The Raw, The Cooked and The Packaged
30 Nov 2007 - 06 Jan 2008
THE RAW, THE COOKED AND THE PACKAGED
The Archive of Perestroika Art
30 November-6 January 2008, Studio K
This multi-part exhibition introduces to the viewer works of art, archives and historical accumulations from the Perestroika period - in different stages of their genealogy and association. It includes paintings, photographs, sketches, slides, negatives, manifestos, official documents, letters and other ephemera, as well as original "parallel" films, music, smells and further "raw" materials from the unofficial artistic cultures of Leningrad-St. Petersburg, Tallinn and Yekaterinburg. The time-frame is from the early 1980s - early 1990s, bridging the period of dramatic and cataclysmic changes known to the world as Perestroika. Although the works and materials relate to figures safely seated in the pantheon of these art scenes and even internationally, they also include wholly "undiscovered" artists active in this period of social collapse and cultural explosion. This exhibition has been curated directly from the private collections and homes of artists, and has been packaged in the raw spirit of those times.
For more particulars on some of the works in the exhibition, please visit:
www.e-e.eu/kiasma.htm
The exhibition is an independent part of the "Revisiting Perestroika - Processes and Alternatives" conference organised by the Aleksanteri Institute of the University of Helsinki 29 November-1 December.
Perestroika in Russian means "restructuring" or, literally, "re-building". From 1985 onward, it became an internationally recognized term for the reforms introduced by the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. These reforms eventually led to the end of the Cold War, the reunification of Europe and the collapse of the Soviet Union, seismically transforming the world-political map.
The Archive of Perestroika Art
30 November-6 January 2008, Studio K
This multi-part exhibition introduces to the viewer works of art, archives and historical accumulations from the Perestroika period - in different stages of their genealogy and association. It includes paintings, photographs, sketches, slides, negatives, manifestos, official documents, letters and other ephemera, as well as original "parallel" films, music, smells and further "raw" materials from the unofficial artistic cultures of Leningrad-St. Petersburg, Tallinn and Yekaterinburg. The time-frame is from the early 1980s - early 1990s, bridging the period of dramatic and cataclysmic changes known to the world as Perestroika. Although the works and materials relate to figures safely seated in the pantheon of these art scenes and even internationally, they also include wholly "undiscovered" artists active in this period of social collapse and cultural explosion. This exhibition has been curated directly from the private collections and homes of artists, and has been packaged in the raw spirit of those times.
For more particulars on some of the works in the exhibition, please visit:
www.e-e.eu/kiasma.htm
The exhibition is an independent part of the "Revisiting Perestroika - Processes and Alternatives" conference organised by the Aleksanteri Institute of the University of Helsinki 29 November-1 December.
Perestroika in Russian means "restructuring" or, literally, "re-building". From 1985 onward, it became an internationally recognized term for the reforms introduced by the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. These reforms eventually led to the end of the Cold War, the reunification of Europe and the collapse of the Soviet Union, seismically transforming the world-political map.