mokitxebi samshoblodan, Tbilisi

Composition with Stalin

The Soviet - Russian Avantgarde in drawings

by Nugzari Natenadze

 
A.Akhmatova

 
Kamo

 
V. Mayakovsky

 
M.Tsvetaeva

 
S. Yesenin

 

Stalin

 
Alexander Puschkin

21x29,7 cm, pencil on paper


You can buy each drawing for USD 100 - all 7 drawings together for USD 500
Contact: info@artclubcaucasus.net


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WHITE TWRRITORY 3rd phase

we had the 3rd phase (1st was 2 find the geographicaly the center of Caucasus, 2nd was the show about and in the 3rd who r in the center, which kind of aborigens:)), of this project at Rusiko's. u can see Stalin with fan make up; this thematic, we r interesting in "Stalin and fan attitude" in this case and in generaly....

Artists, removing the Stalin Monument in Gori ? What do you think ?

From Art Club Caucasus works by various artists

There is a new discussion going on in Georgia to remove the Stalin monument in his home town Gori from the main place of the town. A related article which advocates the clearance of the Soviet leader you can find on Georgia Today here: "Bidding goodbye to Stalin’s heavy hand on Georgian psyche"

While I noticed many voices off the younger Georgians supporting the removal at sites like Facebook of course many other and often older Gori inhabitants do not like that idea very much.

From Art Club Caucasus works by various artists

Here is a recent stencil seen on a wall in Rustavi, probably by a young sprayer/artist. Is this more a critic or a support or just a zero statement with no special meaning ?

From Art Club Caucasus works by various artists

Before we pull it, are there any questions we should ask us before ? Like some as these:

- Is there a better thing than Stalin to be put in the center of Gori, if yes, what ?

- Should it get removed and destroyed (shipped as scrap to Turkey or China) or just replaced to another location ?

- Who was the artist of that sculpture/ensemble ? Should the artist have a decision on this question ?

- Wouldn't somehow removing Stalin in Gori also remove the memory about the Millions of his Victims ?

- Was the Stalin phenomena ever really seriously researched and analyzed yet ? Where can I read about it ?

- Would the removal in 100 years possibly regretted ?

- What should be placed there after the cleansing ?

- Should/could other Stalin monuments throughout Georgia remain or replaced ?

and the most important question to you ARTIST could be

what should be put on Stalin's place in the center of Gori ?

From Art Club Caucasus works by various artists

Do you have other question regarding Stalins removal ? --> Comment !

See the Poll in the Sidebar as well

EXHIBITION: Jörg Herold - Der Dokumentararchäologe im Land der beschleunigten Folklore (EIGEN+ART, Berlin)

January 24 2009 - March 21 2009
TODAY: opening January 24 2009
5 - 9pm

I made two art-documentary travels through the South Caucasus with the german artist Jörg Herold in the last times. Now you can visiting a summary of this work in Berlin. Something could you see in the last year in Leipzig and Schwerin. It will be following a catalog or better an art documentary of this art travels. (Ralph Hälbig)


In his function as a "documentation - archaeologist" as Jörg Herold calls himself, he follows the mechanism of remembrance, securing, saving, investigation and research in his work progress. As a result of traveling into real and imagined memories emerge actions, films, installations, and drawings, which are holding the focus on cultural commemoration and historical cross-references.
On the basis of 30 motives, ethnographical as well as ethnological templates and historical documents like travel reports, Jörg Herold is questioning through a virtual created “ land of accelerated folklore" the strange and unknown with a critical view of today. The installations, which arise out of that background, combine the media painting, sculpture and movie. Thereby the Petersburger Style of hanging the canvas in the gallery will be broken open by stalactites and a couple mountain ranges. The archaic appearing massif is presented on wooden brackets and shows amongst others the Ararat, Holy Mountain of the Armenians the disembarkment point of Noah's Ark.
In the front part of the exhibition, where his work “Vitrinensturz" is presented, Jörg Herold comments on the skull aesthetic of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, a Professor in Göttingen/ Germany from the 19th century.
Based on his favorite skull of a Georgian woman, Blumenbach assigned to the central-Europeans a preferred, high-class position.
In the centre of the first room the sculpture "Stalins Rache" is suspended from the ceiling that inherits the name of one of the most notorious dictators in our history. The pasty work on canvas "Fadenhalter" hangs at the wall behind the sculpture and refers to the scripts of "Heimweh" by Jung Stilling. This publication came along with numerous German emigrants in the 18th century and describes the second future of Christi in Solyma in the Caucasus. In this comparison Jörg Herold refers to different forms of identity in a local and global context, aspect of violence and its consequence on nature and landscapes.
The centric mission in the work of a documentary archaeologist is to depict the possibilities of the memory for the future and to accentuate the conflict between aesthetic and ethic in presentation.
The film "Steinmeiers Erben" that is installed in the second room of the exhibition thematizes the recent journeys of Walter Steinmeier, the foreign minister of Germany, that give him an official view of the situation in European peripheral regions. Therefore the film builds a bridge to the installation "Des Nachbars Zaun" that is placed at the left wall at the first room and which represents the boundary shift into the east.
Jörg Herold aspires as a witness to history to dilute conserved time for a short moment by using media installations, painting, sculpture and film. Travelogues cut in fine filaments float out of the fence, besides a whole that dismantles the texture of the wall and even the sequence of the works on canvas is fractured by the roughness of the piled up mountains. Therefore the recorded gets in motion and the installation becomes a liquid concentrate of memories for the documentary archaeologist on his journey to the country of speeded folklore.

in german >>>

	Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig/Berlin
	Gerd Harry Lybke Geschäftsführung/Partner: Kerstin Wahala
Die naechste Ausstellung eroeffnet in Leipzig mit Ricarda Roggan am 17. Januar 2009. In Berlin eroeffnet Joerg Herold am 24. Januar 2009.

Auguststrasse 26
D - 10117 Berlin
Phone.: +49.30.280 6605.
Fax: +49.30.280 6616.
mail to: berlin@eigen-art.com

Tuesday - Saturday 11am - 6pm

www.eigen-art.com

More photos and documentaries cominng soon here in georgien.blogspot.com.

Stalin by Nikolai

Stalin, originally uploaded by hvala23.

via Flickr I found this amazing set of works by Nikolai, I'll post from time to time some more of his lino cuts and wood cuts. Very strong, long time not seen, great, koroche, very good and great stuff, check it out at http://www.flickr.com/photos/hvala23/sets/72157603686889609/

and don't forget to write some comments about what do you like and if in case what not

Stalin+Hugo Schmeisser

stalin+hugo schmeisser, originally uploaded by grijsz.

Hans Heiner Buhr + Graf Oto von Rubin

The Stalin Portrait is for sale

EUR 250.00