OPUS MAGNUM
March 1997

Efimov Vladislav, Chernyshov Aristarkh

video installation

curator Nina Zaretskaya

The project demonstrates synthesis of new technologies and trends of post-industrial romanticism in actual art.

DESCRIPTION:
Dark room (3x5m), entering which a visitor can see two TV sets, broadcasting videos specially made: on one of them is a rotating animal skull placed inside a laboratory retort, while on the other one (a bigger one)black and red flowers are growing in a similar retort, as if taking a live energy out of the dead body from the first retort. The TV sets stand on the "surgical tables", connected with one another by twisted black plastic tubes. On the wall behind the TV sets video images of burning roses are being projected. In front of the TV sets there is a circle, 125 cm in diameter, consisting of the black and white photos (23 pieces, 16,5x20 cm each) of some strange objects of metaphysical character. In the center of the circle there is a white round screen, 86 cm in diameter, on which the video image of a rotating man is being projected. (1997, Art Moscow’97; 1998, Art Forum Berlin)

The site has been created with the assistance of the "Open Society Institute" (Soros Foundation). Russia