Manifesta 10 Parallel program

Generation START

THe Elbow Room

27 June - 30 October 2014

First Cadet ’s Corpus, St-Petersburg

Manifesta 10 Parallel program, Generation START

THe Elbow Room

27 June - 30 October 2014

First Cadet ’s Corpus, St-Petersburg

curator:

NikolayPaladgchenko

Coordinator:

Anastasia Skvortsova

Evgeny Antufiev, Pavel Arsenyev, Tatiana Akhmetgaliev, Aslan Gaisumov, Ivan Gorshkov, Eugene Grandfathers, Taisa Circular, Kirill Makarov, Milk and Vodka, Ivan Novikov, Tatyana Paniker, Alexander Podgorny, Igor Plane, Ksenia Sorokina, Valentin Tkach, Ustina Yakovleva

artists:

In the frame of a program of the European biennial of contemporary art MANIFESTA 10 Generation START is the event that brings together young artists, for whom the Playground of the Winery’s START is the first experience in expressing themselves and also the beginning of their career in contemporary art.

The exhibition Generation START in the former classrooms of the First cadet corps in St. Petersburg plays with a model of a school academic view. The exhibition is based on the principle of the START’site — each artist is given a separate space for his author’s expression. The format of the exhibition will not only tell the audience of MANIFESTA 10 about the activities of the project, but will also present a new generation of contemporary Russian artists.

view of the exhibition
2014

... The space of the room presents itself to us. A light touch, a formally attenuated visual effect through imagery creates a position for perception, indicates a direction in space. This direction of recognition of the ordinary visual field relegates the image to the level of a data set and determines the possibility of its connection and create conditions which may serve as a membrane between what is in itself exists in space and awakening experience ...