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action—happening Barricade on Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street

action—happening Barricade on Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street

RADEK theory. art. politics The Non-Governmental Control Comission

action — happening Barricade on Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street

May, 23, 17. 00: the action is over, a blocking of the street 150 meters from the Kremlin, which continued for two hours and was realized by more than two hundred artists, intellectuals and students. It was a protest against the increasing political and cultural reaction, which is manifest in the total breakdown of parliamentary democracy, society's unability to counteract the governmantal dictatorship, the distribution of nationalist ideology (erecting of official monuments, business-centers, the introduction of repressive laws, ignoring the protests of miners, teachers etc. )
The action was the first examination of non-traditional political technologies in russian conditions. It's participants trust neither the existing power, nor the possibilities of the representative democracy. The basic idea of the participants is that evey citizen is to have his own voice and express his own will, regardless of "realism" and "objectivity" (the evening before, the organizers received a message from Daniel Cohn-Bendit, the leader of the Paris May 68 demonstrations and the present Europarliament Deputy). According to the main slogan of the Parisian revolution of 1968: "Let's be realists — Let's demand the impossible", the initiative group demanded:
— a monthly payment of $ 1 200 for every participant of the action;
— free use of drugs for every participant of the action;
— the right to free and uninhibited travel for every participant of the action. During the action the participants spontaneously proclaimed the new slogans
concerning the change of contemporary russian order of robbery capitalism. At the same time, the traditional slogans of the parisian revolution were risen: "It's prohibited to prohibit!", "All the power — to the imagination!", "Let's be realists — let's demand the impossible".
Approximately at 16. 30 the action's participants started the march to Kremlin, shouting "We're victorious!". 10 minutes after its beginning the militia, which stood almost passive till this moment, blocked the participants' way and arrested six organizers and the activists, using extremely violent methods.
17. 30: The non-arrested participants congregated near the 83rd militia department, where, as the militiamen were saying, the arrested were taken. The militia in the office said that all the arrested had already been transferred from there to an unknown location. Near by the militia department the activists met the Central Area Head Prefect A. S. Musykantsky, who refused to help them or the sympathisers in any way, because the barricade action prevented him to get to his daughter's birthday in time. He called the whole action "petty hooliganism".
19. 00 The group of non-arrested participants managed to contact 83th, 11th and 43d Moscow departments of militia. According to the latest information, the
editor-in-chief of "RADEK" magazine Anatoly Osmolovsky and writer Dmitri Pimenov were taken to the Narcotics Testing Centre. The fate of the others in custody is still unknown. We don't exclude the possibility that the authorities will try to start a criminal case.
May, 24, 01. 00: In the evening, reports about the action were broadcast on almost all TV channels and radio. We can say, the journalists took the side of the power, and used the common strategy of downgrading the scandal. The reports were made in a slighting and ironical tone. The participants never expected that the bourgois media, which belong to the big financial-industrial companies, would join in their demands, and are absolutely satisfied with the widespread distribution of information on the events.
The group of non-arrested organizers learned, that the editor-in-chief of "RADEK" magazine A. Osmolovsky and writer D. Pimenov are in the 11th, artist Avdei Ter-Oganyan and activist Dmitri Model in 122nd, writer M. Demskaya and a participant by name Misha are in the 88th Moscow departments of the militia. An activist David Ter-Oganyan was released approximately at 21. 00. In the General Prosecution office we found out that the case of the arrested was already being considered. A. Osmolovsky said that probably they will be held in custody for 48 hours. D. Pimenov told the journalists who came that the militia jeered at him and refused to call for the ambulance in spite of his multiple complaints. After the visit of journalists the ambulance was called (22. 29) and took Pimenov to Botkinskaya hospital with a kidney disorder and "alcohol intoxication". The journalists (the staff of Russian central TV and an american newspaper) can witness that they didn't notice any signs of alcohol intoxication (and couldn't notice, because he was unable to drink anything after the arrest, for five hours already), which means: the information is untrue or he was violently forced to drink in the militia department. In conversation with the journalists the vice-director of the area's Department of the Internal Affairs falsely claimed that the ambulance was called before their coming, and stated, that the arrested were drug-crazed. He also said, they have no rights, except those to eat and drink and they are well fed in the militia station.
We didn't expect any other behaviour from the russian cops, but we must inform about every their crime, raise the finger, leave nothing in the shadow. We didn't expect anything else from the authorities, just feared more aggressive action from them, more understanding of the situation. We count the events of the previous day a real and important victory. Now we're definitely sure, we've chosen the right way to act.
P. S. We have to add, that under the violent actions of power we radicalize our demands. Now we demand the monthly payment in size of not $ 1 200, but $ 500 000. The demands connected with the legalization of drugs and free travel all over the world, for all the action's participants stay the same.
May, 24, 10. 30: At the moment Anatoly Osmolovsky, Maria Demskaya, Dmitri Pimenov, Dmitri Model, Avdei Ter-Oganyan and an unknown anarchist Misha by name, are all still in custody. Despite the fact that all the militia departments rudely reject to give any information, we found out the trial will take place tomorrow, at May 25, 9. 00, in the court house of Krasnopresnenskaya area, by address: Zoologicheskaya street, 20. The press-conference of the organizers will take place at Tuesday, 26, 14. 00, in XL-Gallery, Bolshaya Sadovaya, 6.
To get more information call: 137 71 31,
pager 234 96 96, ab47383, e-mail: radek@glasnet. ru

