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Espacio Minimo: SERGEY BRATKOV Male Games - 19 Mar 2010 to 1 Apr 2010 Current Exhibition |
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Sergey Bratkov - Male Games
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SERGEY BRATKOV Male Games February 19th to April 1st, 2010 Private View: Friday, February 19, at 20:00 An image from Misanthrope, SERGEY BRATKOV�s previous exhibition in this gallery, is his starting point for new work in which he depict his native Ukraine. Thsi new work is what makes up Male Games, his third exhibition at Espacio Minimo. The exhibition shows a selection of large format panoramic photographs in the gallery�s first room, with the remaining images in the series being projected in the basement room. Through these images BRATKOV performs a narrative journey through contemporary Ukraine, capturing the country�s unusual and surreal beauty with no recourse to digital manipulation, thus showing the real transformation it has gone through in recent years. With this work the artists shows the cultural and economic changes that have occurred in Ukraine. Thorugh personal stories, and without abandoning his previous works� characteristic sense of humour, he documents its specific reality and the peculiarity of its inhabitants. The show is completed with a projection in the gallery�s main space of the video Endless War, a powerful metaphor of the other male �game� which, via an endless video loop, the artist uses to make a powerful political comment. The emptiness of the soldiers� helmets, loudly hitting against the floor, makes evident the absence of human forms, giving the images a simultaneous feeling of nostalgia and absurdity. As is the norm with BRATKOV�s work his reflections about social structures, ever-changing in a transitive country like Ukraine, create a provocative body of socially engaged work. SERGEY BRATKOV (Kharkov, Ukraine, 1960) Lives and works in Moscow. From 1970 to 1978 he studied at Repin Art College in Kharkov, and from 1978 to 1983 he attended the Polytechnical Academy in the same city. From 1994 to 1997 he was a part of the Fast Reaction Group along with Boris Mikhailov, Vita Mikhailova and Sergey Solonsky. He represented Russia in the 50th and 52nd Venice Bienale, at the 25th Sao Paulo Bienal, at Manifesta 5 in San Sebastian, and at the first two Bienals in Moscow. He has had solo shows at important museums and public institutions such as Kunstverein Rosenheim in Rosenheim (Germany, 2002), Centre for Contemporary Art in Kiev (Ukraine, 2003), S.M.A.K. Museum de Gante (Belgium, 2005), Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow (Russia, 2006), Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead (United Kingdom, 2007), Fotomuseum Winterthur in Winterthur (Switzerland, 2008) and Pinchuk Art Centre in Kiev (Ukraine, 2010) as well as being part of distinguished collective shows in museums, institutions, and art centre across the world. His work is included in the collections of MuKKA Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp (Belgium), Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb (Croatia), Museum of Photography in Boston (U.S.A.), Zimmerli Art Museu in New Brunswick, New Jersey (U.S.A.), Museum of Contemporary Art in Milwaukee (U.S.A.), S.M.A.K. Museum of Contemporary Art de Gante (Belgiuim), MARTa Herford Museum of Contemporary Art in Herford (Germany), Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporanea in Santiago de Compostela (Spain), Pinchuk Art Centre in Kiev (Ukraine) or Ekaterina Fundation in Mosc� (Russia), amongst other important public collections. Sergey Bratkov .- Male Games 19 Feb. 2010 / 01 Abr. 2010 Una imagen de su anterior exposici�n en esta galer�a, Misanthrope, es el punto de partida del trabajo actual que SERGEY BRATKOV ha realizado sobre su tierra natal, Ucrania, y del que forman parte las obras de Male Games, su tercera exposici�n individual en Espacio M�nimo. La exposici�n muestra un conjunto de fotograf�as panor�micas de gran formato expuestas en la primera sala de la galer�a, y el resto de las que conforman la totalidad de la serie proyectadas en la sala del s�tano, a trav�s de las cuales BRATKOV realiza un recorrido narrativo por la Ucrania contempor�nea logrando capturar la inusual y surreal belleza del pa�s, sin la necesidad de recurrir para ello a la manipulaci�n digital, mostrando a trav�s de esas im�genes la transformaci�n real que ha experimentado en los �ltimos a�os. El artista muestra en este trabajo el cambio cultural y econ�mico de Ucrania a trav�s de historias personales que, sin abandonar el peculiar sentido del humor que caracteriza gran parte de su trabajo anterior, documentan su singular realidad y la peculiaridad de sus habitantes. La exposici�n se completa con la proyecci�n en la sala principal de la galer�a del v�deo Endless War, poderosa met�fora de otro �juego� masculino, en el que, a trav�s de un interminable loop el artista realiza un poderoso comentario pol�tico. El vac�o de los cascos de los reclutas, golpeando ruidosamente el suelo, hace patente la ausencia de figuras humanas, otorgando de este modo un tinte nost�lgico a la vez que absurdo a las im�genes. Como es habitual en su trayectoria, BRATKOV realiza en estas obras una comprometida reflexi�n sobre las estructuras sociales, cambiantes en un pa�s en transici�n como Ucrania, creando un provocativo trabajo socialmente comprometido. SERGEY BRATKOV (Kharkov, Ucrania, 1960) vive y trabaja en Mosc�. De 1970 a 1978 realiz� estudios en el Repin Art College de Kharkov y de 1978 a 1983 en la Polytechnical Academy de la misma ciudad. Desde 1994 a 1997 perteneci� al Fast Reaction Group junto a Boris Mikhailov, Vita Mikhailova y Seregey Solonsky. Ha representado a Rusia en la 50 y la 52 edici�n de la Bienal de Venecia, en la 25 Bienal de la Sao Paulo, en la Manifesta 5 en San Sebasti�n y en la primera y segunda Bienal de Mosc�. Ha tenido exposiciones individuales en importantes museos e instituciones p�blicas como Kunstverein Rosenheim en Rosenheim (Alemania, 2002), Centre for Contemporary Art en Kiev (Ucrania, 2003), S.M.A.K. Museum de Gante (B�lgica, 2005), Museum of Contemporary Art de Mosc� (Rusia, 2006), Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art de Gateshead (Reino Unido, 2007), Fotomuseum Winterthur en Winterthur (Suiza, 2008) o Pinchuk Art Centre en Kiev (Ucrania, 2010) y destacadas muestras colectivas en museos, instituciones y centros de arte de diferentes pa�ses. Su obra est� representada, en MuKKA Museum of Contemporary Art de Amberes (B�lgica), Museum of Contemporary Art de Zagreb (Croacia), Museum of Photography de Boston (U.S.A.), Zimmerli Art Museu, de New Brunswick, New Jersey (U.S.A.), Museum of Contemporary Art de Milwaukee (U.S.A.), S.M.A.K. Museum of Contemporary Art de Gante (B�lgica), MARTa Herford Museum of Contemporary Art de Herford (Alemania), Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporanea de Santiago de Compostela (Espa�a), Pinchuk Art Centre de Kiev (Ucrania) o Ekaterina Fundation de Mosc� (Rusia), entre importantes colecciones p�blicas. |
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