DA!STORE

DA!STORE PRESENTS THE REGIONAL ART-SCENE: THE BRIGHTEST, MOST PERSPECTIVE AND YOUNG ARTISTS. THE PROJECT COMBINES CURATED STATEMENTS: PETR BELIY (SAINT-PETERSBURG), OLEG USTINOV (ROSTOV-ON-DON) AND ALEXANDER TSIKARISHVILI WITH NESTOR ENGELKE (SAINT-PETERSBURG).

 

  • Petr Beliy presents the exposition diptych Eros vs Thanatos. In the first room Necrocinema takes place — where the works of Vladimir Kustov, Alyona Petit, Darya Pravda, Sergei Savelyev and Natasha Kharabova are shown in the trembling light of Evgeny Yufit’s film Daddy, Father Frost is Dead. The Second room brings together artists working in the “trash baroque” aesthetics: Kirill Akulinichev, Sveta Isaeva, Vlad Kulkov and Alexander Shishkin-Hokusai.

     

  • The exposition depicts the paradox of marginal culture, where dark often turns out to be light, and light appears dark....

    The exposition depicts the paradox of marginal culture, where dark often turns out to be light, and light appears dark. The vital aesthetic of trash decadence gets into single combat with the ascetic black-and-white language of Yufit’s film facing ghost-like pictures shimmering in its light.

    Petr Beliy

  • Oleg Ustinov presents a major project Entrance To The Underground Pass. The spirit and architecture of the exposition are inspired by the underground passes in Rostov-on-Don, famous for their unique soviet mosaics decoration. Nine Artists: Anna Afonina, Ivan Gorshkov, Mikhail Dolyanovsky, Zina Isupova, Vladimir Kartashov, Ilya Kolesnikov, Egor Fedorichev, Leonid Tskhe and Anna Cherepanova — created works specifically for the project. They are united by the monumentality of the forms and the political attitude towards ceramic tiles.

  • There are unique large-scale mosaic pannos in the several underground passes of Rostov-on-Don. Loved by locals, they arouse great interest...

    There are unique large-scale mosaic pannos in the several underground passes of Rostov-on-Don. Loved by locals, they arouse great interest among the city guests. 

    After the controversial “reconstruction” of one of the underpasses in 2016, activists achieved a change in the status of the underpasses: part of them became objects of cultural heritage. Today, at the time of project preparation, trading rows were dismantled in the underground passes and previously closed mosaics became available. I invited several artists to create works, entering at various levels into a dialogue with the panels from this underpass. My choice fell on young artists who experiment with the medium of painting, who tend to build multi-figure compositions and work with large formats. 

     

    Oleg Ustinov

     

  • The curatorial duo of Alexander Tsikarishvili and Nestor Engelke presents new trends in contemporary art directly from the independent art forges of St. Petersburg: prototyping, ceramics, anti-ceramics, small-scale sculptures, idols, amulets, domovina, ancient Russian forest. Somewhere in the forest stands a table with ceramic food and splatters a wine fountain. Everything is twisted into a mystical wooden labyrinth, in which you should definitely get lost. The project involves artists Anna Andrzhievskaya, Evgeny Butenko, Alisa Gvozdeva, Grecht, Petr Dyakov, Vadim Kondakov, Tatiana Kondratenko, Anton Levin, Vova Lilo, Vadim Mikhailov, Semyon Motolyanets, Ilya Ovsyannikov, Igor Plotnikov, Konstantin von Riben, Vladimir S, Vera Svetlova, Sasha Stukanova, Antonina Fathullina, Fedor Hiroshige, Oleg Khmelev, Alexander and Lisa Tsikarishvili, Leonid Tskhe, Ivan Chemakin, Tatiana Chernomordova, Lukas Shvetsov, Nestor Engelke, KAROZICH (Marfa Ragimova, Natasha Grazhdankina), Deus ExCavator (Kerim Ragimov, Petr Shvetsov).

     

  • In this project, we will try to formulate why porridge in Ancient Russia had a ritual and mystical nature. Alexander...

    In this project, we will try to formulate why porridge in Ancient Russia had a ritual and mystical nature.

     

     Alexander Tsikarishvili and Nestor Engelke

     

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