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Периоды творчества

1987 – 1990 («Министерство ПРО СССР»)

1989 – 1992 (Э.Т.И.)

1992 – 1994 (Necesiudik)

1992– 2001 (Personal projects)

1997 – 2000 (Против всех)

2000 – 2002 (Нонспектакулярное искусство)

2002 – 2012 (Personal projects)

12/02/2015
Artist’s Talk: Anatoly Osmolovsky

Artist’s Talk: Anatoly Osmolovsky

27 Feb 20156:30 pm | Nash & Brandon Rooms | £8.00 to £10.00

Book Tickets

Russian artist, writer and theorist Anatoly Osmolovsky delivers a lecture examining the history of Russian Actionism and its value system. Osmolovsky began his career as a writer in the (then) Soviet Union and has been engaged in radical publishing and collective art-making throughout his career. The artist was involved with the Radek Community of the 1990s and early 2000s, collectivising Moscow Actionist-inspired artists who made a number of key public protest performances. Osmolovsky lead the younger artists in actions like Barricades (1998) and Against Everyone (1999), for which the group stormed the Lenin mausoleum, unfurling a banner with the titular words printed in large letters. Osmolovsky has since founded the independent art school Institute BAZA (2012).

Post Pop: East Meets West

26 November 2014 - 23 February 2015

Post Pop: East Meets West The exhibition brings together 250 works by 110 artists from China, the Former Soviet Union, Taiwan, the UK and the USA in a comprehensive survey celebrating Pop Art's legacy. Post Pop: East Meets West examines why of all the twentieth century's art movements, Pop Art has had such a powerful influence over artists from world regions that have had very different and sometimes opposing ideologies.

The exhibition celebrates the art being produced in these four distinct regions since the heyday of Pop, and presents them in relation to each other through the framework of six themes: Habitat; Advertising and Consumerism; Celebrity and Mass Media; Art History; Religion and Ideology; Sex and the Body.

Mike Nelson selects from the V-A-C collection:
Again, more things (a table ruin)

Known for his atmospheric, immersive installations British artist Mike Nelson (b. 1967) transforms the gallery with sculptures drawn from the V-A-C collection.

The space, with a rough wooden floor and mass of modelled figures, is suggestive of an artist’s studio, but it is filled with sculptures of the body by some of the 20th century’s greatest artists.

Displayed on this common ground, Constantin Brancusi’s The First Cry (1917) dissolves the human form into elliptical shapes, and Alberto Giacometti’s Femme Debout (1957) elongates a woman’s body into abstraction. While contemporary artist Pawel Althamer’s depiction of three figures around a campfire becomes a focal point around which the other sculptures – by artists including Petr Galadzhev and Anatoly Osmolovsky - seem to be gathered.The display highlights the V-A-C collection, Moscow, as part of the Whitechapel Gallery’s programme of opening up rarely seen collections from around the world.

The publication for this exhibition will available from the end of September. More (press-release)

Thomas Brambilla gallery is proud to announce on Saturday 31 March 2012 the opening of the
group show Blind hole, with William Anastasi, Lucio Fontana, Udomsak Krisanamis, Anatoly
Osmolovsky, Nathan Peter, Grayson Revoir.

31/03/2012 – 04/06/2012
Opening: Saturday 31 March 2012 h.18.30.
Opening hours: Tuesday - Saturday h.14:00-19:00.

Thomas Brambilla
Via Casalino 25
24121 Bergamo Italia
Ph: +39 035 247418
www.thomasbrambilla.com
info@thomasbrambilla.com

07/07/2011
Ostalgia VIP Preview Invite

New Museum will present “Ostalgia,” an exhibition that brings together the work of more than fifty artists from twenty countries across Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Republics. Contesting the format of a conventional geographical survey, the exhibition will include works produced by Western European artists who have depicted the reality and the myth of the East.

