The text was written within the framework of the Laboratory of Art Criticism at the Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art #WinzavodReview Part of the exhibition is occupied by graphic drawings of monuments, made in watercolor or ink and framed in thin wooden mats. The subjects are fragments of monumental architecture, more like sketches about the history of the Mesolithic: the flame of a fire, a huge cliff of the steppe and a lying man turned away from us.

The text was written within the framework of the Laboratory of Art Criticism at the Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art At What If They Went to Moscow, a two-day dance showcase in March, I saw a rather interesting and concentrated presentation of the latest in Russian dance performance as it was presented to a supposedly external foreign curatorial gaze. The latter imposed certain restrictions or expectations.

It should not be thought that moral codes are a recent invention. The promulgation of the Moral Code of the Builder of Communism, which was adopted in 1961 at the XXII Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union as an integral part of the CPSU Program, had a wide resonance. His 12 articles or, as they sometimes say, “commandments” still retain a certain scientific and practical interest, sufficient to quote them. Here they are: 1.

The text was written within the framework of the Laboratory of Art Criticism at the Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art At first glance, the installation “Capture Map” (2019), albeit supplemented by a group performance, is an example of post-Internet sculpture with its materializations of digital artifacts. But in fact, it is a work that condenses a very wide range of expressive means.

The text was written within the framework of the Laboratory of Art Criticism at the Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art #WinzavodReview Daria Makarova, “A little to the left of center, according to the golden ratio.” Curator Olga Deryugina Start site, Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art April 17 – May 19, 2019 The exhibition with this poetic title features a debut personal work, an installation of typical post-digital sculpture.

The text was written within the framework of the Laboratory of Art Criticism at the Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art I invited theater critic Olga Tarakanova to Auchan to visit Andrei Ishonin’s oral exhibition “Alienation and Freedom,” and she responded by starting a correspondence with me. She touched not only on this work, but also on today's issues in performance art. Olga Tarakanova: I’ll start from the formal and safer side - this is a performance, after all.

In one of his works, the Norwegian philosopher Svendsen notes that in many works of the “utopia” genre there is no place for fashion. The same applies, for example, to many science fiction works, where people’s clothes and appearance are as monotonous as possible, adjusted to a certain general type, one style.

The text was written within the framework of the Laboratory of Art Criticism at the Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art Anastasia Vepreva. Lecture-projection “How to live if you are a left-wing melancholic”, 2019 On December 2, Winzavod hosted a lecture-performance by Anastasia Vepreva “How to live if you are a left-wing melancholic?” Ksenia Kangina talked with artist Anastasia Vepreva and art worker Anastasia Dmitrievskaya about the new format of lectures and its artistic implications.

The article "Personality and the Sacred" was written in London, probably in January 1943. The second month has passed since Simone Weil, who arrived in England at the end of November, was enrolled as an editor in the apparatus of Fighting France. Her direct boss, the Commissioner for Internal Affairs (in fact, the minister of the embryonic ministry) Andre Philip, had already more than once doubted the correctness of this step.

The text was written within the framework of the Laboratory of Art Criticism at the Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art Seriousness must be avoided. This seems paradoxical, but a true Beginning must initially know about its End. And here you can’t do without humor (including black humor). New things are born in laughter. Anatoly Osmolovsky “Confession of an avant-garde artist.