Artificial materials

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-10 02:10

Man is a thinking creature, and nothing can be done about it. Give him various problems and tricks, and that's it. Yes, everything does not live peacefully - let me express myself, indulge and invent. Particularly restless begin to engage in what is called art. They begin to paint pictures, play the balalaika or stage Moliere. The attitude to the "creative person" is condescending - well, what to take from him, from the creator, everything is restless and joyless for him.

However, does one need to be a member of the Union of Artists to be called an artist? Or a graduate of Gnesinka to sing Mephistopheles' aria in the shower? But you can't drag spectators into the shower. Sing to yourself, don't bother anyone. It's another matter if creativity goes beyond the apartment. To put a work on public display, the author must be absolutely sure that it is worthy of it.

For example, on September 19, an unusual trolleybus appeared on Kirov Square in the city of Petrozavodsk, which for one day turned from a public transport into an exhibition hall. An angry janitor shouted at passers-by, dissatisfied with the abundance of dirt. Inside was Vasya's dummy, from whose pocket metaphorical garbage, like a tsunami, filled the city. T-shirts with painted windows and works of the creative union SaVeL hung on the clothesline. The violinist took the vacant position of the conductor. If the "tail" of the trolleybus became a daytime city, then to the "head" Petrozavodsk plunged into the night when the mountains of garbage are not so striking. With the name of the exhibition “Purely about my Petrozavodsk”, the authors, on the one hand, wanted to tell about it, on the other, they offered to rinse, clean and wash.

Creative Union "SaVeL" is a young team of three members: Sergei Savelievs, Vyacheslav and Mikhail. This is a young team that seeks to show the World from different sides, in different ways and means, aims to tune the viewer to thinking and philosophizing. There is beauty in everything, the task of “SaVeL” is to open it to people. This exhibition for them is the first and very successful attempt to declare themselves as an independent creative entity.

And then the question arose - is it art? There is still an opinion that art exists and is produced only for the rich. SaVeL positions itself as “active creative people”, people who care. They want to discuss, share, raise issues that have no social or gender identity.

As for the content of the exhibition itself, the authors themselves are inclined to doubt. Self-criticism is generally a very useful quality. The XX century divided the concepts of "talent" and "craft", today the question "What" has come to the fore, leaving the question "How" in the background. Filling, previously inseparable from fulfillment, began to live its own life, and vice versa. Although, in any case, the question of what is art, everyone decides for himself … And is it so important?

Art, and with it the viewer, is changing. At this stage, the artist must convince his viewer that it is he who is the viewer, and not the critic and art critic who decides what belongs to art and what does not. You liked the picture, you understood something, discovered, felt - it means this art, only for you and only yours. It is necessary to give the modern viewer confidence in himself: “Art is a way of knowing the World. This work is clear to me, close to me, to my liking - this is my art! And there is no need to impose anything on me, I choose for myself!"

Art is created by the artist with his viewer, the first one reflects the World in his works, offering various ways of interpretation, the second one learns it through these works, accepting or rejecting the proposed ways.