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  The exhibition will be open from June 27 to July 15, 2013
Russian Museum of Applied Arts — White Hall
Delegatskaya str., 3, Moscow

 

Ekaterina Anokhina

Oleg Borodin

Dmitry Guimon

Sasha Karelina

Michelle Lin

Alexander Lubin

Olga Matveeva

Igor Samolyot

Arthur Shuraev

Alisa Taezhnaya

Daniil Udobniy

Anton Zabrodin

 

 

Usually when artists are asked to create the pieces especially for an exhibition, they are either given a theme, or the curators envision a general question of the show. Trying to limit the artist in terms of the choice of his media can even be seen as disgraceful. This time, we asked the participants who work mainly with photography, to do a very particular thing — to place their photographs onto everyday objects. This way, we limited them in the choice of technique, but gave them a full freedom of the theme. Preparing this exhibition, we were excited to see how the participants started from the most obvious objects, but later moved to the more radical combinations of the photographs and the objects. Unfortunately, a lot of it stayed at the idea level.

This show is in fact the continuation of the Museum of Applied Arts itself where everyday objects characterized by either historical or artistic value are displayed to public. Suddenly they get a lot of attention, and using them for their intended purpose becomes out of question.

We stayed with this time-proved exhibition principles and complemented the power of the exhibition case with the power of the large space. There is no doubt that the visitor needs to give every object a lot of attention.

However, a lot of museum objects were in use back in times and were lost among other less successful objects which later were not placed under the museum glass. This is why in the catalogue we show the objects in their natural environments where it will be too difficult to see them fifty years later. Everyday objects, of course, can’t be always produces individually. However, the contemporary commerce has created the way to individualize them. The only thing you need to do is to bring your favorite photo to a printing house, and the next day you will get a unique cup, plate, curtain, or a set of bedsheets. Such objects are usually made with quite a bad taste but one can’t leave a whole industry unnoticed without even trying to play with it. Contemporary photographers, whose works are usually shown in a much decent environment, let their works be a part of this industry.
 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

Curators

Sonya Guimon

Anton Zabrodin