We invite you to the Museum of Contemporary Art Erarta at 14.05.2015 at the exhibition of Vadim Komissarov "Memory of the Earth."
For visitors the exhibition will be open from 14.05.2015 – 04.07.2015.
Vadim Komissarov marks the beginning of the season in St. Petersburg and Leningrad region a small but very capacious exhibition that includes works from different years, back of which runs the trail of interests, doubts and reflections of the author.
Most of the works belong to the creative period, when Vadim Komissarov had the full right to be called "young artist" and look for inspiration in a poor life experience, namely in children's dreams. Painting of Vadim Komissarov five years ago seemed an anachronism, reminding illustrations for science – fiction novels in Soviet youth magazines of 80s. Pop – culture has spawned successful definition to describe the processes, like the hum of modular synthesizers, by means of which engineers – romantics created a potential music of dance floors of other planets. Oxymoron "retro – futurism" successfully conveys a sense of sentimental longing for what was over before it began. The artist himself admits that the topic of space in his work emerged thanks to the Soviet heroic myth, which has only recently lost its magical power over the minds of children.
Fundamental theme for creativity of Vadim Komissarov is the relationship of personal and collective memory. In a classic article of the French sociologist Maurice Halbwachs "Collective and historical memory" is described familiar to everyone phenomenon: as soon as child outgrows the age of a purely sensual life as soon as he takes an interest in the value of the images and pictures that he sees in front of him, we can talk about that he thinks with the others, and that his thinking is divided into completely personal experiences and various currents of collective thought.
Looking at the picture Komissarov, we are faced with the familiar visual language, which is absolutely not relevant today. Maurice Halbwachs, dealing with issues of memory, wrote that the past is not going away, but is stored unconsciously, and continues to live in features of faces, interiors and in old newspapers. Looking closely to reality, it is easy to make a trip into the past. Something similar is doing the artist Komissarov, only the vector of his movement is directed to a fictitious retro – futuristic future that will never happen, but has already lived through by several generations of readers of the novel by Robert A. Heinlein "Orphans of the Sky."
Exhibition "Memory of the Earth" just reminds mysterious science fiction novel, the story of which is familiar and not familiar to the viewer. Like the writers – visionaries Komissarov simulates some pre-industrial society, in a state of permanent picnic. Met in the backwoods rusty grill, inspired the artist to a kind of cosmic odyssey, shows us the sad result of the colonization of habitable planets.
