No. 1 (2021): ART INNOVATION
The first issue of Art Innovation covers a variety of questions in art through the last 100 years.
The number opens with the article by Anatolii Rykov about Salvador Dali. The author showed the way Dali deconstructed the Old Masters’ art, which revealed the hidden aspects of their work. The study reveals new Dali as a critical character in art history.
The modernist male gaze on female body in Surrealist photography is disassembled by Ida Shik. Using the example of Paul Eluard and Man Ray’s piece Facile, the author demonstrated how the fetishised image of ideal woman-muse and woman-pleasure was made.
The new trends after modernist art follow. Maria Shramova described the aesthetics of New Brutalism, developed by the artists from the Independent Group under the influence of photography. It was ‘as found’ concept, aimed at revealing the likeness of unrelated items.
The matters of British postmodern and Russian contemporary art are presented in the article by Nataliya Shchetinina. The author described the methods used by Damien Hirst and Valeria Abendroth to debunk myths about medicine, whether it is a utopian immortality project or a scary sight of a surgery.
The Academic Studies section ends with Elizaveta Rubantseva’s material. For the first time, this work represents an analysis of strategies by four major Russian museums in organizing regional museum projects. They are: The State Hermitage Museum, The State Tretyakov Gallery, The State Russian Museum, and The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts.
Georgii Sokolov touches on the feminist discourse in his review on the book Gender in Soviet Unofficial Art by Olesia Avramenko. The reviewer gave detailed description of the book, its strong and weak points.
In the first issue, we introduce the Artist’s Vision section. There the artists share their projects and insights. A Brazilian photographer and art curator Tom Lisboa talks about inspiration by an artist Rosângela Rennó. Influenced by her art, he demonstrates the way the photography and montage techniques break the code of reality releasing the philosophical value of any thing. Even of a toy camera.
The first number of Art Innovation is closed by an Italian artist Marco Waldis. In his photo series, he catches non-palpable but strong links between people, explaining their similarities by the quantum entanglement. The photo project Entanglement puts the scientific approach in art on a new level – the level, where quantum mechanics merges with an artist’s vision.
