Maxim Ksuta

russian artist, contemporary art, sculpture, installation, photography

Category: Art projects

Blockchain

Photo by Mariya Solonetskaya & Alisia Prokhorova … My sculpture, “Blockchain,” has recently moved to the town of Chekhov.

New group exhibition – Artist and text

New group exhibition – “Artist and text”, Exhibition halls Rosizo

New object – “River of history” in The State Tretyakov gallery

Exhibition “The Grand Duchy. Treasures of the Vladimir-Suzdal Land” is dedicated to the millennium anniversary of the first annalistic mention of the city of Suzdal, which will be celebrated in 2024.

Basel Art Center – “X-Nowness”

From the series – “Polaroid Dreams”

Photo by Yana Tibben

Voskhod Gallery, OBDN Gallery and Art Catch Gallery present ‘X-Nowness’, a collective exhibition supported by Voices of Culture, which opens at Basel Art Center on June 16th.

The project brings together 38 contemporary artists and art groups, and offers a vision on the concept of time and the so-called ‘nowness’ — the quality or state of existing or occurring in or belonging to the present time. 

‘Time is not linear and doesn’t consist of discrete physical points. Rather, it is perceived as a frightening shift, chasing itself, at times running faster or on the contrary falling behind. Nowness itself is followed by its own ghost, some x-unknown. X-nowness can be represented as an innumerable diversity of variations of reality, an area inhabited by ghosts and not linked to any time. This invisible schism is actually a dynamic link between the past and the present, that is felt and exposed by the artists in the physical world. Their artworks exist temporally, as a glimmer between the past and the future, between the reality and the allegories for the reality’ (by Dasha Yartseva) 

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16 — 22 June 2022

Basel Art Center

New solo exhibitioin in Kultproekt gallery (CUBE), Moscow – “Steel life”


The first was his retrospective at the Tate Modern, where I was introduced to his work. The second, held at the Dulwich Picture Gallery, struck me with an unexpected juxtaposition of two seemingly very different artists – Twombly and Nicolas Poussin. Reflections on the nature of abstraction and the creative phenomenon of this enigmatic but undoubtedly great abstract artist haunted me for a long time and eventually resulted in this project.

The theme of searching for images in the surrounding world has interested me for a long time. However, in this case, I was intrigued by finding and photographing natural objects that spontaneously formed into natural abstractions. In this case, I considered photography as a tool for creating works that border on graphics, and even painting. Looking at the developed slides, I noticed that almost all the frames in this series clearly resemble the abstract compositions of Cy Twombly! This discovery inspired me to search for and select works by Twombly that are close to my photographs in mood and composition.

The second part of the project, which partly determined its title, is inspired by the works and creativity of the American artist Clifford Still.

His style was defined by the outstanding critic Clement Greenberg as works of “color field.” This direction can be considered as a kind of abstract expressionism, although sometimes it is classified as a kind of minimalism.

Still is considered one of the outstanding color field artists – his non-figurative paintings are largely concerned with the juxtaposition of different colors and surfaces. His uneven bursts of color create the impression that one layer of color has been “peeled” off the painting, revealing the colors underneath. The paintings are reminiscent of stalactites and primitive caves. Still’s compositions are irregular, jagged, and have a heavy, pitted texture and a sharp contrast of surface.

The works of these artists are united by the theme of spontaneity, “childishness,” and meditation in action, which makes them akin to the masters of Zen Buddhism, who found a balanced state of mind in contemplating nature.

Maxim Ksuta.

В свое время мне довелось побывать на двух больших выставках американского художника Сая Туомбли. Первая была его ретроспективой в Tate Modern, на которой я познакомился с его творчеством, а вторая, проходившая в Dulwich Picture Gallery, поразила меня неожиданным сопоставлением двух казалось бы совершенно разных художников – Туомбли и Николя Пуссена. Размышления о природе абстракции и творческом феномене этого загадочного, но безусловно великого абстрактного художника долгое время не оставляли меня и со временем вылились в этот проект.

