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CataClysms in Scotland with gb_concept. Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland. 2016. 

“CataClysms” is based on the occasionally found method of creating images with the help of the enema and acrylic paint and the impressions from the scandalous speech by Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev at the exhibition of the avant-garde artists at Manezh on 1 December 1962.  The picture is made with water on textile or silk; with the help of enema and the acrylic paint the picture becomes visible.  As a result, what appears is always a surprise for the artist and for the audience.  This is the act of painting, the act of painting that converts into a performance.

"...Does it evoke any feeling?  I want to spit!  These are the feelings evoked.  We evaluate our conditions as good.  But there is also a lot of trash.  A lot!  We have to clean!  We cannot just pass by, you know, like an observer, you know, as if a person is standing on the bank of the river and observing:  here, it is swimming, which is good and the shit swims.  And he is completely indifferent since this is the flow!"


Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev at the exhibition of the avant-garde artists at Manezh on 1 December 1962, Moscow. (phonogram)
 
 

 © 2018 by Evgeny Boikov

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