The last stage of the summer exhibition from the AZ/ART center has begun

The AZ/ART Center for Contemporary Art opened the final exhibition of its Algorithms of Cognition festival, which took the form of an art series: every summer month, the museum created a new exhibition, and now it has demonstrated the latest one.

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At the opening of the final episode, the curator of the cycle, Alexander Dashevsky, urged not to look for connections between the works of artists. He explained that the proximity of different works is completely accidental.

For example, the Coniferous art group goes out into nature every May and engages in creative meditations there: it creates large graphic works by applying ink to paper using grass and twigs. Conifers create fallen trees out of metal and place toy tiger cubs on them; they also build stumps out of plastic.

Irina Korina's installation room completes the journey (or begins — you can view the projects in any order). A participant in the Venice Biennale, one of the masters of Russian art decided to reflect on the subject of burial — but she did it in such a way as to remove all the tragedy and gloom from it, replacing them with lyrical contemplation, absurdism and nostalgia. Iron bars reminiscent of cemetery fences are topped with a plush portrait of psychologist Lev Vygotsky, and a marble tombstone turns into a cozy blanket in a peeling crib.

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