Fresco of Vasilisa
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Maxim Ksuta
russian artist, contemporary art, sculpture, installation, photography
Tag: art projects
June 17, 2013
Piranesi in Belarus
Halshany Castle
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The ruins of Halshany Castle.
Halshany or Holszany Castle (Belarusian: Гальшанскі замак) is the ruined residence of the Sapieha magnate family in Halshany, Hrodna Voblast, Belarus. It was erected in the early 17th century in place of an older seat of the Holszanski princely family.
Also known as the Black Castle (although it is built of red brick), the residence formerly rivaled Mir Castle as the most elegant private château of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The name Black Castle in fact originally applies to a fictional building from a book by Uladzimir Karatkievich, which was loosely based on Halshany Castle.
The castle was devastated by the invading Swedes in 1704 and, due to financial stress experienced by the Sapiehas in the wake of the Domestic War, has never been restored. After Sapiehas’ immigration to France, the castle was passed to Russian landlord Gorbanyov. In 1880, he had the castles’ towers pulled down and made money by selling the bricks.
Currently, the castle continues to crumble away. An annual tournament is held near its walls each summer.
May 13, 2013
Dialogue With Technogeneous Reality – Samara Art Centre
t HD audio-video-installation, Triumph gallery, Moscow 2013
Program: [Context of the visual]
Curators: [Vitaly Patsyukov], [Aliya Berdigaliyeva]
Coordinator: [Maria Punina]
Participants: [Leonid Tishkov], [Vladimir Tarasov], [Anna Ermolayeva], [Marina Chernikova], [Vladislav Efimov], [Vladimir Martynov], [Aristarkh Chernyshev], Dziga Vertov, Fernand Léger, Dudley Murphy, [Mikhail Tsekhanovsky], [Boris Yurtsev], [AES+F group], [Maxim Ksuta], [Nelya and Roman Korzhov], [Alexander Zaytsev], [Vladimir Logutov], [Social Adaptation group]
Organizers: NCCA Volga Branch, Samara Regional Public Charity Fund “Contemporary Art Centre”, ART-CENTRE Gallery SAMARA-CENTRE Ltd.
With the support of: RUSS OUTDOOR, VICTORYA Gallery, Moscow State Cinema Museum, XL Gallery, Triumph Gallery, Samara Regional Art Museum
Opening: May, 11, 7 pm
Place: Samara Art Centre (90, Michurina, Samara, Russia)
Coontacts: samara-center.ru/artcenter, +7 (846) 212-03-80, +7 (927) 604-33-05
This exhibition project, built on rare 1930s film footage and works by prominent contemporary artists, poses questions about the relationship of humans with man-made reality and the possibilities of self-identification through technology and production. Today, the humans’ attitude towards technology is consumerist. Perhaps it is because of the lack of direct contact with machines of production that the postindustrial man loses his positive attitude not only towards the mass-produced objects but also his own life which, much like machines and technology, is not under his control any longer.
May 4, 2013
Trees Reconstruction
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April 12, 2013
ГОСЗАКАЗ/GOSZAKAZ/Pechersky Gallery/Winzavod
Overcoming the Space
In my project, communication is a part of the space-time continuum. I know for sure that space and time is a single construct which is called “matter”. From ancient times mankind aims to embody the notion of time: Mexican and Egyptian pyramids are immense and incredible in their excellence, and these pieces of art will have a long life within the history. My “Teleports” are rather objects of contemporary art, although I have been thinking a lot about the practical side of the project.
Interactive spacebridges with Liquid Crystal Displays broadcast the day stream of other world capitals – London, Rome, Berlin, Paris and others – with their unique rhythms and drawings of life. The main function of such objects is social communication. Objects are equipped with high-quality HD panoramic video cameras which enables the passers-by to greet citizens of other cities, to wave their hands, to give a wink, etc.
“Teleports” are objects for communication, but unlike iPad they are public, not individual. These are the windows to the “different reality” with its different life flow, which carry a user through space and expand its conscious in the right direction – direction of consolidation of the humanity as a whole, unification of it as a whole and its unit, a particular human individual. Not only “Teleports” would be of interest for citizens, but, I believe, they would become a true attraction for them.
Maxim Ksuta
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Video | April 8, 2013
Teleport
Teleport from maxmaxovich on Vimeo.
Teleports in process
Maxim Ksuta & Mikhail Kiselev – Pechersky Gallery – Vinzavod
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