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Russian Exhibit Looks at Belief After Communism
by Gregory Feifer
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Artist
Oleg Kulik curated a new exhibit at the Vinzavod Gallery in Moscow.
Some think the show, called "I Believe," is among the most important
exhibits of contemporary art since the Soviet collapse.
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Dontzov's Nova, a work projected on the floor, is part of Oleg Kulik's
"I Believe" exhibit at the Vinzavod Gallery in Moscow.
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One of the Vinzavod Gallery's 19th-century wine cellars is now used to
exhibit art.
Morning
Edition, March 13, 2007 Artists left to fend for themselves
after the
collapse of the Soviet Union are finding that Russia's newfound wealth
is breathing life into the art community.
One of several
galleries springing up in Moscow is Vinzavod, housed in a 19th-century
former winery. It is host to the new exhibit "I Believe," part of the
Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, a major arts festival that takes
place in March.
Curator Oleg Kulik says the exhibit aims to
recover a sense of belief or faith from what he calls the dogmatic
contexts of communism and religion.
Inside, smoke machines evoke a sense of an incense-filled cathedral.
"We
don't know there will be a tomorrow, but we believe there will be,"
Kulik says. "This exhibit is meant to assemble various statements about
the beliefs according to which we live our lives."
Each of the works in "I Believe" attempts to conceptualize a new belief
system that is based on questioning, Kulik says.
The
exhibit is evidence of the evolution of Russian art since the early
1990s, when Kulik and other artists struggled to make sense of the
chaos brought on by the Soviet collapse.
Some critics argue that Russian artists are still too heavily
influenced by their Western counterparts.
But exhibits like Kulik's are making Moscow one of the most interesting
places for contemporary art in the world.
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