Art.Is.You.Ru

Art.Is.You.Ru is a series of short films
about modern Russian artists.

Background

"There is no contemporary art in Russia". You can often hear this, even from an educated person. In fact, people often just do not have time to go to exhibitions in big cities. And what happens in art outside of your city? Not many people have the opportunity to find out about this. Therefore, artists are often known only by specialists. It is very important to document the Russian art scene and show it to Russia and the world. In the 21st century, it is important to systematically collect not only artifacts, but also evidence of their creation and the history of their creator. Obviously, modern Russian art does not have enough support. I would like art to be not only in the exhibition hall, but also online.

Idea

We want to present contemporary Russian art to Russian and foreign viewers. Show different forms of modern art through the personality of artists and the surrounding world, which inspires them. Artists - people who came to art in different ways, with their own example prove that everyone can become an artist.

Films

We chose the format of short video in Russian with English subtitles as the most convenient for perception on the internet.
Each film is made in its unique style, suitable for this artist. We experiment with forms, trying to expand the genre of documentary cinema, borrowing techniques from video art, music videos and other forms of art.

Art.Is.Natalia

Sputnik

Art.Is.Natalia

Sputnik

Art.Is.Natalia.Screen

Screen

Art.Is.Natalia

Screen

Art.Is.Natalia

Portret

Art.Is.Natalia

Sankt-Peterburg

Art.Is.Natalia

Screen

"Space rocket" Natalia Fedorova, with her presence of interwoven whirlwinds in her space, is perhaps the most well-known media poet in Russia. Ultimate sensitivity to the text, living in the Word as such, the ability to constantly shift the language line - all this helps Fedorova tell the viewer very beautiful and very personal stories. Performances Fedorova - the constant calibration of the interaction between it (more broadly - a man in general) and "the machine to which you need to give a voice." It always seeks to create a kind of synthetic creation, combining sound, video, body, text. In her works Natalia Fedorova constructs a new era and crosses the border, behind which tomorrow is hiding.
Text: Olga Remneva, art expert

Art.Is.Ilya.

Ants

Art.Is.Ilya.

Skeleton

Art.Is.Ilya.

Animals with a pink head

Art.Is.Ilya.

Room

Art.Is.Ilya.

Creating

Art.Is.Ilya.

Lens

Art.Is.Ilya. Roots

Roots

Art.Is.Ilya. Portret

Portret

Art.Is.Ilya.

Hand and ant

Art.Is.Ilya.

City portret

Ilya Fedotov-Fedorov is a very subtle and attentive artist – towards himself and his art, and towards the world around him. Ilya's works are fundamentally non-technological and apolitical: they are about the other fragments of the world in which we live. His medium is comprised of elements that are taken from nature, and thanks to artistic reinterpretation, transformed into ordinary objects: strange entities living in a world of loneliness-as-isolation as purely aesthetic natural abstractions, and demiurgically (the will of the artist) organized living systems crowded with ants. But this is a world Fedotov-Fedorov is entirely removed from: his artistic traces are clearly discernible, but the artist seems to be intentionally absent from what he creates. The video above, which is the first in a series titled "Art.Is. ___", takes an intimate look into Fedotov-Fedorov's methods and philosophy.
Text: Olga Remneva, art expert

Art.Is.Marina

Room

Art.Is.Marina

Back up memory

Art.Is.Marina

Window

Art.Is.Marina

Carousel

Art.Is.Marina

Flowers

Art.Is.Marina

Dream

Art.Is.Marina

Workshop

Art.Is.Marina

Portret

Art.Is.Marina

City portret

Art.Is.Marina

City

Marina Rudenko either as a joke, or seriously declares that she is an infantilist artist. The borderline between laughter and seriousness is in general about Marina. She is a trickster, which throws a funny picture into the viewer. The audience laughs, and only after a while understands that something is wrong. What is more complicated, more ambiguous, sometimes even frankly sad. The principle "we all come from childhood" in the work of Rudenko is hyperbolized and distorted to the principle of "... remembering something that never happened," as the slogan of her personal exhibition of 2017 Blow Up Illusions says. Behind the image of Marina Rudenko's mallet, a good artist grows untiringly, able to speak with his generation in the language of this generation.
Text: Olga Remneva, art expert

Our Goals

To make Russian art great again:)

1

Reseach

All forms of contemporary art in Russia

2

Archiving

Document and archive for future generations

3

Popularization

Russian Contemporary Art and Media Support

Reviews

"Art.Is ___" is a series of video interviews with several contemporary artists that attempts to explore their identities: their childhood, their dreams, their favorite places, their dark thoughts, their anecdotes and most importantly, their reflections on their own art. Russia is a large country, and each city has its own hidden rules, its own means of communication, its own rhythms – all of which strongly influence the respective art. The "Art.Is ___" series attempts to provide a glimpse into the wide spectrum of contemporary Russian art; each artist from each city use their own techniques, foundations, and each have their own unique perspectives on the world. The organizers of the video series are not trying to claim that art is an open structure, but rather that the entrance to it can be various different sides. As the curators write in their bio, "You can be a biologist, an economist, a linguist or a metallurgist, but if you're an artist, you are an artist. Because it's a particular manner of thinking that comprises an artist. So maybe, 'Art.Is.____' you?"

Olga Remneva

Art&science expert, art historian, art therapist, PhD in cultural studies

The project "Art.Is.You.Ru" is, in fact, nothing more than a magic key that allows art lovers,
as well as to all people interested in the actual processes taking place in the sphere of national culture, to penetrate into the creative laboratory of the brightest
and interesting artists. The opportunity to learn what they think, what and how they live, what place in the modern world is assigned to them, and who is their audience, for whom and with what mood they create their art, is doubly important precisely because in our media space artists, unlike actors and singers, there is an undeservedly little place. In fact, nowhere else, except at the exhibition opening and exhibition finishes, or in rare interview texts, viewers have an opportunity to learn more about them, to "catch" the mood and draw a parallel between what they do and what they are. The possibility of this direct, purely human contact through interview films is extremely important both for the authors themselves, and for a wide audience, as well as specialists (owners of galleries, art critics, art critics). None even the best and detailed text is able to replace us with a visual, lively immersion in the artist's world, in the atmosphere of his working and thought processes, in the atmosphere of his studio. This experience is priceless.

Borisova Anna

Art critic

In our plans to create about
30 films all over the country.
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Publication

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Contacts:
julchernysheva@gmail.com