An exhibition of drawings by Yuri Albert will be held in Moscow

From April 20 to May 22, the Moscow Gallery “Peresvetov Lane” will host the exhibition “Only Paper. Yuri Albert ”, which will present a series of drawings“ Graphics for the Sights ”one of the most famous representatives of Moscow conceptualism.

The history of the exhibition begins in the 1980s, when the artist Yuri Albert created a series of works “Elite-Democratic Art” (for blind, for stenographers, for sailors, for deaf and so on), in which he “spoke” with the audience using special significant systems. In painting for sailors, the text was recorded by signal flags; in work for deaf -mute - the language of gestures; stenography was written in a row; Pictures for the blind were embossed signs with the text of the brail font.

The continuation of the topic was a “self -portrait with closed eyes”, first shown in Munich in 1995, 88 descriptions of Van Gogh's paintings, scored by Braille. Blind and sighted were invited to the exhibition.

“The main result and purpose of the project was to meet different types of spectators or, rather, of different types of misunderstanding. - says Yuri Albert. - For example, qualified spectators could not read the Braille text, but were able to evaluate the exhibition in the context of contemporary art, and the blind people who never go to exhibitions could read the texts of Van Goga, but did not know the context. Finally, I can’t imagine how the bright and colorful descriptions of Van Goga perceive people who have never distinguished colors, what images incomprehensible to me arise in their minds. At the same time, I hope all the participants in this event were aware of the very fact of their misunderstanding, they felt discomfort, for example, sighted from the presence of the blind, and vice versa. ”

In the Gallery of Peresvetov Lane, within the framework of the “Paper only Paper” program, this long -standing installation on the language of graphics will be presented. A change in technology led not only to a visual change in works, but also to a semantic transformation.

Now this is an image of the installation, abstract "graphics for insight." Work in which the text is still encrypted is closed in themselves, hiding their meaning from both the sighted and the blind. Now these are drawings, they are edged and hidden under glass, and not intended, even speculatively, for any tactile contact.