Тема поиска образов в окружающем мире интересует меня уже долгое время, но в данном случае мне было интересно найти и сфотографировать природные объекты, стихийно (спонтанно) сложившиеся в естественные абстракции. Фотографию в данном случае я рассматривал как инструмент для создания работ, пограничных с графикой, и даже живописью. Рассматривая отснятые слайды, я заметил, что практически все кадры из этой серии явно напоминают абстрактные композиции Сая Туомбли! Это открытие вдохновило меня на поиск и отбор работ Туомбли, близких моим фотографиям по настроению и композиции.

Вторая часть проекта, отчасти определившая его название, вдохновлена работами и творчеством американского художника – Клиффорда Стилла.
Его манера была определена выдающимся критиком Климентом Гринбергом, как произведения «цветового поля». Это направление можно рассматривать как разновидность абстрактного экспрессионизма, хотя иногда его классифицируют как род минимализма.
Стилл считается одним из выдающихся художников цветового поля — его нефигуративные картины во многом связаны с сопоставлением разных цветов и поверхностей. Его неровные вспышки цвета создают впечатление, что один слой цвета был «отодран» от картины, показывая цвета под ним. Картины напоминают сталактиты и первобытные пещеры. Композиции Стилла нестандартны, зазубренны и имеют изрытую тяжёлую текстуру и резким контрастом поверхности.
Работы этих художников объединены темой спонтанности, «детскости», медитатции в действии, что роднит их с мастерами дзен буддизма, которые находили равновесное состояние ума в созерцании природы.
Максим Ксута.

New exhibition – At the Fringes

At the Fringes

At the Fringes

At the Fringes

At the Fringes is an exhibition organized by the Department of Research Arts, a center for artistic research projects focused on the Russian territory. This new project shows the life at the fringes and in the border territories of Russia, where fringes are not exclusively state borders but also natural boundaries, land areas, divides and limits of space.

Areas that have been historically considered “remote”, “disconnected,” “isolated,” become especially interesting in today’s society as the means of communication have been organically integrated into the human ecosystem and transformed our perception of space. The fringes are closer than ever now but still remain somewhat distant. These can be spaces well within the country’s landmass as well as border territories.

Cohesiveness of space, in Russia and globally, is not uniform which produces modern forms of geographic inequality. The non-uniformity can be observed as some parts of the country are better known while others remain “uncharted territories”; the project takes this disparity as its starting point.

The exhibition opens with documentary projects where each presents an interpretation of archival or documentary records (photographs, official documents, sketches, field notes, video) covering a fringe region.

A stand-alone part of the project is its “permanent exposition.” It comprises painting and photography that recreate the image of a fringe with varying degrees of visual approximation. Complementing it, there is a library section that offers insights into the history of the Russian space and its landmark social, philosophical and artistic concepts.

In the third part of the exposition, the acoustic experience is just as important as the visual. The audience is immersed into the fringe space through installations and objects.

The project is supported by the Presidential Grants Foundation.

Artists
Evgeniya Buravleva
Sofya Gavrilova
Alexander Gronsky
Maria Gruzdeva
Olga Davydova
ZAPOVEDNIK research group
Elizaveta Konovalova
Taisia Korotkova
Alexey Korsi
Maxim Ksuta
Anton Kuznetsov
Alexander Morozov
Ivan Napreenko
Valeri Nistratov
Sergey Novikov
Nikolay Onischenko
Pavel Otdelnov
Alexander Povzner
Egor Plotnikov
Sergei Prokofiev
Igor Samolet
Maria Safronova
Maxim Sher
Natasha Timofeeeva

New project

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New group exhibition -“CONTEXT OF THE MEDIUM” CultProekt Gallery 09112017

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“New work” – 23072017

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New group exhibition -“Structures Fractals” CultProekt Gallery 04052017

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http://kultproekt.ru/proekti/66102052017123728963/