Admission to the exhibition requires a ticket, which can be purchased at the gallery.
Full-price ticket — 200 rubles
Reduced-price ticket — 100 rubles
Public program accompanying the project
Anna Nova Gallery presents the first solo exhibition in St. Petersburg by Ivan Novikov, an artist from the pop/off/art gallery, titled “The Produce of Oblivion.” The gallery’s halls will feature paintings and an installation. The project is curated by Alexandra Urbanovskaya, an independent curator and head of the library at the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art.
In August 2022, Ivan Novikov began work on a series of abstract canvases characterized by a complex pictorial structure. They unfold in a multitude of different shades, but together they create the impression of a single color—blue. Thus, Novikov’s works are blue monochromes. They embody reflections on the ambiguity of the future. In attempting to depict it, the artist drew upon the sensation evoked by a specific shade of blue. This blue is the warm glow of a television screen. It appears the moment the broadcast is interrupted, and in place of the endless stream of information, a blank screen appears, masking the visual noise.
Novikov consciously limits the expressive means in his work to blue monochromes. This limitation is the framework set by the artist for a project that will continue until the image of the desired future becomes reality. This approach allows him to look more deeply and attentively at the circumstances of the times. Ivan does not use the same motifs over and over—each series within the project is built around a theme that interests the artist at a specific moment in time. The exhibition “The Produce of Oblivion” will feature a new series of works created as part of the project. In it, the artist explores the experience of oblivion as a unique state of consciousness, one that invites reflection beyond the realm of memory. Oblivion is understood here as an opportunity to encounter that which lies beyond the boundaries of familiar reality and established theoretical knowledge. Such a state cannot be described unambiguously—it is cognizable at the level of perception in those moments when external events disrupt the contours of everyday life and alter the flow of time. The exhibition invites the viewer to shift their focus from naming to active experience, discovering in abstract painting not the properties of paint, but an experience that transcends the limits of existence.
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