Special guest: Mary Dinaburg. Art, Fashion and Commerce.
Co-organized with Consulate General of the USA in St. Petersburg

Timur Novikov. Flying and Sailing (engraving, hand-stitching).

The fathomless skies are reflected in ten square miles of water in St Petersburg. This enormous mirror dissolves all the details, sending them straight to the depths of eternity, which returns their images and symbols. It is then that we see the large in the small. Ships, planes, birds, people and buildings – the entire essence of a body coasting through time, across the smooth surface of the sky and water. Continue reading →

Kiriko Shirobayashi. Collected Moments(photography, video installation).

In terms of Japan Week 3

Anatoliy Vasiliev. Persons and Characters (painting, graphics).

Catalogue

Art Moscow’2002, the International Art Fair. Moscow. Russia.
Catalogue. Sergeyev Sergey (painting on metal, graphics), Sergey Shutov (video, photography)

Roundtable discussion III: Richard Wagner. Contemporary art. St. Petersburg.
Co-organized with Goethe Institute. St. Petersburg. Russia. Participants: I. Chechot, Y. H246;ller, E. Khodorkovskaya, O. Kudriavtseva, A. Lepork, T. Milyukova, G. Piltz, A. Porfirieva and others

Designs by Gottfried Piltz for York Heller’s opera Der Meister und Margarita (audio installation).

Booklet. Co-organized with Goethe Institute. St. Petersburg. Russia. Gottfried Piltz is already known to opera lovers in St Petersburg following his productions of Richard Wagner’s Das Rheingold (2000) and Die Walkure at the Mariinsky Theatre.

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Oleg Mikheyev (London, Great Britain).
Black White and Red All Over … (photography)

Roundtable discussion II: Trends in contemporary art.
Participants: A. Frants, O. Kudriavtseva, T. Milyukova, T. Novikov, O. Thomson and others

Symbols and Visual Perception (video installation, object).
Co-organized with SPb Art Project, USA; Russian Album, Russia

Sergeyev Sergey. Shift (painting, graphics, painting on metal).

Cataloque

Abstraction in Russia. XXIst Century. Modern Technologies.

Catalogue. In term of the State Russian Museum’s project Abstraction in the Russian Art. XXth century. Sergeyev Sergey (St. Petersburg) Computer painting. Sergey Shutov (Moscow) Videofeedback. Traditional ways of creating works of art have been supplemented in the twenty-first century by such modern media as digital, computer and electronic technologies. Continue reading →