PROGRAM Olivie 9 september -11 october 2010 REAL ART Сurators: Bogdan Mamonov, Sergey Popov Vladimir Salnikov, Nina Kotel, Bogdan Mamonov, Sasha Leech, Boris Smelov, Nikolay Kasatkin, Ivan Lukinyh, Olga Chernyshova, Sasha Sokolov, Tasia Korotkova, Alexander Pogorgelsky, Katya Rogkova. Gruntovka 9-20 september 2010 GOLDEN POT Petr Maslov Curator - Bogdan Mamonov   3 july -1 august 2010 The Amnesia of Reality Curators – Yekaterina Roshchupkina, Anastasia Rodionova, Tatiana Parallel to the end of postmodernist approach in art interpretation, the first decade of the new millennium – the “noughties” - revealed us a new reality inspired by an abundance of information and methods of interpreting it. Simulation of reality in hyperspace lost power over consciousness and and “pushed” the individual into a different world. A surfeit of cyberspace encouraged the search for that same artificially created space, constructed according to the needs and opportunities that were convenient for the individual in a contemporary reality. Nor can we deny the differentiation of the stream of information that is directed at a particular, so-called “choice group”. Sub-cultural groups became particularly specific – from listeners of “heavy” rock to societies with various different creative forms of activity. Such groups exist in the metropolis independently of one another, and the individuals that make them up, while actually present in a contemporary reality, on the level of their consciousness inhabit different spaces. The individual in conditions of a dynamically developing world process is at that same post-modern “zero” level of consciousness that is based on a “collage”style of life (where he or she can simultaneously listen to music, read a magazine, have lunch, and talk with a friend). “The endless changing of channels with the turning-off of consciousness is also a product of ‘post-industrial’ hyperactivity, and a permanent feeling of unease, imposed on us by a fear of both unemployment, and by its alternative, in the Japanese style – control through constant pressure, ‘management by stress’,” as Richard Appignanesi wrote. Such contemporary amnesia arose out of the destruction of natural connections with the past. The events of recent history do not remain in the memory, and appear instead as “hyper-real”. Was there really a war in Iraq? Were the actions of war, the explosions and ranks of refugees, more real than the events of a computer war game, taking place during the viewing of television news reports? The detachment from reality is the most characteristic problem of modernity. With the rise in his standards of living man has freed himself from never-ending uncertainty and stress: there is no longer the need to think about how to feed and defend himself. The generation of the “noughties” has grown up in abundance. We do not think about survival, but about obtaining the latest gadgets. The characters in these photographic works are young people who are exhausted by their entertainments, spoiled by excess and idleness - and not thinking of the past, the present, and the future. They are the lost, the bewildered. Look them in the eyes. We are happy to invite you to the opening of the exhibition on July 3 at 4 p.m.