Oleg Kulik (Moscow). Lolita: Theme and Variations (photography).
Booklet. Co-organized with XL Gallery (Moscow). The Alice vs. Lolita project testifies that Oleg Kulik’s radical attempts to transgress the horizon of the human presuppose a return. Transgression is like a boomerang. Continue reading
Edward Lucie-Smith (London, Great Britain). Nudes and Landscapes (photography).
Booklet. The exhibition at D137 Gallery consisted largely of photographs made on commission for BBC television, for the first in a series of programmes entitled ‘Taboo’. The ‘Taboo’ discussed in this particular programme was nudity, especially male nudity, and I was filmed as I created the images using two models [who had never met each other previously] in a studio. Continue reading
Art Forum Berlin’ 2002.
Berlin. Germany. Catalogue.
Sergeyev Sergey (painting, painting on metal)
Georgy Gurianov (painting)
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.