Aidan Gallery
| Aidan Gallery, founded in 1992, is one of the first private Moscow galleries. Its owner, Aidan Salakhova, has been among those who established "The 1st Gallery", actually the first private Moscow gallery of contemporary art. Aidan Gallery's main interests in contemporary art is a paradoxical combination of such trends as post-conceptualism and neo-classicism. The Gallery politics is to collaborate with artists who apply to the traditional notion of "beauty" that is based, however, on the aesthetics of 20th century art. The Gallery and artists that follow its philosophy aspire to revive traditional visuality. They are preoccupied by pure aesthetic problems and ignore fashionable but transient themes. Aidan Gallery exhibits art works that are intellectually advanced, formally elaborated and combine cool aestheticism and superficial ease. The Gallery artists strive to reach such a visual perfection that their pieces look sometimes like a needlework, but are, at the same time, inflated with senses and connotations. Being principally devoted to traditional conservative art techniques, the artists resist seduction of the new technologies, call it in question and subject to ironical analysis, rather preferring to imitate a computer stylistic by means of paint and brush than to use any electronic media. Aidan Gallery artists' work can be characterized in three words - Style, Mastership and Aesthetic perfection. | ||||
| EXHIBITS 1998 December Rauf Mamedov. «The Lord's supper» November Magnus von Plessen «Emigration» October Tatjana Panova «Life is stronger» September Yegor Ostrov «Seven lines on dime» June Anna Marimont «Amour and Psihea» May Dmitrij Kozir «Sentimental enthomology» April «Observation» Project for Photobiennale ’98. Manege. Moscow Timur Novikov. «Emperors portraits» March Olga Tobreluts «Family’s portrait» February Vladimir Kolesnikov, Dmitrij Kochanovich «School X» January Shutov Sergei «Luna 2» February – May «Russian landscape painting at the end of XX century». Gallery «Russe de centre». Geneva. Switzerland. 1997 December Michail Rosanov «Inscriptions» October Michail Ukhov (1972 – 1997) «Retrospective» July «I’m stepping along Moscow» project for Moscow Forum of art initiatives. So-curator E.Kouprina. Malij Manege. Moscow «Your own cinema» project for Moscow International cinema festival. Co-curator E.Kouprina . «Kodak – cinema world». Moscow June Maxim Ksuta «Love, dance, innocence» Gia Rigvava «Small transparencies» May Dmitrij Kozir «Old stories which were told on new way» April Anatolij Zuravlev «Photos of flowers» March Semiuse Farrel «Time in the end» March Konstantin Latishev «Various works» February Sergei Volkov «Diary» 1996 December Sergei Shutov «Moon,moon» October Oleg Maslov, Victor Kuznetsov September Michail Ukhov, Stas Shuripa, Peter Filippov «UraNovijProect» July Valerij Urlov «1959 – 1961» June Konstantin Latishev «Hits» May Haike Hammen «Berlin in Moscow festival program» April Photobiennale ’96. Croup exhibition. A.Zuravlev, S.Shutov, A.Yahnin, S.Volkov, M.Mikhalchuk, G.Abramishvili, O.Tobreluts Mach Gia Abramishvili, Andrej Yahnin «Wind project» February Anatolij Zuravlev. Personal exhibition. January Olga Tobreluts «Imperial reflections» 1995 December Michail Mihkalchuk «Multiportrait» October «Copyright – 96» Group exhibition. Curator E.Kouprina September Konstantin Latishev. Personal exhibition. August Sergei Shutov «Katia» May Cristina Dihgans . Balchug –Kempinsky Hotel. Timur Novikov «The Swan song of German romantism» 1994 December «Drawings» Group exhibition. Curator E.Kouprina 1993 November Christo «Litography» June Sergej Volkov «Dusty models» April Group exhibition. Central House of artists. Moscow March Topolskij D. and I. 1992 September Cristiano Pintaldi July First group exhibition. Gia Abramishvili, Andrei Besukladnikov, Sergei Volkov, Sergei Mironenko, Gor Chakhal |
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