The exhibition takes its title from the German word ostalgie, a term that emerged in the 1990s to describe a sense of longing and nostalgia for the era before the collapse of the Communist Bloc. Twenty years ago, a process of dissolution began, leading to the break-up of the Soviet Union and of many other countries that had been united under communist governments. From the Baltic republics to the Balkans, from Central Europe to Central Asia, entire regions and nations were reconfigured, their constitutions rewritten, their borders redrawn. “Ostalgia” looks at the art produced in and about some of these countries, many of which did not formally exist two decades ago. Mixing private confessions and collective traumas, the exhibition traces a psychological landscape in which individuals and entire societies negotiate new relationships to history, geography, and ideology.

2010-10-16

Fotoreportažas iš Rusijos šiuolaikinio meno projekto parodos „Estetika VS Informacija“ atidarymo (paroda veiks iki lapkričio 14 d.)...

Презентация и обсуждение первого номера журнала "БАЗА" состоится 12 сентября в 20.00 в книжном магазине "Гилея" по адресу: Тверской бульвар, 9. Вход свободный.

Уважаемые участники круглого стола, к сожалению я не могу принять участие в обсуждении, так как в этот момент нахожусь в поезде Москва-Вильнюс. Будучи первым обладателем премии Кандинского мне, конечно, не безразлична судьба этой в высшей мере благотворной инициативы, потому я предлагаю вашему вниманию собственные соображения.

Газета «Коммерсантъ» № 180 (4480) от 29.09.2010

Выставка "Модерникон" счастливо соединила деньги олигархов с креативностью художников.

Журнал о современном искусстве БАЗА, № 1 В сборнике публикация центрального эссе немецкого философа Гарри Леманна «Авангард сегодня». Подборка статей и лекций Клемента Гринберга. Новый поэтический цикл поэта Дмитрия Пименова. Полиграфические художественные проекты С.Огурцова и С.Шурипы. А так же аналитические статьи современных российских художников по теме «Произведение искусства».

23 сентября–27 февраля,Выставка «Модерникон.Современное искусство из России», Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Турин,Италия) Этаблированный фонд с шикарным выставочным залом Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Турин, Италия) и новый российский фонд «Виктория — Искусство быть современным» (Москва) показывают выставку русских художников сегодняшнего дня, кураторами которой выступили Франческо Бонами (художественный директор фонда) и Ирене Кальдерони. Выставка исходит из гипотезы (навеянной идеями Анатолия Осмоловского), согласно которой русское искусство раньше имело радикальную и провокационную эстетику, а ныне вступило в новую фазу своего развития, где прямое действие уступило место более эстетическому подходу.

23/09/2010
Печатные издания Радек
Поступили в продажу печатные издания группы Радек
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13/09/2010
«Тупые, наверное. Книжек не читают»

Ирина Постникова /03 сентября 2010

Художник, куратор, философ Анатолий Осмоловский политике никогда не был чужд. Более того, всегда считал себя оппозиционером — и власть публично критиковал. Тем не менее, месяц назад Осмоловский поучаствовал в молодежном форуме «Селигер», чем изрядно всех удивил. Сам он, впрочем, считает, что степень его оппозиционности от пребывания среди прокремлевских активистов не уменьшилась. Потому что не контекст красит человека, а человек — контекст.

ММ: Анатолий, мне интересно, как начиналась Ваша творческая деятельность?

АО: Я сам из Москвы, начинал как литератор, как поэт. В 17-18 лет, когда здесь началась перестройка и была объявлена свобода и гласность, я читал стихи в публичных местах, на улице. Но дело в том, что российский литературный круг в интеллектуальном смысле достаточно примитивен, и довольно быстро меня и моих друзей эта деятельность перестала удовлетворять. Постепенно я стал смещаться в область перформанса, а потом и изобразительного искусства.

Во время летнего путешествия по Уралу мы – я, Александр Липницкий и Светлана Баскова – проездом посетили Свияжский Успенский собор. Собор этот известен сохранившимися фресками 16 века. В России совсем не много сохранившихся фресок 16 века. За исключением Ферапонтова монастыря кое-где сохранились небольшие фрагменты, да и то в крайне плохом состоянии. Фрески Успенского собора сохранились в большом объеме. Качество фресок выдающееся. В некоторых фрагментах видны отголоски «дионисиевого» письма.

action—happening Barricade on Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street

RADEK theory. art. politics The Non-Governmental Control Comission

action — happening Barricade on Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street

1998 - action-happening «Barricade on Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street»

Периоды творчества

Post Pop: East Meets West

Mike Nelson selects from the V-A-C collection: Again, more things (a table ruin)

Mike Nelson selects from the V-A-C collection:
Again, more things (a table ruin)