RUSSIA, Guest of Honour at Art Paris
Art Paris Art Fair has invited Russia as guest of honour this year. A central space in the fair will be dedicated to 11 galleries from a number of cities in Russia including Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Rostov on Don and Vladivostok, while some 15 European galleries will show work by Russian artists. With about 90 artists represented, Art Paris will be an opportunity to discover and rediscover Russian art from the 1930s to the most contemporary production.
Erarta Galleries is pleased to be one of the select Russian Art Specialists to participate at Art Paris, March 28th - April 1, Booth G1 at the Grand Palais.
Dmitry Shorin, I Believe in Angels - Sculpture no. 8, 2012, hand-finished polymercoated polyurethane.
We will present a series of dramatic new sculptures by Russian artist Dimitry Shorin. Shorin has been exhibited internationally since 1995 and is on permanent display at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art and The State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg.
I Believe in Angels, a series of large-scale sculptures, debates the concept of progress and the limits of the human body in the digital age. Our notion of progress is intrinsically linked with how fast we can move yet the opposite must be true, as cultural theorist Paul Virilio puts it ‘physical speed freezes you’. Our bodies are synchronized with technology, rendering the physical, animal form obsolete; it cannot keep up. From Leonardo Da Vinci to Felix Baumgartner, we have coveted the ability to fly, and Shorin is similarly seduced by the possibilities of flight. In this new work Shorin has created in his signature voyeur’s gaze a series of human flying machines. Drained of colour and placed in the heavens, Shorin’s airplane girls embody our newfound capabilities.
In exploring definitions of beauty and the transcendental power of the feminine, Shorin assigns guardianship to womankind, giving an angel her wings in the most modern sense. Shorin looks to mass media images and revises clichéd ideals in mythical terms, placing the woman at the centre of our evolution as a species. In the assimilation of the industrial and the corporal, Shorin presents to the world a guardian angel for the information age.
A catalogue with an essay by respected writer and critic Edward Lucie-Smith will be produced as part of the project.
Erarta Galleries will also be presenting important works by other prominent and exciting emerging artists including Ilya Gaponov, Irina Drozd, Vladimir Ovchinnikov and Rinat Voligamsi.
We look forward to welcoming you personally to this springtime event for modern and contemporary art.
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