Rezhim Raboty

“Report on the work done” in the XL gallery -already the seventh personal exhibition of Alexander Poser. Before that, he showed large projects in different spaces - in the same XL , in the "factory", in the apartment gallery, in Voronezh, in Leipzig. In addition, he participated in a huge number of group exhibitions. With such an intensive inclusion in the artistic process, the reputation of a closed and non -fingling person has a reputation; This, of course, is not entirely true, but such a paradoxical renoma only says that it is more invested in art than in the production of noise in social networks, and does not make promises that he would not hold back - he managed to avoid the rampant ailments that struck the Moscow art scene at the end of the zero and still does not subside.

Poster is known for converting the ordinary things that we encounter in the apartment, on the street, in the store, etc., in paradoxical objects. A “playground” is a good example: the artist first presented it at the exhibition at the “factory” in 2011 (last year the same work, already “in development”, was shown in the “garage” as part of the “shadow of doubt” ). The layout of recognizable crows-carousels on a green lining, and everything seems to be fine, but something is wrong: a staircase, dysfunctional on the one hand, swing with two seats, on one of which it is unlikely that someone takes another. In general, such recognizable mutations of housing and communal services and other improvement objects, about which you can find many photographs on the Internet. The similar logic was in the two previous exhibitions of the artist in XL : the packets from the supermarket that became monumental (“I went to the store I will be after 5 minutes” , 2013) or no less solemn office coolers lined up by Stonehenja around the felt bells ( Brutto , 2012).

The current exhibition - judging even by name - the story of creative work, artistic production primarily. The exposition concentrated around the two columns was made not only as reporting in the spirit of student views (although this is primarily meant), but rather as “EXPO” is also a review, but not telling about the past and made to the future: this is what we did, and we can do even better and more, contact ! Stands with paintings and sculptural work (prickly, it is worth noting, feels perfectly materials like gypsum, cement and metal), rhyming with each other, complemented by ads and other information board. " Rezhim Raboty , ”the board says with“ Work hours ”.

Here we could say that “difficult times have come, it became more difficult for artists to work than it was, and now the overcoming such a transition to applied creativity and the search for hack”, and so on blah blah blah on the topic “artist and society”, “bad state” and so on. But all this, of course, would be a complete nonsense for a catastrophically impressionable reader, and there are most of them now , alas. In fact, after watching this exhibition, I felt such a surge of optimism that there was no long ago. The artist does not groan, does not gasp, but does. It's time, if you think carefully.