround Chuhlantseva suggests otherwise. The artist studies in the Rodchenko School, which she, of course, as many local students before her, scolds like a place where impose strict algorithm works and, most importantly, a way of thinking (this is largely fair), but nevertheless, such roots are hard to break. In addition, she did show on the site «Start», which is clearly marked as the place where the show is contemporary art in quite a specific sense of the term, there are not so many trying to cross these barely discernible, but still strict limits. And just after the debut of artist talking as one of the most interesting authors of the younger generation.
However, here between artists of different generations there is a difference. Same Alekseev refuses to be called a contemporary artist because it confuses obsession “relevance”, and also, he does not see worthy colleagues in the most contemporary authors, as he said, 1990-ies, in Russia, in the world — literally calls them shit. But he identificeret yourself with the field of art in a completely institutional form. Have Chuhlantseva other reasons. Her case is analogous to the situation with many figures active in the artistic process of the last decade. Run with some entity called “art” as the Shrine they clearly do not want. It is clear that it is only a question of terminology, but the choice of words visible strategy. For example, for the group DIS, which was in charge the last Berlin Biennale, this concept is not so important. Fashion, music, design, mass media — all goes to move. Chuhlantseva so directly and says: «Clothes music — these are our lucky charms”. If you go this route to the end, at some point, the artist began to create not just clothes, but rather the show though look exhibition of such art can be quite conventional, but the emphasis will be neatly affixed.
the Current draft Chuhlantseva in the gallery ISSMAG exactly. There are pictures objects installation and video, but the basis of everything they do not, and self-representation of the author as a chodacki, romanticized the pages of «Vkontakte» and some amorphous “youth”, which she calls “angels anonymous”. Then of course we can immediately see a Fig in your pocket, because Chuhlantseva not a freak, and the veneer of innocence and “unprofessional” with first sight read like personalist, which, as you know, in her alma mater, let the artist in an interview, the master quite aggressively impose to the students. But all this does not negate the grace of this show, and all these contradictions, just give it dynamism. Indeed, what if the pressure of circumstances (practically brainwashed the influence of the art schools, institutions set limits, rules of the game in the world of art and etc) is so great? You can spit at all, turn the music on and dress up so that my heart became more cheerful; to bind “threads” a lot of items, just close your perception of reality; to write in the stylized under the cover of school notebooks cute platitudes, which being read is not the voice sitting in the «Vkontakte" students and the cry of the suffering artists who are tired of their teacher; well to fill the fog that was literally done on the opening day. And it not so irresponsible and weak position, as it may seem.