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The Ural – “The Area to Explore”

The Ural is the region that rapidly overcomes its recent informational and socio-cultural isolation. This complex and controversial process has begun since mid-1980s, during the period of acute social reassessment of the soviet system in Russia. It is not surprising that exactly at this period of «cultural liberation» artistic scene of the region developed an active interest in the new forms of aesthetic: conceptualism, Soviet Pop Art (Sots art), elements of Pop art and diverse variations of postmodernism. The Yekaterinburg Gallery of Modern Art (Sinara Art Gallery) was one of the first in Russia to pay attention to this phenomenon, referred to as «Ural Transavantgarde». The Gallery took the initiative in collecting the artworks of the most influential representatives of this remarkable aesthetic phenomenon. Among the leaders of this artistic movement are Nikolay Fedoreev, Valery D’yachenko, Vladimir Zhukov, Valery Goncharov, Igor Shurov. They were the first in the Ural to create art groups and to initiate exhibitions «free of jury». The art project «The Ural – “The Area to Explore» presents the artworks of distinct styles created by the Ural artists of different generations. All these pieces, however, convey common artistic principles, which are oriented on the development of new areas in art and on overcoming of the ideological stereotypes and aesthetic clichés.

This exceptional and unique exhibition at D10 Art Space, propose to discover this no conformist artists in collaboration with Sinara Art Gallery.

E. Shipitsina The Association of art critics AIS-AICA.