The exhibition "Viva, Urals!” got it’s name from the cognominal cycle of poems of the French writer and poet Louis Aragon, written in 1934, inspired by the visit to the USSR as a member of an international group of writers. Those days they watched a large-scale socialist construction, demolition of the old order, the pursuit of industrialization, the dream of a new life. How it looks now, the Ural that was praised in poems by French author and what would they see during the trip to the "land of violence and beautiful eyes» today?
The exhibition is composed of works of artists from several generations living in different regions of the Urals – the Sverdlovsk and Chelyabinsk regions, Perm region. And they differ in their status – from the rector of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture Maxim Kaetkin to street artist Leonid Meadow, from the members of the Union of artists to young students of schools of contemporary art. Totally there are twenty-five artists or theirs associations.
Viewers will see the monumental abstract paintings by Alexey Konstantinov from 80’s , original documentation of performance from 90’s of Atomic Province group, Klim Pashnin works, momentous artist of 2000s, it is all exhibited for the first time ever in Yekaterinburg, as well as installation, created especially for the exhibition. Works of artists immerse the visitor into the atmosphere of fantastic journey of Aragon through time and space of the Urals.
The exhibition "Viva, Urals" – this is the second experience to create a special project of NCCA Moscow Biennale in a regional context. The project offers the city important art premieres: the works of the Permian group «ODEKAL ", Klim Pashnin , Eugene Demchenko and other artists will be shown in Yekaterinburg for the first time, and the Biennale becomes a springboard for the development of another level .
"Viva, Urals!" ties together the year of 1932 and nowadays. Despite the fantastic concept and representation of images, the exhibition describes the reality and the daily experience of each of us at first.
The opening of the exhibition on September 26 (Thu) – 18.30
Opening hours: Tues. – Fri. 12.00 – 20.00, Sat. – Output
Tickets cost 100 rubles, 50 rubles – students and pupils, for free – students of creative disciplines, children under 7 years old and retired.
