(EN) Анатолий Белкин. Буквальные связи
Exhibition
01 February —
31 December, 2026
10:00-20:00
Льготный билет
₽
Без цены
₽
Взрослые (РФ и СНГ)
1000 ₽
Дети от 6 до 18 лет
500 ₽
Дети до 6 лет
0 ₽
Льготный билет
Без цены
Взрослые (РФ и СНГ)
1000
Дети от 6 до 18 лет
500
Дети до 6 лет
0
On March 12, an exhibition opened at the AZART Center for Contemporary Art Anatoly Belkin's "Literal Connections". The exhibition includes more than 70 paintings, graphic and sculptural works by the artist from the collections of the AZ Museum and private collections. The exhibition is devoted to the study of Belkin's figure, the meaningful gap between the artist's artistic, behavioral drawing and one of the central themes of his art — the erosion of the cultural layer, the fragmentation of memory. The curator of the project is an art critic Alexander Dashevsky.
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Создатели выставки
Anatoly Belkin is an artist, a cultural promoter, a mystifier, and a participant in the first exhibitions of unofficial art in Leningrad in the 1970s. He is the founder of the St. Petersburg magazines Sobaka.ru and Veshch.doc. Today, his works are displayed in the Hermitage Museum, the Russian Museum, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, and other museums around the world. Since the late 1980s, the artist's solo exhibitions have been held in galleries in New York, Paris, London, and Berlin, and in 2004, Belkin's exhibition "The Gold of the Marshes," a grandiose project about a fictional "marsh civilization," marked a breakthrough in contemporary Russian art at the Hermitage Museum. However, the artist's only solo exhibition in Moscow took place in 2006 at the Triumf Gallery, where "The Gold of the Marshes" project was showcased again in collaboration with the Hermitage Museum.
After almost 20 years, at his second Moscow exhibition, Literal Connections, Belkin presented himself not only as a master of visual play and mystification, but also as a researcher of history, capturing meanings and forms that are slipping into the past.
The exhibition included graphic sheets from the series "Azbuka", collages, bronze sculptures, and paintings. Several of the artist's works, including a sculpture dedicated to Henry David Thoreau, "The Bronze Age," and a collage titled "Measure Twice, Cut Once" about the delicate relationship to the revolutionary art of the past, are being presented to the public for the first time.
The exhibition's architecture, designed by PSCulture and Yulia Napolova, emphasizes the research and analytical nature of the project. With its diagonal corridors, ledges, and niches, the exhibition space resembles museum displays and containers for valuable artifacts, offering a fresh perspective on Belkin's artwork.