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Exhibitions, 2012

"Here is deep-felt symbolic begining, need to restore an vivid connection of the world with itself. Contemporary art with it's variation of forms let to operate with different practices, things and meanings, crossing with religious ones. Video, light boxes with dental models ("stem cells of soul, "monads"")reminding religious objects are votivus gifts or baroque catholic makarb (like Hurst), painting from realistic to semiabstract and finally installation work with space, attempt to create integral experience - all it speaks about wide radius of possibilities, behind which there is a wish to restoration, reconstraction of self world".

Mania grandiosa is a diagnosis of the same name exhibition by three co-authors from the Leningradskaya school, J.Alexandrov, I.Goldenshluger and K.Molokh. Grandiosity — like artists bring us — isn't large sizes; Vuchetich and Tsereteli were lessening but their creations were growing. Artist looks more impressive in front of his canvas, decreased to a stamp size. Especially if this stamp-canvas is a reproduction of his own work, made by himself. «We don't copy works by Old Masters — we challenge, making our works in small size: those that have already been done, those that will be done and those that will never be done», - Ivan Goldenshluger says.

Ivan Plusch traditionally deploys the art of painting to  express existential maxims. His art is about  the course of time, although he doesn’t make video because it’s impossible to make an endless film.  There need to be  characters, plot, metaphors and summarizing images. That’s why Plusch prefers more abstract and traditional for XX century ways of transmission genuine pictures of reality which are canvases and spatial installations. He makes them looking alike artifacts, fixing traces of life processes.